Ben Harper Quotes

There is no sense in crying over spilt milk. Why bewail what is done and cannot be recalled?

Sometimes change is good. Although I didn't want to leave.

I decided I can't pay a person to rewind time, so I may as well get over it.

Now, there's no use crying over spoiled milk.

That what cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

It's too late and it's too bad, don't think of me.

I found out early that you can throw yourself away, missing what you've lost.

What you had could never make up for what you'd lost.

The more you lose, the more is to be lost, yet it matters less.

Never say about anything, "I have lost it," but only "I have given it back." Is your child dead? It has been given back. Is your wife dead? She has been returned.

It's such a colossal effort not to be haunted by what's lost, but to be enchanted by what was.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

It's time to live with what we have and mourn what we lost.

When When it’s over, it’s over, and we don’t know any of us, what happens then. So I try not to miss anything. I think, in my whole life, I have never missed The full moon or the slipper of its coming back. Or, a kiss. Well, yes, especially a kiss.

he was coming to understand he could not come to rectify anything in his life, only forget.

... sooner or later she had to give up the hope for a better past.

You cannot, sir, take from me any thing that I will more willingly part withal: except my life, except my life, except my life.

There are no do overs and some things just aren't going to happen. It is a little sad but you just have to embrace what is

Never say of anything I have lost it, only say that I have given it back.

Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

It was a shame, but as Ron said, you couldn't have everything in life.

I didn't mean I'd seen everything, John Grady said. I know you didn't. I just meant I'd seen some things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I dont know. Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back. Yessir.

It's okay if you want to go. Everyone wants you to stay. I want you to stay more than I've ever wanted anything in my life. But that's what I want and I could see why it might not be what you want. So I just wanted to tell you that I understand if you go. It's okay if you have to leave us. It's okay if you want to stop fighting.

It may be that the life I desire for her no longer even exists, yet I know what she does not. That there is nothing to lose.

I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life.