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“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

“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.”

Should May Facts Pain Past Causes Pay Regret Sorrow Conscience Vain Fingerprints

Author:Margaret Culkin Banning

“None has more frequent conversations with a disagreeable self than the man of pleasure; his enthusiasms are but few and transient; his appetites, like angry creditors, are continually making fruitless demands for what he is unable to pay; and the greater his former pleasures, the more strong his regret, the more impatient his expectations. A life of pleasure is, therefore, the most unpleasing life.”

Men Life Self Strong Pleasure Pay Greater He Man Regret Conversation Demand Expectations Angry Enthusiasm Former Appetite Impatient Transient Disagreeable Creditors

Author:James Goldsmith

“A sleep without dreams, after a rough day of toil, is what we covet most; and yet How clay shrinks back from more quiescent clay! The very Suicide that pays his debt at once without installments (an old way of paying debts, which creditors regret) Lets out impatiently his rushing breath, less from disgust of life than dread of death.”

Way Dream Sleep Pay Regret Breaths Suicide Debt Rough Dread Disgusting Toil Suicidal Clay Shrinks Rushing Old Ways Creditors Rough Day Paying Debts

Book:DON JUAN

Source: DON JUAN

“I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit up there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.”

People Should Looks Made Faces Decision Pay Willing Regret Please Truth Is Claims Your Face Judged

Author:Jack Bauer

“I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.”

Ifs Want Choices Pay Attention Careers Regret Independent Pay Attention Don't Regret Good Marriage Second Place

Author:Lauren Bacall

“Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.”

Winning Pay Regret Lottery Winning The Lottery

Author:Ryan North

“Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.”

Looks Life Is Pay Regret

Author:Zinedine Zidane

“I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears”

Ifs Knows Differences Pleasure Pay Tears Regret Slavery Painful Scar Medal Don't Regret High Prices Painful Times

Author:Paulo Coelho

“In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple.”

Has Beens Ends States Done Simple Deals Pay Mines Regret Fit All Things Shame Here I Am Pay The Price

Book:Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

Source: Brother Cadfael: The Complete Chronicles

“I will do today that which is of today and pay no heed to the tomorrow; nor waste regrets on that which was yesterday.”

Today Pay Secret Regret Tomorrow Waste Yesterday Heed

Author:Walter Russell

“Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.”

Universe Left Pay Regret Indifference Damage Sooner Or Later Stagnation

Author:Emile M. Cioran