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“There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.”

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“We've all done things we regret. Sometimes, it's part of discovering who we're really meant to be. It's not what brings us down that lasts, you see. It's what we do after to make it right--that is the true measure of a friend...hero...whatever path you wish to take.”

Book:Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation, Vol. 3

Source: Jim Henson's Labyrinth: Coronation, Vol. 3

“Yes, I wanted epic love. Weak-in-the-knees, movie-kiss-in-the-rain epic love. What I never realized, not up until this very moment, is that I got it--everything I'd been asking for. My life has been filled with magical moments, I was just so busy waiting I didn't see them when they were here.”

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Book:Expiration Dates

Source: Expiration Dates

“Blacking out can be a symptom of shame-based disease," I imagined she would say. "Maybe you've been infected by regret.”

Regret Shame Addiction

Book:My Year of Rest and Relaxation

Source: My Year of Rest and Relaxation

“You have a million possibilities open to you, but in the end you need to make a commitment, or you stay in a holding pattern of indecision and nothingness forever.”

Regret Commitment Possibilities Indecision

Author:Steven John Wilson

“Well, I'm living in a foreign country, but I'm bound to cross the line Beauty walks a razor's edge, someday I'll make it mine If I could only turn back the clock to when God and her were born "Come in," she said, "I'll give ya shelter from the storm." [from 'Shelter from the Storm' 1975]”

Regret Estrangement Expat

Author:Bob Dylan

“We are all living, at most, half of a life. There was the life that you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen. And sometimes, this other life felt as palpable as the one you were living.”

Regret Choice Existentialism Introspection Duality What Ifs Life Paths Alternate Lives

Book:Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

Source: Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow

“I open my eyes and draw a cleansing breath. "I'll try, but regret is tricky." Her smile dims. "It is. It can hollow you out and steal years from your life. It's also useless. It's done. The question now is where to go from here.”

Inspirational Regret Reg Forgivenessinspirational

Author:Auburn Tempest and Michael Anderle

“This will serve as a foretaste to that torment of hell which consists in having to review one's entire life with the knowledge that comes of hindsight, where the worst thing is not the confrontation with obvious misdeeds but with deeds one once considered worthy.”

Book:Letters to Milena

Source: Letters to Milena

“...all fools give up good things. We look at our hands and wonder what we could hold if they were empty.”

Sacrifice Regret Regrets Fools Empty Hands

Book:Water Moon

Source: Water Moon

“Today he had on a silver-gray tweed suit that matched his silver-streaked hair, and a bright blue tie the color of his eyes. He was heavier than he used to be but he still had a mischievous grin which appeared now and again. They made an attractive couple-but they were not a couple, and the fact that they looked and acted like one was what made her so sad. She took his arm as they walked into Windfield School, and she thought she would give her soul to be with him every day.”

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Book:A Dangerous Fortune

Source: A Dangerous Fortune