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“Energy spent regretting a decision was best redirected toward addressing its consequences.”

Book:Empress of Forever

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Empress of Forever

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“Trust me, I know how it stings when someone tells you the truth about yourself. It’s like catching a glimpse of your reflection in a looking glass when you’re not prepared. Intolerable. I was furious when I read your pamphlet—but only because I knew it was the truth. I’d known it for some time. The reality set in somewhere around the Tropic of Capricorn. When I left you behind at Greenwillow Hall . . . I’d missed out.”

Regret Reflection Self Realization

Book:Lord Dashwood Missed Out

Source: Lord Dashwood Missed Out

“No death, no doom, no anguish can arouse the surpassing despair which flows from a loss of identity. - Through the Gates of the Silver Key”

Death Identity Despair Anguish Doom Identity Crisis

Book:The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

Source: The Dream-Quest of Unknown Kadath

“Saturday morning. Hung-over as fuck. The beer fear squirms through my belly with alien tendrils and I know with absolute certainty that I have done something unforgivable. Something apocalyptic. Again.”

Fiction Regret Murder Book Quotes Psychedelics Slice Of Life South African Novel Quote Hunter S Thompson Gritty Reads

Book:The Transkei Run: and the Times of High Strangeness

Source: The Transkei Run: and the Times of High Strangeness

“It had taken thirty years for me to understand that regrets do not dissipate, they do not abate into sadness—they harden until they have formed into a small fist that often rests quietly in the pit of your stomach but that can suddenly, and without warning, land a punch so powerful you are left doubled over in pain, gasping for breath.”

Regret

Book:How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

Source: How to Forget: A Daughter's Memoir

“I know I shouldn’t think this way, but I don’t feel it’s fair. If Imperial Father did give me the throne back then, today, the person in control of the country would be me. The endings of a few of my brothers definitely wouldn’t turn out this way. -14th Prince”

Power Regret Curious Throne

Book:Bu Bu Jing Xin/步步惊心

Source: Bu Bu Jing Xin/步步惊心

“I have squandered in one unintended jerk the string of pearls that was handed to me. And each pearl is lost in a dark corner that I knew not existed.”

Regret Missed Opportunity Missed Chance All Is Lost

Book:Game of Big Numbers

Source: Game of Big Numbers

“Mess me around and you will regret it.”

Regret Astronomy Mess Osha Altitude Mauna Kea Tmt Telescope Around

Author:Steven Magee

“Procrastination is driven by a presumption of regret.”

Regret Procrastination Drive Presumption

Author:Rayvern White

“Hindsight is always 20-20.”

Vision Regret Accuracy Hindsight Pun

Author:Unknown, The Canberra Times (1986)

“Killing another human being is not something you get used to. It takes away their life and subtracts something from your own, a fine layer of your humanity.”

Humanity Regret Murder Killing

Book:Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

Source: Operation Jihadi Bride: The Covert Mission to Rescue Young Women from ISIS

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