
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
Variant: What's done, is done
Source: Macbeth
“What is done cannot be undone, but one can prevent it happening again.”
Source: The Diary of a Young Girl
“What you have done to this point cannot be undone. What you do next… It is still unwritten.”
Source: The Time Keeper
“The whole point of getting things done is knowing what to leave undone”
Golden Sayings of Epictetus
Context: Canst thou judge men?... then make us imitators of thyself, as Socrates did. Do this, do not do that, else will I cast thee into prison; this is not governing men like reasonable creatures. Say rather, As God hath ordained, so do; else thou wilt suffer chastisement and loss. Askest thou what loss? None other than this: To have left undone what thou shouldst have done: to have lost the faithfulness, the reverence, the modesty that is in thee! Greater loss than this seek not to find! (91).
“Nothing deserves to be undone, doubtless because nothing deserved to be done.”
The Trouble With Being Born (1973)
“What Reason weaves, by Passion is undone.”
Source: Essay on Man and Other Poems