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“Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.”

Life Long Matter Joy Desire Teaching Regret Sorrow Anguish Frail Sorrowful

Book:Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

Source: Gems from Sri Aurobindo, 2nd Series

“O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.”

Grief Regret Affection Anguish

Book:Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of George Eliot (Illustrated)

“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 a simple but sometimes forgotten truth that the greatest enemy to present joy and high hopes is the cultivation of retrospective bitterness.”

Sometimes Wisdom Truth Joy Hope Simple Enemy Regret Politician Forgotten Bitter Bitterness Anguish Gloom Cultivation Retrospective

Author:Robert Menzies

“How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.”

Left Walks Behinds Saws Crime Regret Scene Skins Slips Anguish Left Behind

Book:The Poisonwood Bible

Source: The Poisonwood Bible

“I have discovered in my long life that there are many words and phrases which have more power than any spell of magick. The most well-known of these is, of course, I love you. But by far the most deadly is, if only. For these two words can strip a man's strength, his courage and his confidence. They become the father of regret and anguish and pain.”

Ifs Men Wells Long Two Pain Courses Father Known Love You Regret Phrases Spells Well Known Anguish Long Life Most Well Known

Author:David Gemmell

“No words can describe the depths of my regret and pain at the anguish my mistakes over Watergate have caused the nation and the presidency - a nation I so deeply love and an institution I so greatly respect.”

War Pain Nations Mistake Regret Cold Institutions Depth Cold War Presidency Anguish My Mistakes Watergate

Author:Richard M. Nixon