Quotes About Regret

If you don't want to deal with things like guilt, shame and disappointment later on in life, then you'll have t start now by making choices that won't result in those things...tomorrow's regret depends on today's decisions. If you don't want to regret your physical intimacy tomorrow, then you'll have to be living in un-regrettable physical intimacy today.

The hardest thing about the road not taken is that you never know where it might have led.

I remember lost loves, and loves that never were.

The wounds we cause, while unintentional, still bleed.

I wish I had not spent my hours worrying over another nickel for the carousel, but instead running barefoot through the fields of yellow bonnets.

I understood that feeling of regret, the sense that there was a moment when the paths divided and you chose one over the other.

Every available avenue is paved with guilt, lined with pain, and pockmarked with shame.

Someone should tell the dead that saving the living isn't as simple as leaving a note to say, It's no one's fault. For the living, it always feels like someone's fault.

My story begins on a sweltering August night, in a place I will never set eyes upon.

How sad, I think now, to live an entire life blinded by the ordinary.

news guts me out like a fish. I'm empty inside. My mama's gone from this world? She's gone from this world, and I'll never get to see her again?

Heartland Now that we've given our hearts away With the bric-a-brac, we want them back. Now we look for them secondhand, Someone else's, in the old songs, The slowly unfolding novels We never had time for. Hearts That taught themselves to fly; …overstuffed hearts, still leaking Downy secrets like feathers. We want someone to say, 'I give you my heart', meaning, 'Summer and winter', meaning 'All my time in the this world'…

We all throw away perfectly wonderful lives because our foolish, sinful appetites take us places we should not go.

Our happiness is made up of the things we miss.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

What is more mortifying than to feel you've missed the Plum for want of courage to shake the Tree?

she thought ray i'll never see ray again there was a time she looked into those green eyes and said i love you so long ago he'll never know i still do

Booze and boys, ain't nothing in the universe that'll make a girl stupid faster.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

My mother, she was twenty in 1979, she supported Khomeini, she wanted to throw out the Shah. But now she cries all the time. Ten times a day she says to me, what did I do? What did I do? It wasn't meant to be like this. But there is nothing we can do.

Many of the passengers were a generation or two older than me, men and women who would remember the pre-revolution era; they had probably supported the overthrow of the Shah at the time. Considering that over ninety-eight per cent of the population had voted for the creation of an Islamic Republic back in 1979, it was highly likely that most of these quiet, tea-drinking folk around me had ticked the YES box in that fateful referendum. I wondered if they regretted that decision now.

Et ça jaillit comme dans un cauchemar, je dégueule des litres de vodka, des litres de champagne, mes illusions perdues, les fantômes qui me hantent, et ça gicle sur le bitume noir avec un bruit d'explosion liquide et sale qui se répercute dans ma tête comme la sentence fatale de mon indignité.

Think of your woods and orchards without birds! Of empty nests that cling to boughs and beams As in an idiot's brain remembered words Hang empty 'mid the cobwebs of his dreams!

Muchos se casan aprisa que a llorar despacio van.