On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back now on having been the fine artist I might have been. Eugene ONeill
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
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Sarah Addison Allen
Benj had once said, "A man must have a care to what he puts in his mind, for when he's alone on a hillside and draws it out he'll want treasures to be his company, not regrets.
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Elizabeth Yates
It's too late. I chose life too late.
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Cat Clarke
Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections....
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Emma Jung
The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.
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Germaine Greer
More Quotes By Eugene ONeill
Happy roads is bunk. Weary roads is right. Get you nowhere fast. That's where I've got–nowhere. Where everyone lands in the end, even if most of the suckers won't admit it.
It was a great mistake, my being born a man, I would have been much more successful as a seagull or a fish. As it is, I will always be a stranger who never feels at home, who does not really want and is not...
There is no present or future-only the past, happening over and over again-now.
Censorship of anything, at any time, in any place, on whatever pretense, has always been and always will be the last resort of the boob and the bigot.
Why am I afraid to live, I who love life and the beauty of flesh and the living colors of earth and sky and sea? Why am I afraid of love, I who love love?.. Why was I born without a skin, O God, that...
