“If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.” IfsShowsBigsSunWrittenRegretHugeBrokenKingsScenePerfectionSpotsGreekDefectsStatuesMonstrousLear Author:Fernando Pessoa
“Among those today who believe that modern poetry must do without rhyme or metre, there is an assumption that the alternative to free verse is a crash course in villanelles, sestinas and other such fixed forms. But most... are rare in English poetry. Few poets have written a villanelle worth reading, or indeed regret not having done so.” BelieveDoneTodayFormCoursesReadingWrittenModernPoetRegretAlternativesFixedAssumptionVersesCrashRhymeWorth ReadingFree VerseModern PoetryEnglish Poetry Author:James Fenton
“The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot and coincidentally we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.” PersonsRunningStuffPartyWrittenRegretMilesGood FriendI RegretPhoto Shoots Author:Nile Rodgers
“A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.” EnoughStoriesMemoriesWrittenRegretPrisonTalesLandscape Author:Brunonia Barry
“If the only significant history of human thought were to be written, it would have to be the history of its successive regrets and its impotences.” IfsHumansWrittenRegretSignificantImpotenceHuman ThoughtMyth Of Sisyphus Book:The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays Source: The Myth of Sisyphus: And Other Essays
“The act of sending a letter is an act of generosity, even if, in retrospect, it might seem reckless. Why regret one's generosity? Why regret one's impulsiveness, one's misjudgment of others? The inevitable discovery that someone is selling letters you'd written in trust is simply to discover an obvious human truth: there are those who don't cherish us as we'd cherished them, and had wished to be cherished by them.” IfsHumansSeemsMightWrittenRegretDiscoveryLettersObviousSellingGenerosityInevitableCherishRecklessRetrospect Author:Joyce Carol Oates
“It’s not just other people we need to forgive. We also need to forgive ourselves. For all the things we didn’t do. All the things we should have done. You can’t get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. I always wished I had done more with my work; I wished I had written more books. I used to beat myself up over it. Now I see that never did any good. Make peace. You need to make peace with yourself and everyone around you.” PeopleNeedsShouldBookDoneUsedWrittenHappenedRegretBeatsShould HaveForgivingStuckOver ItMaking Peace Author:Mitch Albom
“More than any of us, she had written her own story; yet she could not wash it out with all her tears, return to her victims what she had torn from them, and by so doing, save herself.” StoriesWrittenTearsRegretReturnVictimTorn Author:Sandra Worth
“I have long dreaded the thought of getting to the end of life and regretting that I allowed my own timidity or other people's expectations to determine the course of my life. I had decided at a much younger age that several of my beliefs should determine the course of my life...I...believe that Waengongi, the Creator, has an epic script into which my minute presence has been written.” PeopleShouldBelieveLongHas BeensEndsAgeCoursesBeliefI BelieveMy OwnWrittenMinutesRegretExpectationsDecidedScriptsDetermineCreatorEpicEnd Of LifeTimidity Book:End of the Spear Source: End of the Spear