Quotes About Regret

Then Gertie kicked Ida Belle under the table and she lifted her gaze to mine. ''I'm sorry I made you ride naked in my car wearing a trash bag,'' she said, not sounding the least bit sorry. ''No, you're not,'' I said

She cried for herself—the life she'd never bothered to live and had almost lost—and the realization that she still had an opportunity to change it all before it was too late.

Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.

Why not seize pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation!

Oh! dear; I was so miserable! I am sure I must have been as white as my gown.

Only now, when it is too late, do I long for Dearth. I was a misbegotten child of bad blood and bile, and I mistook my own orneriness for cleverness. I presumed to know what happiness was - something I could possess, like a marble, or a man. Something I could only find elsewhere. But just when I started to find it at home, I outfoxed myself and lost it forever.

The farther a man follows the rainbow, the harder it is for him to get back to the life which he left starving like an old dog.

All my life I have felt events to be the result of my own sins.

Oh.' 'Veneering. The retired judge. Friend, no

And that other self, who watches me from the distance of decades, what will she say? Will she look at me with hatred or with compassion, I whose choices made her what she will be?

Living in the what-ifs is dangerous.

life is very short, and keeping grievances takes so much energy, it's not worth it. If you don't make something positive for yourself at least, what you have is wasted, gone, and you can't get it back. One thing

My brother killed Abraham Lincoln. That is my weight, my shame.

We've all done things we wish we hadn't, made choices we didn't even know were choices at that time. but that doesn't mean we have to stick by them. In life, you find out who you are gradually, not all at once. You made a bad choice, okay? But you can still get out of it.

Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link seperately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

Let me tell you a few things about regret...There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

Now you've done it, haven't you, all you fools?

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

Perhaps selling your children, your future, just happened one bad decision at a time.

I wish I'd gotten sober at a younger age.

needed to be wanted. I couldn't go on without being wanted. And I couldn't stop thinking about that little bitch at the restaurant. I used to be that woman, I thought. I used to be the one who turned heads. Now…Christ…I was becoming invisible.

Don't say things you'll regret later, Drew. Our whole world is topsy-turvy right now. But that's no reason to make a grand gesture. I'm here because I want to be. For now. Let's leave it at that.

May you never forget what is worth remembering, Nor ever remember what is best forgotten. Irish proverb

Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on."