Best regret & pleasure Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“Career is the stringing together of opportunities and jobs. Mix in public opinion and past regrets. Add a dash of future panic and a whole lot of financial uncertainty. Career is something that fools you into thinking you are in control and then takes pleasure in reminding you that you aren't. Career is the thing that will not fill you up and will never make you truly whole.”

Thinking Whole Together Jobs Past Opportunity Pleasure Opinion Careers Regret Fool Anxiety Add Financial Uncertainty Panic Public Opinion Reminding Past Regrets

Book:Yes Please

Source: Yes Please

“Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them.”

Way Looks Left Enjoy Pleasure Behinds Regret Anticipation Uneasy Disagreeable Languish

Book:The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

Source: The miscellaneous works of Oliver Goldsmith

“The memories which come to us through music are not accompanied by any regrets; for a moment music gives us back the pleasures it retraces, and we feel them again rather than recollect them.”

Giving Feels Moments Memories Pleasure Music Regret

Author:Madame de Stael

“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

“For a well-made cup of coffee is the proper beginning to an idle day. Its aroma is beguiling, its taste is sweet; yet it leaves behind only bitterness and regret. In that, it resembles, surely, the pleasures of love.”

Wells Made Pleasure Behinds Sweet Regret Taste Coffee Cups Bitterness Idle Coffee Cup Aroma

Author:Anthony Capella

“The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.”

Persons Pleasure Doors Regret Favors Quitting Smallest

Book:Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Collected Works of William Hazlitt (Illustrated)

“Did any man at his death ever regret his conflicts with himself, his victories over appetite, his scorn of impure pleasure, or his sufferings for righteousness' sake?”

Men Suffering Pleasure Regret Victory Conflict Sake Selfishness Righteousness Appetite Scorn

Book:(407 p.)

Source: (407 p.)

“O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.”

Ifs Age Hours Pleasure Regret Birthday I Regret 60th Birthday

Author:Jean-Jacques Rousseau

“And some of your elders remember pleasures with regret like wrongs committed in drunkenness. But regret is the beclouding of the mind and not its chastisement. They should remember their pleasures with gratitude, as they would the harvest of a summer.”

Should Mind Remember Pleasure Regret Gratitude Summer Committed Harvest Elders Drunkenness Chastisement

Book:The Prophet - Der Prophet

Source: The Prophet - Der Prophet

“Nothing but Christianity will give you the victory. Until a man believes in his heart that Jesus Christ is his Lord and Master... his course through life will be neither safe nor pleasant. My only regret is that I was so long blinded by my pleasures, my vices and pursuits, and the examples of others that I was kept fr...om seeing, admiring, and adoring the marvelous light of the gospel.”

“It isn't the great big pleasures that count the most; it's making a great deal out of the little ones--I've discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now. Not to be for ever regretting the past, or anticipating the future; but to get the most that you can out of this very instant.”

Littles Bigs Past Pleasure Deals Secret Regret Instant Daddy Live In The Now Anticipating The Future

Book:Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

Source: Daddy-Long-Legs and Dear Enemy

“Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.”

Knows Men Believe Pleasure Regret Civilized Believe In Me Uncivilized

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts

“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

“It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.”

Loss Sin Pleasure Regret Repent

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Happiness is pleasure without regret”

Pleasure Regret

Author:Leo Tolstoy

“I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.”

Should Doe Moments Pleasure Regret Don't Regret

Book:The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

Source: The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis,

“Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.”

World Long Hard Stories Past Desire Asks Realizing Pleasure Worry Forever Regret Bears Sorrow Highest Possession Hypocrite Good Story Momentary

Book:Red Earth and Pouring Rain

Source: Red Earth and Pouring Rain

“To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.”

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.”

Ifs Want Reading Loss Pleasure Company Fashion Regret Entertainment Variety Expensive Lasting Closets Amused Diversion Reading Aloud

Book:The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

Source: The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes

“The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.”

Done Body Action Sin Pleasure Regret Remains Luxury Recollection Purification

Book:The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)

“Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?”

Years Age Pain Pleasure Forever Middle Youth Regret Return Ten Aging Shoulders Pretending Middle Ages Pain And Pleasure

Book:Books and Men

Source: Books and Men

“We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.”

Left Pleasure Regret Experience

Author:Philibert Joseph Roux

“One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic”

World Would Be Pleasure Knowing Regret Sitting Down And Fantastic Bother Sitting Down Diving Cafes

Author:J. K. Rowling

“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”

Pleasure Regret Eggs Remorse I Regret

Author:William Cowper

“Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.”

Source: Italy, a Poem

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