Kay Redfield Jamison Quotes

If I could undo what's been done, But I guess everyone is living, With water and bridges.

Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Regrets are so far from reality.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.

The dream is short, repentance long.

It is difficult to undo our own damage, and to recall to our presence that which we have asked to leave.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors. To dwell long upon them is to add to the offense.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

One cannot too soon forget his errors and misdemeanors for to dwell long upon them is to add to the offense, and repentance and sorrow can only be displaced by somewhat better, and which is as free and original as if they had not been.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

To mourn a mischief that is past and gone Is the next way to draw new mischief on.

People say time heals all wounds. Let me tell you, time heals nothing. You can do the wrong thing for 10 years and it doesn't equal the right thing for one day.

Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past.

Now here's a good one: you're lying on your deathbed. You have one hour to live. Who is it, exactly, you have needed all these years to forgive?

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

I mean, there's no point in sittin' around and cryin' about spilt milk. Gotta move on.

There's no use beating yourself up about what you can't change.