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“You were the one who said it was just a game.'' ''I lied.'' The words, a knife. ''You loved me,'' he says. ''And I loved you.”

Book:The Invisible Life of Addie LaRue

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“(They were happy, the two of them. I'd been a fool to come between them. I might destroy them both if I were not careful. A humble happiness. A good mother and a child. God, I thought, if you listen to the prayer of people like myself, grant me happiness once, only once in my whole lifetime will be enough! Hear my prayer!) I felt like getting down on my knees to pray then and there. I shut the door softly, went to the Ginza, and did not return to the apartment.”

Love Regret Depression Anxiety

Book:No Longer Human

Source: No Longer Human

“Father wept as he recalled that one spring day, when they shared for lunch the scabbard fish that Mom had cooked in the morning and, stomachs full, napped together, stretched out. He said that back then he didn't know that this was happiness.”

Happiness Regret Korea

Book:Please Look After Mom

Source: Please Look After Mom

“Go forward, sir. It's the only direction god permits.”

Regret

Book:The Mirror & the Light

Source: The Mirror & the Light

“That was what tortured him, that was what came over him when he saw Clarissa so calm, so cold, so intent on her dress or whatever it was; realising what she might have spared him, what she had reduced him to - a whimpering, snivelling old ass.”

Love Humor Regret Old Age

Book:Mrs. Dalloway

Source: Mrs. Dalloway

“There is no point in wasting away over what could’ve, should’ve been, because one cannot go back to find out the answer. We can only move forward, and make the best of the path we tread.”

Inspirational Life Lessons Regret

Book:Beyond the Gloaming Pass

Source: Beyond the Gloaming Pass

“In the American Regret Survey, twenty-year-olds had equal numbers of action and inaction regrets. But as people grew older, inaction regrets began to dominate. By age fifty, inaction regrets were twice as common as action regrets. Indeed, according to the data, age was by far the strongest predictor of regrets of inaction. When the universe of opportunities before them has dwindled (as it has with older folks), people seem to regret what they haven't done.”

Regret

Book:The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

Source: The Power of Regret: How Looking Backward Moves Us Forward

“We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear the most. Failure is an answer. Rejection is an answer. Regret is an eternal question you will never have the answer to. "What if...", "If only...", "I wonder what would have..." You will never, never know, and it will haunt you for the rest of your days.”

Regret Failure Rejection

Author:Trevor Noah

“Most of the time, when you regret something, you haven’t seen what the thing you regret can lead you to, if you let it.”

Hope Possibility Regret Looking Forward

Book:A Million Junes

Source: A Million Junes

“I was so focused on whether anyone would believe me, I didn't stop to think what might happen if they did.”

Regret Guilt Consequences Violet Fourth Wing Violet Sorrengail Rebecca Yarros Amber Mavis Being Believed

Book:Fourth Wing

Source: Fourth Wing

“We often throw away what we still have so as not to regret what we have already lost.”

Regret Regrets Wasted Time Past And Future

Author:Luigina Sgarro

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