Top 57 Undone Things Quotes
#1. Why would you be afraid of death? It would be an inconvenience. I have a lot of undone things and it's bound to get in the way. But, no, it doesn't scare me at all.
David Carradine
#2. 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!
Israelmore Ayivor
#3. Time is passing. Each day is a glorious opportunity to live and enjoy. Today I will let the past die - all the undone things, all the misjudged things ... Today, there are new pleasures, new challenges, new magic.
Ruth Carter Stapleton
#4. 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.
Daniel Levitin
#5. There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.
Lisa Gardner
#6. Sometimes, things need to come undone for better things to come together.
Amy Chan
#7. Sometimes it seems your ever-increasing list of things to do can leave you feeling totally undone.
Susan Mitchell
#8. 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.
Jack Henry Abbott
#9. Aware of how tenuous life can be. How too many things go unsaid or undone. How we wait too long and miss the chance." "Miss
Suanne Laqueur
#10. Prioritizing hurt, a reminder that the clock was ticking, that some things would be left undone.
Lisa Genova
#11. It wasn't peaceful, no light at the end of a tunnel or any of that crap. Only fear and regret for all the things I'd left undone.
Emily Bleeker
#12. In the pursuit of Knowledge, every day something is added. In the practice of the Way, every day something is dropped. Less and less do you need to force things, until finally you arrive at non-action. When nothing is done, nothing is left undone.
Martha Beck
#13. Beside the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone.
Lin Yu Tang
#14. Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.
Mary Downing Hahn
#15. 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
Zora Neale Hurston
#16. I have a choice. I can whine about things that have happened, and can't be undone, or I can make the best of the situation I'm in.
Michelle Diener
#17. SMALL THINGS
& GREAT
He that lets
the small things bind him
leaves the great
undone behind him.
Piet Hein
#18. Things are done quickly enough if done well. If just quickly done they can be quickly undone.
Baltasar Gracian
#19. In my rear view mirror the sun is going down sinking behind bridges in the road and I think of all the good things that we have left undone and I suffer premonitions confirm suspicions of the holocaust to come.
Roger Waters
#20. A successful day is one in which you have stayed in touch with Me, even if many things remain undone at the end of the day. Do not let your to-do list (written or mental) become an idol directing your life.
Sarah Young
#21. I don't 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.
Sadie Jones
#22. If There Be Sorrow
If there be sorrow
let it be
for things undone
undreamed
unrealized
unattained
to these add one:
Love withheld
... restrained
Mari Evans
#23. And while I'm sure you feel that your particular mistake is extraordinarily big, insurmountable even, contrary to what you might think, these types of things can always be undone, and oftentimes aren't nearily as lethal as we think - or, should I say, as we allow them to be.
Alyson Noel
#24. You haven't begun to live a focused and productive life until you have said no to great opportunities that just do not fit your mission. There are many good things in this world that will go undone or that will have to be done by someone else.
Tim Challies
#26. We're never really taught that we have to think about our work before we can do it; much of our daily activity is already defined for us by the undone and unmoved things staring at us when we come to work, or by the family to be fed, the laundry to be done, or the children to be dressed at home.
David Allen
#27. Morning Prayer. We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.{21}
Various
#28. The past is what imprisons us. There are some things in this world that can never be undone. But they can be faced. They can be forgiven. And if we hold on to that, then there is a chance for us. A chance that someday. . .we will be free.
John Burley
#30. Last night in his cups he had broken down and wept, full of regrets for things undone and words unsaid.
George R R Martin
#31. Even with her failing vision, Violet West could see the scars. They had turned purple, almost red, from the icy cold, the color of the pears on the tree in the yard, the color of blood that can't be washed away and of things that can never be undone.
Alice Hoffman
#32. No one had told me that you can wake up, years passed, and not understand the person you are, the things you did the night before, the things you said, the things left undone, that it can feel like a nightmare, a wildly seductive, spinning nightmare.
Hannah Lillith Assadi
#33. Death is a thief, the grandest perpetrator of larceny of all. It robs the potential of all the things left undone and reimburses the living with bits of memories that, with each day, pass through the fingers like a handful of sand.
Ron Perlman
#34. Besides the noble art of getting things done, there is the noble art of leaving things undone. The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.
Lin Yutang
#35. There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed okay at the time because we could not see the future.
John Green
#36. All girls have sex with a stranger fantasies and fantasies played out are healthier than those that have been left to fester and go mouldy. When we look back, we don't regret the things we have done, only the things left undone, the things we wanted to do and never did.
Chloe Thurlow
#37. I remember little things that break my heart. We were coming out of Michael's house one day, and he noticed my shoelaces were undone. He bent down and tied them. I almost cried. To me, it was such a gesture of love.
Kirk Douglas
#38. Some things just are. They can't be changed or undone or fixed.But people-people can heal. Even from events they believe are unendurable.
Margaret Peterson Haddix
#39. WHEN WE know what's essential in our lives, everything else is negotiable. What are some things you don't do? What things could you intentionally leave undone so that you can focus more deeply on the things you feel called to and passionate about?
Shauna Niequist
#40. I have been fortunate. I have done so many things and enjoyed so many things and had such a great life, not to imply that it is ending, but that there aren't many things that I feel I have left undone.
Lois Lowry
#41. There is just as much beauty in birth as there is in death, and it changes our lives just the same. They both add things to us and take things away. Pg. 155 Undone
Brooke Taylor
#42. 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.
Sharon Gannon
#43. In fact, the only way to remain creative over time
to not be undone by our expertise
is to experiment with ignorance, to stare at things we don't fully understand.
Jonah Lehrer
#44. until we do what has not yet been done, what has not been done shall remain undone
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#45. But things can change, that's what I told myself. Mistakes can be undone, wrongs righted. That's what brought me home. Hope.
John Hart
#46. Fragile things become undone at a frightening speed.
Deb Caletti
#47. Anything that is worth doing has been done frequently. Things hitherto undone should be given, I suspect, a wide berth.
Max Beerbohm
#48. The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone
Oswald Chambers
#49. There are three things that earthly riches can never do; they can never satisfy divine justice, they can never pacify divine wrath, nor can they every quiet a guilty conscience. And till these things are done man is undone.
Thomas Brooks
#50. Leaving some things undone is a necessary tradeoff for extraordinary results.
Gary Keller
#51. For this alone is lacking even to God, to make undone the things that have once been done. (Quoting Agathon)
Aristotle.
#52. Pay no attention to the faults of others, things done or left undone by others. Consider only what by oneself is done or left undone.
Gautama Buddha
#53. We realize our dilemma goes deeper than shortage of time; it is basically a problem of priorities. We confess, we have left undone those things that ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.
Charles Hummel
#54. There are choices in life which you are aware, even as you make them, cannot be undone; choices after which, once made, things will never be the same.
There is that moment when you can still walk away, but if you do, you will never know what might have been.
Alan Bradley
#55. I have the most ill-regulated memory. It does those things which it ought not to do and leaves undone the things it ought to have done. But it has not yet gone on strike altogether.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#56. The fear of death which is imprinted in men is at the same time a great expedient Heaven employs to hinder them from many misdeeds: many things are left undone for fear of imperiling one's life or health.
Georg C. Lichtenberg
#57. The heart of a child can take forty-nine blows before it's damaged for ever and what's done can never be undone.
Paul Hoffman
