Best sadness & regret Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world.”

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Author:Melissa Brown

“While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.”

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Author:Frank Luntz

“Better by far you should forget and smile than that you should remember and be sad.”

“For all sad words of tongue and pen, The saddest are these, 'It might have been'.”

“Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.”

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Book:Middlesex

Source: Middlesex

“And oh, god, how could so much regret and so much sweetness and so much sadness all be present in that single moment. I was already dead and missing my unlived life. I was already dead and Tobias was mourning. I tried to smile. For him.”

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Author:Katherine Applegate

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”

Ifs World Love Two Past Sadness Regret Misery I Regret Saddest Life Regret

Book:Exile's Valor

Source: Exile's Valor

“I notice the silvery hair at his temples with a tinge of sadness. Why do parents grow old? Life is a castle of lies slowly dismantled by the passage of time. I regret not spending more time looking at the people I love.”

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Author:Shan Sa

“But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal”

“I shall return, doubt it not. Such love as ours was not created to remain unfulfilled. Whatever may happen, believe and trust in me, as I shall in you, and keep the remembrance of me in your heart without sadness and without regret.”

Believe Heart May Happens Doubt Sadness Regret Return Remembrance

Book:The First Sir Percy

Source: The First Sir Percy

“All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.”

Source: The Power of Now: A Guide to Spiritual Enlightenment

“Never look back to the past, never regret, even if there is emptiness ahead.' But I couldn't help it. Sometimes I would rather look back if it meant that I could feel something in my heart, even something sad. Sadness was better than emptiness.”

Ifs Feels Looks Heart Sometimes Helping Past Sadness Regret My Heart Emptiness Never Regret

Author:Xiaolu Guo

“Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and hurt and anger often have to come up in order to be released. On the other side we're a better person, capable of a happier life...who we are when we're no longer burdened by the buried feelings that weighed us down, or the self - defeating patterns that the pain produced.”

“A brotherly person rejoices on my account when he approves me, but when he disapproves, he is loving me. To such people I will reveal myself. They will take heart from my good traits, and sigh with sadness at my bad ones. My good points are instilled by you and are your gifts. My bad points are my faults and your judgements on them. Let them take heart from the one and regret the other. Let both praise and tears ascend in your sight from brotherly hearts, your censers. ...But you Lord...Make perfect my imperfections.”

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Author:Saint Augustine

“The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live.”

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Book:A Million Little Pieces

Source: A Million Little Pieces

“Emotions, in my experience aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness," "joy," or "regret." I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions, Germanic traincar constructions like, say, "the happiness that attends disaster." Or: "the disappointment of sleeping with one's fantasy." ... I'd like to have a word for "the sadness inspired by failing restaurants" as well as for "the excitement of getting a room with a minibar." I've never had the right words to describe my life.”

Source: Middlesex

“A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.”

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Author:Ibn Ata Allah

“Guilt, regret, resentment, sadness & all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past & not enough presence.”

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Author:Eckhart Tolle

“No matter what you are dealing with in life, be it resentment or regret, bitterness or sadness, anger or apathy, hatred or hesitation, depression or disempowerment, disappointment or other destructive anxieties, painful envy or emotional turmoil, fear of isolation or thoughts of failure, keep in mind that if you are positive, positivity will find you and embrace you!”

“Even if death were to fall upon you today like lightning, you must be ready to die without sadness and regret, without any residue of clinging for what is left behind. Remaining in the recognition of the absolute view, you should leave this life like an eagle soaring up into the blue sky.”

Ifs Should Today Death Dies Fall Left Views Behinds Sadness Sky Ready Regret Absolutes Blue Recognition This Life Lightning Soar Left Behind Eagles Clinging Blue Sky Ready To Die

Author:Dilgo Khyentse Rinpoche

“When you don't flow freely with life in the present moment, it usually means that you're holding on to a past moment. It can be regret, sadness, hurt, fear, guilt, blame, anger, resentment, or sometimes even a desire for revenge. Each one of these states comes from a space of unforgiveness, a refusal to let go and come into the present moment. Only in the present moment can you create your future.”

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Author:Louise Hay

“If I cried me a river of all my confessions, would I drown in my shallow regret?”

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Author:Sarah McLachlan

“It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.”

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Author:Ani DiFranco

“I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.”

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Author:Garth Brooks

“There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.”

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Author:Sheryl Crow

“This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.”

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Book:Lord Jim

Source: Lord Jim

“And we'll act like some people mean nothing to us, but we don't live very long. When you get older, you'll see: a week with someone is enough to cry about for a lifetime.”

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Book:The Goodbye Song

Source: The Goodbye Song

“How I wish I could undo it all … take it all back… All those years I spent unhappy with him …. when I should have been looking for you.”

“You can miss places. You can miss people. Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back. They’re not the same. You’re not the same. The loss of them changed you.”

“...the things we don't have are sadder than the things we have. Because the things we don't have exist in our imaginations, where they are perfect.”

Desire Loss Dreams Sadness Regret

Book:Young Jane Young

Source: Young Jane Young

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