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“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live”

May Country Dies Regret Ought Citizens Thousand Hundred Virtuous

Author:Maximilien Robespierre

“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

“I've thought about it more than a thousand times. It was a thousand times worse, so I suppressed it, I suppressed it to death. The moment that I heard that Meahri was leaving, I thought the world was ending because at that moment, I was full of regret. I was avoiding, not thinking, and pretending it wasn't what my heart was hoping for earlier. I'm sorry, because I've made Meahri cry so many times. I'll do well. I'll take care of her forever. Tae-sang, this is my first and last request of you. Just this once, forgive me.”

“What is there to regret? I'm a committed Nazi, and if I had to be born a thousand times over, I would be a thousand times what I have been.”

Ifs Has Beens Would Be Born Regret Thousand Committed Nazi

Author:Klaus Barbie

“In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.”

Life Years Humans Doe Moments Lost Hours History Regret Thousand Human Life Novelists Thousand Years Single Life Don't Regret Life Regret

Author:Stefan Zweig

“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

“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”

Ready Regret Thousand Statements

Author:Hermann Hesse

“She raced for him, propelled by the strength of a thousand regrets.”

Running Regret Thousand

Book:Monster High

Source: Monster High

“And I never started to plow in my life That some one did not stop in the road And take me away to a dance or picnic. I ended up with forty acres; I ended up with a broken fiddle— And a broken laugh, and a thousand memories, And not a single regret.”

Memories Laughing Regret Broken Thousand Forty Take Me Acres Picnics Fiddle Take Me Away

Book:Spoon River Anthology

Source: Spoon River Anthology

“Return to Shaoshan I regret the passing, the dying, of the vague dream: my native orchards thirty-two years ago. Yet red banners roused the serfs, who seized three-pronged lances when the warlords raised whips in their black hands. We were brave and sacrifice was easy and we asked the sun, the moon, to alter the sky. Now I see a thousand waves of beans and rice and am happy. In the evening haze heroes are coming home.”