Quotes About Regret

Four things come not back: The spoken word, The sped arrow, The past life, The neglected opportunity.

That hindsight thing will bite you in the butt every time. And there's just something about youth that keeps us from realizing how every choice we make matters. What I would give if I could just go back and spend those nights with Beck when he was a little boy at home.

Isn't it better to just leave some doors in our lives closed?" "Not if you're always going to wonder what might have been behind them.

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late." ? Henny Youngman

The moment will come, as surely as we breathe, when opportunity will disappear. Then, and only then, will we realize what we have lost.

Like she's realized, really realized, she's failed as a mother. I instantly regret being the one to bring the realization to the surface again.

We're left without a chance, ignorant and remorseful among the ruins of our ambitions.

Mi vida ha sido algo completamente vacío, sin sentido. He cazado, he viajado, he convivido con todo el mundo. Pero todo ha sido inútil... Lo digo sin vergüenza y sin remordimiento, porque sé que la vida de los hombres está hecha así. Es precisamente por eso por lo que deseo utilizar mi aplazamiento: para realizar aunque sólo sea un único acto que tenga alguna significación.

I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my Life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.

There are things you do sometimes, actions that you take by obeying sudden impulses, without stopping for even a fraction of a second to think, and then you spend the rest of your life either lamenting it or thanking yourself for it. They are rare, unique, and perfect moments.

This thing of Beauty is a Guilt forever.

Memories of the past would return to us more often if only we sought them out, sought their intense sweetness. But we let them slumber within us, and worse, we let them die, rot, so much so that the generous impulses that sweep through our souls when we are twenty we later call naive, foolish…Our purest, most passionate loves take on the depraved appearance of sordid pleasure.

You, the damnable place of my birth, my eternal Decembers.

How the hell do I know? It just hurts me to think about it....And its not because you're a great lay. Though you are. But I've had great lays before, and I didn't get torn up. You should have known it would come down to this." Garrett

All sins cast long shadows.

Man hat mich vergessen. Ich habe in einer dunklen Ecke gestanden und alles gehört. Man konnte nicht wissen, dass ich noch da war, aber man hat mich vergessen. Alle sind fort, und ich gehe alleine nach Hause - es ist nicht weit, aber es ist meine eigene Schuld.

I'll wager my life there are millions of men Who wish that their wives were their sweethearts again

I lost the sunshine and roses, I lost the heavens so blue, I lost the beautiful rainbow, I lost the morning dew. I lost the angel who gave me Summer the whole winter through, I lost the gladness that turned into sadness When I lost you.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough.

There are too many books I haven't read, too many places I haven't seen, too many memories I haven't kept long enough

Now,' Elias said, 'if only I didn't have to go home to my lousy wife. I married her in 1929. A lot of things've changed since 1929.' He sighed. 'What's a woman?' he asked. 'A Woman is a trap.

Foolish old age is no less pitiful than cowardly youth.

O Diamond! Diamond! thou little knowest the mischief done!

There are some people who say they're able to 'compartmentalize' things, as though it is possible to put negative or distressing thoughts into neat mental drawers to be taken out only at a psychologically convenient time. It's a beguiling idea, but I've never bought it. In my experience, sadness and regret seek into one's consciousness willy-nilly, or they suddenly leap out at you with a snarl. The only real remedy is time…