The Undone Quotes

All of us, whether guilty or not, whether old or young, must accept the past. It is not a case of coming to terms with the past. That is not possible. It cannot be subsequently modified or undone.

and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!

I like to keep my curiosity alive and question everything, and because I hate leaving something undone once I start it, I think far into the future.

Janie saw her life like a great tree in leaf with the things suffered, things enjoyed, things done and undone. Dawn and doom was in the branches

One thing alone not even God can do,To make undone whatever hath been done.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The road to love is littered by the bones of other ones, who by the magic of the moment were mysteriously undone.

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

When once enthusiasm has been turned into ridicule, everything is undone except money and power.

The ghosts swarm. They speak as one person. Each has left something undone.

A crowd flowed over London Bridge, so many, I had not thought death had undone so many.

With every word unspoken each moment comes undone.

If Terri was upset about how silly she would look, her mother was completely undone. Seems she wanted Terri in her full natural bloom, not with any blooming flower.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

Focusnot on the rudeness of others,not on what they've done or left undone,but on what you have done and have not doneyourself.

Dying was apparently a weaning process; all the attachments to familiar people and objects have to be undone.

An ingenuous mind feels in unmerited praise the bitterest reproof. If you reject it you are unhappy, if you accept it you are undone.

Humiliation and mental oppression by ignorant and selfish teachers wreak havoc in the youthful mind that can never be undone and often exert a baleful influence in later life.

A guilty mind can be eased by nothing but repentance; by which what was ill done is revoked and morally voided and undone.

Anyone that's involved in development has discovered that all the good work that's been done in development has been undone by the AIDS emergency.

The booby father craves a booby son, And by Heaven's blessing thinks himself undone.

Once the buttons are undone, you know how it'll all end. It's all in the game, there are no miracles.

Labor with what zeal we will, Something still remains undone, Something uncompleted still Waits the rising of the sun.

Even victors are by victories undone.

In my Lucia's absence Life hangs upon me, and becomes a burden; I am ten times undone, while hope, and fear, And grief, and rage and love rise up at once, And with variety of pain distract me.

Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.

Many with trust, with doubt few, are undone.

It is thy duty often times to do what thou wouldst not; thy duty too, to leave undone that thou wouldst do.

When the mothers start to shatter, then everything just comes undone.

I 'gin to be aweary of the sun, And wish th' estate o' th' world were now undone.

Leave undone whatever you hesitate to do.

I've seen too many comics who got their own shows and were undone because they worked for an executive producer who didn't understand their comedy or their sensibility.

Once the fabric of a just society is undone, it takes generations to weave it back together.

Beware of listening to this impostor; you are undone if you once forget that the fruits of the earth belong to us all, and the earth itself to nobody.

No single movie or event makes or breaks your career. Everything can be undone, including success.

Take two bodies and you twirl them into one, their hearts and their bones, and they won't come undone.

Tightly held by rocks Through winter, the ice today Begins to come undone: A way-seeker also is the water, Melting, murmuring from the moss.

Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.

For a thing to remain undone nothing more is needed than to think of it done.

When we love the stars light up, the wrong becomes undone. Naturally, my soul surrenders.

I like people more undone than made up. Patricia Arquette is the ultimate. She's not anorexic or perfectly tan, she's not trying to be anything but what she is, and that's the most sexy thing.

Do nothing, and leave nothing undone. ["Doing nothing" is what happens when the doer disappears, it isn't something that one does or chooses not to do.]

An evil deed is better left undone, for a man repents of it afterwards; a good deed is better done, for having done it, one does not repent.

Man is beginning to explore the galaxy. But how much remains undone on earth?

Without work men are utterly undone

i laced my shoes with sorrow and walked a weary road dead end streets don't come undone with double knots wing tipped shoes that walk on air through vacant lots

I don't miss another opportunity to try to do my best to finish the things I have left undone. I could say: It's my unresolved karma that wakes me up in the morning.

And lo, between the sundawn and the sun His day's work and his night's work are undone: And lo, between the nightfall and the light, He is not, and none knoweth of such an one.

Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.

All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.