Best regret & grief Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.”

Source: Life After God

“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

“The way to experience ultimate happiness is to let go of all worries and regrets, and to know that being happy is the most satisfying of life's feelings. Reflect back on all the progress in your life and allow the positive, creative and joyous thoughts to outshine and overwhelm any sorrow or grief that may linger in the recesses of your mind. Knowing that disease and disaster are natural parts of life is the key to overcoming adversity with a calm and happy spirit. Happiness is waiting there in front of you. Only you can decide whether or not you choose to experience it. Take this to heart.”

“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

“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)

“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

“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

“One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.”

Dream Deals Grief Regret Fruit Buried

Author:Abigail McCarthy

“Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.”

“For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine the gall Of all regret. Mine was the weight Of every brooded wrong, the hate That stood behind each envious thrust, Mine every greed, mine every lust. And all the while for every grief, Each suffering, I craved relief With individual desire, – Craved all in vain! And felt fierce fire About a thousand people crawl; Perished with each, — then mourned for all!”

Source: Renascence and Other Poems

“She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?”

Way Firsts Said Desire Night Grief Emotion Heard Expression Regret Kissing First Time Longing Storm Setting Boat Settings Remembered Sand Awkward Bye Good Bye Docks Conflicting Emotions

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“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

“Personally of course I regret everything. Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need, not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy, not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust, not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear, not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly. An ordure, from beginning to end.”

Needs Ends Faces Joy Girl Courses Names Grief Boys Doubt Tears Regret Deeds Lust Scorn I Regret Fear Not

Book:Watt

Source: Watt

“The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.”

Felt Grief Known Boys Regret Dating Wiser Humiliation Jane

Author:Beverly Cleary

“Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.”

Enough Grief Trouble Regret

Book:Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of Vincent van Gogh (Illustrated)

“A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories.”

“Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.”

Life Life Is Grief Regret Nonsense Bullshit Too Short Life Is Short No Regrets Life Is Too Short Short Life Never Regret Anything

Book:A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

Source: A Voice Crying in the Wilderness

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

Ifs Want Needs Desire Grief Sadness Regret Broken Higher Hatred Shame Calm Rage No Fear Fury No Regrets Hold Me No Anger Live Without Fear

Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

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