90 Undone Quotes

Following is our list of undone quotations and slogans full of insightful wisdom and perspective about some things can't be undone.

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Famous Undone Quotes

Undressing her was an act of recklessness, a kind of vandalism, like releasing a zoo full of animals, or blowing up a dam. — Michael Chabon

After so many maneuvers and a great many toils the opera is now ruined. — Antonio Vivaldi

O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again! — Thomas Hardy

everyone is naked... under their clothes. — Ashley Purdy

A man is a god in ruins. — Ralph Waldo Emerson

The prettiest dresses are worn to be taken off. — Jean Cocteau

Take away leisure and Cupid's bow is broken — Ovid

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. - Anne Sexton

I am a collection of dismantled almosts. — Anne Sexton

A thousand people cannot undress a naked person — Greek Proverbs

The fabric of existence weaves itself whole. — Charles Ives

Set fire to the broken pieces; start anew. — Lauren DeStefano

The world is wrong side up. It needs to be turned upside down in order to be right side up. — Billy Sunday

The man of power is ruined by power, the man of money by money, the submissive man by subservience, the pleasure seeker by pleasure. — Hermann Hesse

This is the charged, the dangerous moment, when everything must be re-examined, must be made new, when nothing at all can be taken for granted. — James A. Baldwin

Control me...release me...forget about me. — Jeff Hardy

Short Undone Quotes

  • Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone. — Pablo Picasso
  • The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher Stowe
  • Oh Lord, may I be directed what to do and what to leave undone. — Elizabeth Fry
  • What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again — Anne Frank
  • Have fun, because that's what life is all about. — Ryan Lochte
  • Faced with what is right, to leave it undone shows a lack of courage. — Confucius
  • Tao invariably takes no action, and yet there is nothing left undone. — Lao Tzu
  • Sins cannot be undone, only forgiven. — Igor Stravinsky
  • We pay Karma not only for the evil we do but also for the good left undone, being able to do it. — Samael Aun Weor
  • Life creates itself in delirium and is undone in ennui. — Emile M. Cioran

Undone Image Quotes

Undone quote Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.
Only put off until tomorrow what you are willing to die having left undone.

Hair Done Quotes

If you hair is done properly and you're wearing good shoes, you can get anyway with anything. — Iris Apfel

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? - Lily Tomlin

If truth is beauty, how come no one has their hair done in the library? — Lily Tomlin

We know grooming is important for people. To get their hair done, to get makeup and things like that - that makes a person feel better. — Kenneth Williams

When composing a verse let there not be a hair's breath separating your mind from what you write; composition of a poem must be done in an instant, like a woodcutter felling a huge tree or a swordsman leaping at a dangerous enemy. — Matsuo Basho

I got my red dress on tonight Dancing in the dark in the pale moonlight Done my hair up real big beauty queen style High heels off, I'm feeling alive — Lana Del Rey

Boys say they don't mind how you get your hair done. But then they leave you for someone with really great standard girl hair and the next thing you know you're alone with a masculine crop crying into your granola. — Alexa Chung

I'm really just a throw-my-hair-into-a-ponytail kind of girl. I don't like styles that are too neat or too done. I don't think I'll ever go too crazy with colors. I stick with my main two: goldish-blonde or black. — Trina

I like having my hair and face done, but I'm not going to lose weight because someone tells me to. I make music to be a musician not to be on the cover of Playboy. — Adele

Oh my god! Would you shut the front door already?! Look at you walking out here with your hair done, nails done, everything did. Whatchu think you fancy, huh? Look, uh, sweetheart, I don't speak Gucci or anything, but I'll give it my best shot. — Alex Riley

Long hair minimizes the need for barbers; socks can be done without; one leather jacket solves the coat problem for many years; suspenders are superfluous. — Albert Einstein

Undone Things Quotes

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

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

The main thing history can teach us is that human actions have consequences, and that certain choices, once made, cannot be undone. — Gerda Lerner

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

The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials. — Lin Yutang

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

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. — Enid Blyton

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

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

A public library is the most democratic thing in the world. What can be found there has undone dictators and tyrants. — Doris Lessing

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More Undone Quotes

And when night comes, and you look back over the day and see how fragmentary everything has been, and how much you planned that has gone undone, and all the reasons you have to be embarrassed and ashamed: just take everything exactly as it is, put it in God's hands and leave it with Him. — Edith Stein

It's like my whole world is coming undone, but when I write, my pencil is a needle and thread, and I'm stitching the scraps back together. — Julia Alvarez

