Quotes About Regret

You know, I have had a terrible life. I married two men I really didn't like. My only daughter was killed in a car accident. My brother committed suicide. Has my life been a life for anyone to envy?

I wish I were a virgin again. The only fun I ever had was holding out.

God sends drunks blackouts because if they knew what they had done they would surely die of shame.

But what bothers me is that I only accidentally noticed them. What else have I missed? How many times in my life have I been, so to speak, on the back porch, not the front porch? What would have been said to me that I failed to hear? What love might there have been that I didn't feel?

It has been seven years since you died. Of course what I'll say next is that time has flown by. I got old. All of a sudden, de repente. I walk with difficulty. I even drool. I leave the door unlocked in case I die in my sleep, but it's more likely I'll go endlessly on until I get put away someplace. I am already dotty.... It's not so strange that I talk to my cat but I feel silly because he is totally deaf.

There was panic in my eyes. I looked into my own eyes and back down at my hands. Horrid age spots, two scars. Un-Indian, nervous, lonely hands. I could see children and men and gardens in my hands.

I can't handle you being dead, Ter. But you know that.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

The first and greatest punishment of the sinner is the conscience of sin.

While we are postponing, life speeds by.

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity?

He shut his eyes. "What an idiot I was up there. Stupid, naïve . . . and slow, slow, slow to understand." "Honest, perhaps?" Dobrowski said. Halperin was angry, but not with Dobrowski. "Isn't honesty in a situation like that plain stupidity? I could have lied. I could have continued to lie.

the fact that you'll never know what sort of person you might have been if you'd read different stuff

I would consider it a great blessing, but some of us are cursed to love unwisely and do so until death.

Ah, how I rue that what I could have done I did not do!

In retrospect all fools become wise.

Her hair is longer now, and fine lines bracket her mouth, parentheses around a lifetime of words I was not around to hear.

I love you...But I made you cry.

I do not have the money anymore. It was all yours, after all. I slipped the check into the silk lining of the coffin when I kissed you good-bye for the last time.

What became of all those lost balloons: they were the loves that slipped out of our fists; the blank eyes that rose in every night sky.

I remember everything Campbell, she interrupts. If I didn't, this wouldn't be so hard.