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"I hurt myself deeply, though at the time I had no idea how securely. I should take learned many things from that feel, but when I wait back on information technology, all I gained was one unmarried, undeniable fact. That ultimately I am a person who tin can do evil. I never consciously tried to injure anyone, yet good intentions even so, when necessity demanded, I could become completely self-centred, even brutal. I was the kind of person who could, using some plausible alibi, inflict on a person I cared for a wound that would never heal."
― Haruki Murakami, Due south of the Edge, West of the Sun

"People volition walk in and walk out of your life, just the 1 whose stride made a long lasting impression is the 1 you should never let to walk out."
― Michael Bassey Johnson

"Nosotros're and so wrapped upward with egotistical things, career, family, having enough money, meeting the mortgage, getting a new car, fixing the radiator when it breaks—nosotros're involved in trillions of fiddling acts only to keep going. Then we don't become into the addiction of continuing dorsum and looking at our lives and saying, Is this all? Is this all I want? Is something missing?"
― Mitch Albom, Tuesdays with Morrie

"Remorse is a terrible affair to carry, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could wait dorsum on kindness to someone you dearest, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible affair."
― Enid Blyton, House at the Corner

"If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end yous are always more than tormented by what y'all didn't practice than what you did, deportment already performed tin can ever be rationalized in time, the neglected act might accept changed the world."
― Damon Galgut, In a Strange Room

"I don't know whether you can look at your by and detect, woven like the hidden symbols on a treasure map, the path that will point to your last destination."
― Jodi Picoult, Handle with Care

"بحثتُ عنكَ طويلاً...
تحت عجلات السيّارات؛
في الأزقَّة؛
فوق الأرصفة؛
في وجوه الغرباء؛
بينَ حقائب الراحلين؛
وألصقتُ صورتكَ في ظهري من الخلف:
(هذا الذي يدفعني إلى جنون مُميت دلُّوه إلى وجهي)"
― Nour Albawardi, النصف المضيء من الباب الموارب

"Life is our resume. It is our story to tell, and the choices we make write the chapters. Tin can we alive in a manner where we expect frontwards to looking back?"
― Matthew McConaughey, Greenlights

"The past may or may not be a foreign land. It may morph or lie even so, only its capital is e'er Regret, and what flushes through information technology is the grand culvert of unfledged desires that feed into an archipelago of tiny might-accept-beens that never really happened just aren't unreal for not happening and might still happen though we fright they never will. And I thought of Ole Brit holding back then much, as nosotros all do when we look back to see that the roads we've left behind or not taken have all but vanished. Regret is how we hope to dorsum into our existent lives one time we find the will, the blind bulldoze and courage, to trade in the life we're given for the life that bears our proper name and ours only. Regret is how we look forward to things we've long lost yet never really had. Regret is hope without conviction, I said. We're torn between regret, which is the price to pay for things non done, and remorse, which is the cost for having done them. Betwixt one and the other, time plays all its cozy little tricks."
― André Aciman, Enigma Variations

"The trouble with 'if just' is that it doesn't change anything. Information technology keeps the person facing the wrong style – backward instead of frontward. It wastes fourth dimension. In the end, if you permit it become a habit, information technology tin get a real roadblock – an excuse for not trying anymore."
― Arthur Gordon, A Touch of Wonder

"To look dorsum, to go back, is not to be weak. It is not to reopen wounds. It takes strength, it takes courage. Information technology takes a person who is more in control of who they are to bandage a discerning, non-judgmental center over who they in one case were."
― Cecelia Ahern, Postscript

"The only reason time seems to be moving rather fast is that sometimes we're as well busy living in the past."
― Dominic Riccitello

"What if I can't turn my head? I tin can look in any direction by turning my wheelchair, and I choose to look back. Rodman to the contrary nonetheless, that is the but direction we can larn from."
― Wallace Stegner, Angle of Repose

"Looking back, I have come up to realize that the gang lifestyle back then—the fame, the respect, and the recognition—was stronger and powerful than any drug. We were serious with what we were dealing with. Information technology was like a do or die state of affairs. Shelton 'Apples' Burrows reform gang leader"
― Drexel Deal, The Fight of My Life is Wrapped Upward in My Father

"Remember who was at that place for yous when you lot needed help."
― Mitta Xinindlu

"Memories. That's all I have left. Memories of all the good I've done and all the bad too."
― Arti Manani, Seven Sins

"The well-nigh overcrowded vessel is the i that sails on the golden body of water of memories."
― Stewart Stafford

"For so many lifetimes, he lived in a state of perpetual regret, returning obsessively and destructively to better times, to moments he wished he could alter. Most of those lives he lived staring into the rearview mirror."
― Blake Crouch, Recursion

"guilt and discontent are my inheritance
A stranger to acceptance, embarrassed past attention
I am stuck at forgotten crossroads
everything I remember turns to ashes when touched past sunlight"
― Nalini Priyadarshni

"Wie verändert blickt sie mich jetzt an, diese vergangene Zeit!"
― Adelbert von Chamissoo

"When it's a memory, you already know the issue, so we believe it was an easier time. Looking forwards is much more uncertain, so feels more than complicated. But I don't think it is. Not really."
― Karen Hawkins, The Book Charmer

"Me and Brian had a selection that day and nosotros made the incorrect fucking one and I knew it then—hell, even earlier it happened, I retrieve I knew it—and I sure as shit know it at present, especially now with my own trivial daughter looking upwards at me and so trusty-like and jumping into my arms like a little monkey."
― Thou.K. Edwards

"If I weighed my deportment further in the by, the regret might kill me."
― Flynn Drupe, Under the Harrow

"I wonder if this is the cease, thought Ducane, and if so what it volition all accept amounted to. How tawdry and small information technology has all been."
― Iris Murdoch, The Nice and the Good

"Y'all can only practise what you're capable of at the time."
― George Michael

"If she had answered him honestly she would have said this: To go back to the beginning. She would tell her xiii-yr-former-self not to visit the adult female. To her xx-five-year-old self: Find Simon, forgive him. She would tell herself to accept intendance of Klara, to sign up for JDate, to stop the nurse before she took the infant out of her artillery. She'd tell herself she would die, she would die, they all would. She would tell herself to pay attention to the smell of Klara's pilus, the feel of Daniel'southward arms as he reached down to hug her, Simon'south stubby thumbs- my God, their hands, all of them, Klara'southward hummingbird-quick, Daniel's slender and restless. She'd tell herself that what she really wanted was not to live forever, but to cease worrying."
― Chloe Benjamin, The Immortalists

"Always try to go on one eye in dorsum of your head"
― Will Leamon

"Funny how memories come up back - sometimes in dribs and drabs, sometimes in enormous sweeps."
― Sophie Kinsella, The Political party Crasher

"Terugblikken, zegt de man, dat is een fout in de logica van het heelal. De beste momenten duren hooguit één seconde, en dat herhaal je wel een miljoen keer in je kop, al dat gezeik tussendoor duurt jaaaaaaaaaaren. En dan nog eens gaan terugblikken ook zeker, de tijd nog eens nutteloos gaan verdubbelen en verlengen? Nee. Feestelijk bedankt."
― Saskia de Coster, Eeuwige roem

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