Authentic spirituality is revolutionary. It does not legitimate the world, it breaks the world; it does not console the world, it shatters it. And it does not render the self content, it renders it undone. — Ken Wilber

It will not be easy, 100 years of failure cannot be undone in one day, but one day begins and today is that day. — Javier Milei

Whatever work you undertake, do it seriously, thoroughly and well; never leave it half-done or undone, never feel yourself satisfied unless and until you have given it your very best. Cultivate the habits of discipline and toleration. Surrender not the convictions you hold dear but learn to appreciate the points of view of your opponents. — Syama Prasad Mukherjee

Silence is full of the unspoken, of deeds undone, of confessions to secret love, and of wonders not expressed. Our truth is hidden in our silence, Yours and I. — Ahmad Shamloo

This is one more piece of advice I have for you: don't get impatient. Even if things are so tangled up you can't do anything, don't get desperate or blow a fuse and start yanking on one particular thread before it's ready to come undone. You have to realize it's going to be a long process and that you'll work on things slowly, one at a time. — Haruki Murakami

Backward we traveled to reclaim the day Before we fell, like Icarus, undone; All we find are altars in decay And profane words scrawled black across the sun. — Sylvia Plath

Let's face it. We're undone by each other. And if we're not, we're missing something. If this seems so clearly the case with grief, it is only because it was already the case with desire. One does not always stay intact. — Judith Butler

A person who has not done one half his day's work by ten o clock, runs a chance of leaving the other half undone. — Emily Bronte

Never try to live on the old manna, nor seek to find help in Egypt. All must come from Jesus or thou art undone forever. Old anointings will not suffice to impart unction to thy spirit; thine head must have fresh oil poured upon it from the golden horn of the sanctuary, or it will cease from its glory. — Charles Spurgeon

Soviet-style communism failed, not because it was intrinsically evil, but because it was flawed. It allowed too few people to usurp too much power. Twenty-first century market capitalism, American-style, will fail for the same reasons. Both are edifices constructed by human intelligence, undone by human nature. — Arundhati Roy

Your enemies hate you more than they hate your ideas. Should you want a project to be undone propose it. Even if it were as useful as a bishop's mire it would be rejected. Once you are defeated let the humblest-looking among you sponsor it and your enemies to humble you will approve it. — Jose Rizal

Do no evilness because it is a small one; do not leave a small deed undone because it is just a petty one. — Sayings

Look not to the faults of others, nor to their omissions and commissions. But rather look to your own acts, to what you have done and left undone. — Buddha

Let none find fault with others; let none see the omissions and commissions of others. But let one see one's own acts, done and undone. — Buddha

Allow not sleep to close your eyes before three times reflecting on Your actions of the day. What deeds Done well, what not, what left undone? — Pythagoras

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone. — Khaled Hosseini

An idealist believes the short run doesn't count. A cynic believes the long run doesn't matter. A realist believes that what is done or left undone in the short run determines the long run. — Sydney J. Harris

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. — Lao Tzu

Let not sleep fall upon thy eyes till thou has thrice reviewed the transactions of the past day. Where have I turned aside from rectitude? What have I been doing? What have I left undone, which I ought to have done? — Pythagoras

One more such victory and we are undone. — Pyrrhus of Epirus

I am the outskirts of some non-existent town, the long-winded prologue to an unwritten book. I'm nobody, nobody. I don't know how to feel or think or love. I'm a character in a novel as yet unwritten, hovering in the air and undone before I've even existed, amongst the dreams of someone who never quite managed to breath life into me. — Fernando Pessoa

See yonder another King's garden, which the King waters with his bloody sweat-Gethsemane, whose bitter herbs are sweeter far to renewed souls than even Eden's luscious fruits. There the mischief of the serpent in the first garden was undone: there the curse was lifted from earth, and borne by the woman's promised seed. — Charles Spurgeon

Even a bad idea executed is better than a good idea undone. — Paul Arden

So far as I am able to judge, nothing has been left undone, either by man or nature, to make India the most extraordinary country that the sun visits on his rounds. Nothing seems to have been forgotten, nothing overlooked. — Mark Twain

True Grit is making a decision and standing by it, doing what must be done. No moral man can have peace of mind if he leaves undone what he knows he should have done. — John Wayne

When nothing is done, nothing is left undone. — Lao Tzu

To separate children from others of similar age and qualifications solely because of their race generates a feeling of inferiority as to their status in the community that may affect their hearts and minds in a way unlikely ever to be undone. — Earl Warren

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