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Regret quotes

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“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.” William Shakespeare, “Macbeth” - 1623

“If one good deed in all my life I did, I do repent it from my very soul.” William Shakespeare, “Titus Andronicus” - 1594

“Droll thing life is—that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself—that comes too late—a crop of unextinguishable regrets.” Joseph Conrad, “Heart of Darkness” - 1899

“And once we decided to do something, we should never look back, never regret it.” Richard Branson, “Screw It, Let's Do It” - 2006

“You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don’t plan for it!” Tennessee Williams, “The Glass Menagerie” - 1944

“To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.” Oscar Wilde, “De Profundis” - 1905

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.” Oscar Wilde, “The Picture of Dorian Gray” - 1890

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William Shakespeare (2)
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