Best regret & wonder 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

“It doesn't matter to me. I'm just worried. It's the first time I've see Teach like that. He said he had two regrets...Once, 20 years ago. And once when you hurt your wrist. He said he didn't ever want to regret again. I wonder what that means.”

Want Years Firsts Mean Said Two Matter Hurt Wonder Teach Regret Drama First Time Years Ago Worried Wrists

Author:Kim Su-mi

“At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder.”

Thinking Wonder Path Taken Regret Obsessed Sense Of Wonder Self Obsessed

Author:Ben Gibbard

“Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.”

Mind Memories Wonder Regret Breaths Surface Disappear Vivid Here And There Sinking Of My Mind Pebbles Firefly Quicksand Vignettes

Author:Susan Kay

“When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget.”

Thinking Should I Can Sometimes Remember Forget Wonder Gone Regret Glad Should I Sigh Sprouts Better Days Remember Something

Book:The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

Source: The Poetical Works of Jean Ingelow

“O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist; Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.”

Hands Water Wonder Regret Staring Plunge Wrists

Author:W. H. Auden

“When we enter the present moment deeply, our regrets and sorrows disappear, and we discover life with all its wonders.”

Moments Wonder Regret Sorrow Disappear Present Moment

Book:Happiness (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

Source: Happiness (EasyRead Comfort Edition)

“I was raised to give back. I was born to immigrant parents and was fortunate to become successful at an early age. I've always felt a strong sense of national service to my country, and I may have been able to provide leadership in the political arena. I don't regret the decision not to enter politics, I just wonder sometimes if I could have changed anything.”

“I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.”

Made I Can Would Be Mistake Wonder Regret Standing Don't Regret

Book:This Lullaby

Source: This Lullaby

“Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.”

Way Feels Littles Made Stills I Can Turns Fall Hours Forget Wonder Our Lives Fate Regret Right Now Can Not Twists Feels Right

Author:Rob Thomas

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”

Ifs Knows Way Firsts Has Beens Feelings Might Happens Wonder Regret Findings Shoulders Looking Back Ignored Might Have Been Message In A Bottle Letter In A Bottle

Author:Nicholas Sparks

“she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do”

Ifs Feels Wonder Regret

Author:Deb Caletti

“She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.”

Ifs Said Asks Wonder Failing Regret Asking

Author:Laurell K. Hamilton

“When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine.”

Trying Looks May Has Beens Used Stuff Wonder Regret Fine Friendly Warning

Book:The Funny Thing Is...

Source: The Funny Thing Is...

“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.”

People Ifs Heart Said Motivational Wonder Regret My Heart Individuality Uniqueness I Regret Life Regret

Author:Brittany Finamore

“But there's no way to avoid regret. Don't let anybody tell you different. Regret is just life's aftertaste. No matter what you choose, you're gonna wonder if you shoulda done things different. I didn't necessarily choose wrong. I just chose. And I lived with my choice, aftertaste and all.”

Ifs Way Different Matter Done Choices Wonder Regret No Matter What You Choose

Author:Amy Harmon

“Compare the emotional vocabulary available to a leader (confidence, satisfaction, indignation) with the emotions not permitted (regret, embarrassment, dread, angst, mortification, anger, surprise, wonder, doubt), and it becomes apparent why perfectly normal people, upon entering public life, transform into cartoons - because they are not free to express what a normal person would feel in their situation.”

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