Quotes About Regret

As Mike Roberts watched Tommy enter the building, he could not imagine that the boy was taking his last steps in the free world. The rest of his life would be behind prison walls.

He made a mistake, one that would send him to death row and eventually cost him his freedom for life.

She was forty-one years old, and she was tired. But the fatigue would pass. The old dreams of full-time motherhood and a cushy retirement were forever forgotten.

Creía que no te arrepentías nunca de nada —comentó Mark. —Esto son errores, no arrepentimientos. Se acabaron los arrepentimientos, y es una pérdida de tiempo flagelarse por ellos. Pero los errores son movimientos en falso del pasado que pueden afectar al futuro. Con suerte, los errores pueden contenerse o incluso corregir.

I cursed Mister for derailing my life. I cursed Mordecai for making me feel guilty. And Ontario for breaking my heart.

I've killed a lot of men, Preacher, all brave soldiers on the field. You're the first coward." "Pete, no, no!" Dexter said, raising his hands and falling back into his chair, eyes wide and mouth open. "If it's about Liza, I can explain. No, Pete!

He was ashamed of his greed and embarrassed by his stupidity. It was sickening what money had done to him.

He lived forty-four years and no one cried at his funeral.

Marley fez-me pensar no carácter efémero da vida, nas suas alegrias passageiras e oportunidades perdidas. Fez-me lembrar que só temos uma chance de chegar ao ouro, sem repetições.

had been "the worst thing" about this cold-blooded deed.

Mary never saw Bothwell again.

for that is all it was—was the greatest faux pas of his career.

now he had done it again.

But her decision to cross the border was a catastrophic mistake.

Perhaps I'd be happier if I had a boring job like Filly, but then I wouldn't have any time to myself. I waste so much time and then I resent it when I don't have time to waste.

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

The hardest thing to accept about the passage of time is that the people who mattered most to us are all wrapped up in parenthesis

It was quality that killed Lilly; it was the end of The Great Gatsby, which was not her ending, which was not an ending within her grasp.

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

Juan Diego lived there, in the past—reliving, in his imagination, the losses that had marked him.

Importantly, it was in this out north to Steering, with the real Ellen James sleep and in his care, that T. S. Garp decided he would try to be more like his mother, Jenny Fields. A thought, it occurred to him, that would have pleased his mother greatly if it had only come to him when she was alive.

And feeling like a failed sexual predator, because of pregnant Mary…

Okay," I said. I still have that photograph, though I don't like remembering any part of the day Carlton Delacorte died.

The good gringo asked Lupe if she forgave him for sleeping with her mother. "Yes," Lupe said, "but we can't ever get married.