"Perhaps there is only one cardinal sin: impatience.……" — Wystan Hugh Auden

More Cannot Return Quotes

This quote is filed under Cannot Return Quotes, one of 15 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

• Insight cannot be taken back. You cannot return to the moment you were in before. — Hilary Mantel
• Child abuse and neglect offend the basic values of our state. We have a responsibility to provide safe settings for… — Matt Blunt
• A snapshot steals life that it cannot return. A long exposure [creates] a form that never existed. — Unknown Author
• Because of impatience we were driven out [of Paradise]; because of impatience we cannot return. — Franz Kafka
• Anyone who was a rebel at one time in life cannot return to being conventional. — Elsa Peretti
• Vanity is as ill at ease under indifference as tenderness is under a love which it cannot return. — George Eliot
• Well, I write in exile because I cannot return to my country, so I have no choice but to see… — Guillermo Cabrera Infante
• It is said that what is called "the spirit of an age" is something to which one cannot return. That… — Yamamoto Tsunetomo
• We are all a part of the divine spark. All have a purpose in creation and that purpose is called… — Paulo Coelho
• A leaf cannot return to the bud - bluestar to fireheart and greystripe — Erin Hunter
• There are places from which you cannot return. There is damage that can be irreparable. — James Frey
• We offer love to our customers. And in return, we receive the finest smiles. And even if we cannot return… — Bisco Hatori

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