Julian Baggini Quotes

A life once spent is irrevocable. It will remain to be contemplated through eternity. If it be marked with sins, the marks will be indelible. If it has been a useless life, it can never be improved. Such it will stand forever and ever. The same may be said of each day.

I never wish death on nobody, cause there ain't coming back from that.

After a while I started to think of that as an image of something that went a lot deeper than the dead dog, which is you can't bring back anything to life.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

We don’t get to replay history.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

But what had happened, had happened, and it was no longer possible to right anything.

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all your Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all your Tears wash out a Word of it.

I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.

There's nothing half so real in life as the things you've done... inexorably, unalterably done.

Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience. Because of impatience we were driven out of Paradise, because of impatience we cannot return.

Integration will not bring a man back from the grave.

You don't get many do-overs in life.

That's the thing about interviews, at some point you're going to change your mind. But it's there forever and you can't escape it.

What's done can't be undone.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

We have made mistakes. In our haste to do all things for all people, we did not foresee the full consequences of our actions. And when the people raised their voices, we didn't hear. But our deafness was only a temporary condition, and not an irreversible condition.

You can't take back an act you were able to think.

Presidents don’t get to do do-overs!

There are no deliverers. They're all dead.

Once the toothpaste is out of the tube, it's hard to get it back in.

It is only the dead who do not return.

There's some bells you can't unring.

I'm only human. I can't change the past.