Best loss & regret Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“There is not unmitigated ill in the sharpest of this world's sorrows; I touch not the sore of thy guilt; but of human griefs I counsel thee, Cast off the weakness of regret, and gird thee to redeem thy loss: Thou has gained, in the furnace of affliction, self-knowledge, patience and humility, And these be as precious ore, that waiteth the skill of the coiner: Despise not the blessings of adversity, nor the gain thou hast earned so hardly, And now thou hast drained the bitter, take heed that thou lose not the sweet.”

Source: Tupper's Poetical Works: Proverbial Philosophy, A Thousand Lines, Hactenus

“A state of skepticism and suspense may amuse a few inquisitive minds. But the practice of superstition is so congenial to the multitude that, if they are forcibly awakened, they still regret the loss of their pleasing vision.”

Ifs Mind May Stills States Loss Vision Practice Atheism Regret Positive Atheism Suspense Superstitions Skepticism Multitudes Awakened Inquisitive Inquisitive Minds

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.”

Sometimes Loses Loss Grief Greater Regret Friends

Author:Francois de La Rochefoucauld

“When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.”

Dies Loss Sin Grief Pay Regret Thousand One You Love Someone You Love Piercings

Author:Simone de Beauvoir

“To lovers of the long and intricate history of language the disuse and final death of certain words is a matter of regret. Yet every age bears witness to the inevitableness of such loss.”

Long Matter Age Certain Language Loss Regret Bears Lovers Finals Witness Intricate

Author:Mary Ellen Chase

“Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.”

May Feelings Loss Grief Regret Sorrow Longing Grieving Tension Emptiness Appetite Anguish Mixtures Exhaustion Deprivation Sleeplessness

Book:The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

Source: The Courage to Grieve: The Classic Guide to Creative Living, Recovery, and Growth Through Grief

“It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.”

Want Mind Long Loss History Regret Habit Occupation Roman Empire

Book:The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Source: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

“Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.”

“A profound knowledge of life is the least enviable of all species of knowledge, because it can only be acquired by trials that make us regret the loss of our ignorance.”

Life Is Loss Ignorance Regret Profound Species Trials

Book:Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

Source: Desultory Thoughts and Reflections

“Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.”

Ifs May Long Care Time Given Loss Regret Eternity Take Care Our Time

Author:Francois Fenelon

“There are two types of pain. There is the pain of loss, which you can recover. And then, there is the pain of regret which never goes away.”

Two Pain Loss Regret Type

Author:Donovin Darius

“Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it.”

Men Done Loss Regret Management Neglect Assets Time Management

Author:Voltaire

“In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made”

Made Self Age Pain Loss Middle Regret Sorrow Passionate Conclusion Bitter Middle Ages Disillusionment Self Made

Book:Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

Source: Hands Full of Living: Talks with American Women

“It's easier to forget the past if nothing ever reminds you of those leathery old scars that can never again feel any loss or pain; the old wounds must be kept open if you are going to remember their cause and regret their occurrence.”

Ifs Feels Pain Past Remember Causes Loss Forget Regret Easier Wounds Scar Forget The Past Old Wounds

Author:Peter Robinson

“I found myself sitting at the computer, and I thought I was going to write a kind of simple nostalgic story about two boys and their love of kite fighting. But stories have a will of their own, and this one turned out to be this dark tale about betrayal, loss, regret. The short story which was about 25 pages long sat around for a couple of years.”

Writing Years Kind Long Two Stories Fighting Found Dark Loss Simple Boys Regret Couple Computer Pages Sitting Betrayal Tales Sat Short Story Nostalgic Kites

Author:Khaled Hosseini

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”

Way Stories Loss Journey Regret Garden Misery Glasses Paradise Yearning Twisted

Book:The Blind Assassin

Source: The Blind Assassin

“We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.”

Use Loss Regret Spurs

Book:The Pool of Fire

Source: The Pool of Fire

“L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?”

Men Reason Joy Imagination Loss Regret Infinite Delight My Imagination Recovering Lice

Author:Gerard De Nerval

“There is a longing for a return to a time without the need for choices, free of the regret at the inevitable loss that all choice (however wonderful) has entailed.”

Needs Choices Loss Wonderful Regret Return Longing Inevitable

Book:On Love: A Novel

Source: On Love: A Novel

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

Happiness Loss Worst Regret Personality Habit Essentials

Book:The Picture Of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture Of Dorian Gray

“let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.”

Feels Happens Form Black Realizing Loss Grief Fire Regret Like You Sorrow Taste Angel Let Me Fingers Spread Cooks Substance Thick Ashes Dip Dissolving Syrup

Author:Jodi Picoult

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