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• I usually say I did the best I could with what I had. I have no major regrets.

  Stokely Carmichael

  No Regrets, Majors

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• Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

  Kathy Griffin

  Mouths, I Regret, Deals

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• The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you.

  Liza Minnelli

  Yesterday, Tomorrow

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• I don't regret it, you know. I would do it all again. Children are our hope for the future." THERE IS NO HOPE FOR THE FUTURE, said Death. "What does it contain, then?" ME.

  Terry Pratchett

  Children, Doe, Said

  Terry Pratchett (2009). “Sourcery: (Discworld Novel 5)”, p.15, Random House

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• I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.

  Ayn Rand

  Emptiness, Moments, Fountainhead

  Ayn Rand (2005). “The Fountainhead”, p.524, Penguin

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• Instead of things I'm good at, it might be faster to list the things I can't do. I can't cook or clean the house. My room's a mess, and I'm always losing things. I love music, but I can't sing a note. I'm clumsy and can barely sew a stitch. My sense of direction is the pits, and I can't tell left from right half the time. When I get angry, I tend to break things. Plates and pencils, alarm clocks. Later on I regret it, but at the time I can't help myself. I have no money in the bank. I'm bashful for no reason, and I have hardly any friends to speak of.

  Haruki Murakami

  House, Half, Might

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• The memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.

  Marcel Proust

  Memories, Moments, Particular

  Marcel Proust (1982). “Remembrance of Things Past: Swann's way. Within a budding grove”, Vintage

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• There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do? Morrie Schwartz

  Mitch Albom

  Pride, Vanity, Vengeance

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• But she never looked back with regret. There were so many ways for things to get better. -Jing-mei

  Amy Tan

  Get Better, Way, Joy Luck Club

  Amy Tan (2006). “The Joy Luck Club: A Novel”, p.102, Penguin

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• Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

  Jeffrey Eugenides

  Believe, Sadness, Joy

  Jeffrey Eugenides (2003). “Middlesex”, p.217, A&C Black

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• It is strange,' pursued he, 'that while I love Rosomond Oliver so wildly-with all the intensity, indeed, of a first passion, the object of which is exquisitely beautiful, graceful, and fascinating--I experience at the same time a calm, unwarped consciousness, that she would not make me a good wife; that she is not the partner suited to me; that I should discover this within a year after marriage; and that to twelve months' rapture would succeed a lifetime of regret. This I know.

  Charlotte Bronte

  Beautiful, Passion, Years

  Charlotte Bronte (2013). “Jane Eyre”, p.399, Simon and Schuster

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• The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee.

  Emily Dickinson

  Flower, Lovely, Bees

  Emily Dickinson, Thomas Herbert Johnson, Theodora Ward (1986). “The Letters of Emily Dickinson”, p.907, Harvard University Press

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• To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Football, Thinking, Waiting

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• No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

  Holly Black

  Night, Trouble, Said

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

  James Joyce

  Clouds, Leaving, Mind

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it.

  Lynsay Sands

  Sorry, Inspiration, Add

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• Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Past, Looks, Emptiness

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• I regret how much I believed in the future.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  I Regret

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• The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mistake, Made, Live By

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2006). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, p.362, Penguin UK

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• The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

  Jim Butcher

  Past, Different, Gone

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.314, Penguin

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• One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Sweet, Kissing, Opportunity

  Sharon M. Draper (2011). “The Battle of Jericho”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going.

  Emily Giffin

  New Year, Fun, Mean

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Home, Numbers, Should Have

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• Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

  Ian Mcewan

  Gratitude, Men, Profound

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, March 11, 2010.

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• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Night, People, Joy

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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