Life Quote by Jess Walter

“It occurred to me that more than loss, it was the longing that hurt the most.”

— Samantha Young

“Occasionally weep deeply over the life you hoped would be. Grieve the losses. Then wash your face. Trust God. And embrace the life you…

— John Piper

“there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a day when you were happy ”

— Terry Brooks

“ We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than…

— A.S. Byatt

“Afterward I remembered these things very clearly, with that longing we feel sometimes to recover a state of life that we have lost for…

— Barry Unsworth

“aching and knowing that there was nothing worse in the whole, wide world than the death of hope.”

— Kristen Ashley

“Look forward. Every regret, every mournful thought, takes so much out of your life.”

— Prentice Mulford

“I regret that I am now to die in the belief, that the useless sacrifice of themselves by the generation of 1776, to acquire…

— Thomas Jefferson

“The more adversity we suffer in life, the more we savour the brief, rare periods of complete happiness and abandon.”

— Juliana Buhring

“Out of this sorrowful experience I understand more fully all human strivings, thwarted ambitions, and the infinite capacity of hope.”

— Helen Keller

“Hope made you infinitely more devastated in the face of disappointment.”

— Kristen Simmons

“There is a hopeless longing for nostalgia that pervades the human soul, a return to the warm glow of remembrance or some imagined past.”

— Deborah L. Norris