Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

Dante Gabriel Rossetti

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I will keep no further journal of that same hesternal torch‐light ; and, to prevent me from returning, like a dog, to the vomit of memory, I tear out the remaining leaves of this volume...

Lord Byron

Tags: writing dogs memory vomit regret throwing-away



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When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?

What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a lot of thought.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And Gamache thought he had the answer.

Regret.

Regret for things said, for things done, and not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

Finally, when he was alone, the Chief Inspector had opened the sack and looking inside had realize he'd been wrong. The worst thing of all wasn't regret.

Louise Penny

Tags: haunted regret deathbed



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I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

Lillian Hellman

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Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life." Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle

Leah Braemel

Tags: love decisions heart regret over-thinking



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The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn your soul deceased.

Roman Payne

Tags: regret lament drunk dionysus roman debauchery payne partying crepuscule drunkeness



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When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.

Criss Jami

Tags: certainty persistence belief confidence faith humility attitude perseverance definition pride regret apology regrets faithfulness conviction willpower apology-and-attitude



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...tout compte fait, je crois que mon tort était de ne pas avoir eu le courage de mes convictions. Je pouvais me trouver toutes les excuses du monde, aucune d'elles ne me donnerait raison. En réalité maintenant que j'avais perdu la face , je me cherchais un masque. Pareil à un défiguré, je me cachais derrière mes pansements qui me servaient aussi de moucharabiehs. Je regardais en cachette la vérité des autres, en abusais pour distancer la mienne

Yasmina Khadra

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My biggest regret is what I didn’t say… (Jake)

Keary Taylor

Tags: life lesson sad regret



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She knew this man's smile, his gentle ways of love, but not his godlike fury in the storm. She might snare him in a fragile net of music, love and flowers, but, at each departure, he would break forth without, it seemed to her, the least regret.

Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Tags: love music regret antoine-de-saint-exupery night-flight



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