The Undone Quotes

What's done can't be undone, but at least you can keep it from happening again.

What is done can never be undone.

It's the worst part of seeing old friends: when your rose-colored memories become undone by reality.

When the world frowns, we can face it; but let it smile, and we are undone.

O let me be undone the common way, And have the common comfort to be pity'd, And not be ruin'd in the mask of bliss, And so be envy'd, and be wretched too!

At work you worry over the family at home. At home you fret over work left undone. Behold the working woman's stress.

I know I'm sane I don't give a care for the crown or the shield I will not protect you or happily yield To the one who makes me come undone

More things are left undone through neglect of duty than through neglect of self-interest.

I was undone by my Auxiliary; when I had once called him in, I could not subsist without Dependance on him.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

Impatience is not the least of your faults, Malik, it is a kind of greed and someday it may see you undone.

There are certain people who so ardently and passionately desire a thing, that from dread of losing it they leave nothing undone to make them lose it.

If we don't go far enough fast enough, the damage we inflict could take centuries to undo - if it can be undone at all.

To comprehend a man's life, it is necessary to know not merely what he does but also what he purposely leaves undone.

Scrutamini scripturas (Let us look at the scriptures). These two words have undone the world.

We all start out so damn sure, thinking we've got the world on a string. If we ever stopped to think about the infinite number of ways we could be undone, we'd never leave our bedrooms.

As so often happens, the thing left undone tires you most of all, you only feel rested when it has been accomplished.

We are usually undone by our lack of understanding of ourselves.

Authentic spirituality... does not render the self content, it renders it undone.

If you practice inaction, nothing will be left undone: For the way to acquire lordship over society is by invariably not interfering.

Everything can be undone, including success.

It isn't the thing you do, dear, it's the thing you leave undone which gives you a bit of heartache at the setting at the setting of the sun.

We refuse to have our conscience bound by any work or law, so that by doing this or that we should be righteous, or leaving this or that undone we should be damned.

The earthly power sucks shadowed milk from sleepy tears undone, from nippled skin as smooth as silk the bugles blown as one.

I am undone! I have smashed the waggon. [I have ruined all.]

He’d undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can’t call back the futures that your bad decisions lost

They're selling razor blades and mirrors in the street Pray that when I'm coming down you'll be alseep If I ever hurt you your revenge will be so sweet Because I'm scum And I'm your son I come undone

What is already woven cannot be undone. It will not make the trees grow again for you to bring the building down on our heads.

Whatever can be done, can be undone.

They shut the road through the woods Seventy years ago. Weather and rain have undone it again, And now you would never know There was once a road through the woods

I dont get distracted until the weight of other things left undone finally tips the balance; my mind is flooded with calls, bills, supermarkets, letters, and I have to stop and sort things out.

One can't tear up the darkness with a slap but bringing the light. Neither the error gets undone by fighting It hand-to-hand, but spreading the truth, without attacking the error.

Good works are continually being undone by the tons of hatred and anger which are being poured out on the world.

Nearly everyone could be undone by an old woman's displeasure.

Acquaintance; companion; One dear brilliant woman; The best-endowed, the elect, All by their youth undone, All, all, by that inhuman Bitter glory wrecked.

Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.

When told by a helpful aide that his flies were undone he replied 'Young man, there is no harm in leaving the cage door open if the bird is dead!

Being interested in doing undone things means you have the wish to have them done. But being powerful and filled with passion tells that you have the will to actualize them!

until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone

Trust undone will lead to heartache and pain. So I ask you to be honest and truthful in your love for me.

We can hardly get to the very far for the very far we can think of is the far we have not yet reach

Only those with tenacity can march forward in March

And our desire to knowEach other and desertEach other for newCenters of meaning so thatThe boundaries may reignAnd in doing so be undone.

There are things that once done can’t be undone, things that once said can’t be unsaid.

I never wanted to be saved, just loved in ways that would make the Gods jealous.

And now none of it could be undone. That was the exquisite irony: the act that had undone everything could not itself be undone.

...the heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it’s damaged for ever and what’s done can never be undone.

George's hand lifted and fell away again. It seemed an insult to imply that anything so small as a touch could stop the raw feeling in Sir Stephen's suddenly dark and haunted eyes.

Jack Speight undid me, then I almost undid myself. But I've undone some of the bad, too, some of the damage. With help. With luck and love.