Quotes About Regret

To live a life of regret is to deny yourself living a life of happiness.

One moment of gratification is not worth a lifetime of being unhappy.

Don't live in the past unless you like guilt ,don't live in the future unless you like fear.

I'm sorry," I said again. I had nothing better to say. He did not love her; he never would.

That is—your friend?" "Philtatos," Achilles says, sharply. Most beloved."Best of men, and slaughtered by your son.

Once again, I wished that someone else were there on the island. Not to commiserate now, but to cherish him with me. I would say, Look, can you believe it? We have come through the rocks and winds. I failed him, yet he is a sweet wonder of this world.

But though he had saved them, he came too late. Too many lives had been lost to his pride. And so they gave him no gratitude, no gifts. Only their hatred for not having spared them sooner.

How did it happen?" There was a piece of me that shouted its alarm: if you speak he will turn gray and hate you. But I pushed past it. If he turned gray, then he did. I would not go on anymore weaving my cloths by day and unraveling them again at night, making nothing. I told him the whole tale of it, each jealousy and folly and all the lives that had been lost because of me.

The never-ending ache of love and sorrow. Perhaps in some other life I could have refused, could have torn my hair and screamed, and made him face his choice alone. But not in this one . . . I would follow him, even into death

It had never truly been anger, only fear and sorrow.

was like any dull ass who has ever loved someone who loved another. I thought: if only she were gone, it would change everything.

Qué era lo que más quería? - Su amante, Patroclo. No me apreciaba mucho, pero también es cierto que los buenos guerreros nunca me aprecian. Aquiles enloqueció tras su muerte; o estuvo a punto de enloquecer.

And then I remembered, he will never be old.

He was unfailingly polite, offering food and wine, a bedroll, but he did not linger. What did I expect? I had loosed my wrath on him as if I were my father. One more thing that I had ruined.

Mi exilio podría aplacar la ira de los vivos, pero no la de los difuntos.

not when I stood in his blood.

We are sorry, we are sorry. Sorry that you were caught, I said. Sorry that you thought I was weak. But you were wrong.

When he died, all things swift and beautiful and bright would be buried with him. I opened my mouth, but it was too late. "I will go," he said. "I will go to Troy." The

They have wrinkles, but no wisdom. I took them to war before they could do any of those things that steady a man. They were unmarried when they left. They had no children. They had no years of lean harvest, when they must scrape the bottom of their stores, and no good years either, that they might learn to save. They have not seen their parents grow old and begin to fail. They have not seen them die. I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

As I ran, I promised myself that if I ever saw him again, I would keep my thoughts behind my eyes. I had learned, now, what it would cost me if I did not.

Heracles would kill his wife again for a chance to come along.

Her mouth tightens. 'Have you no more memories?'

Is she unhappy? But he would have laughed at such a mewling question, and he would have been right to. My witchcraft, the island, my lion, all of them sprang from her transformation. There was no honesty in regretting what had given me my life.

When we opened the front door, we found Elpenor sprawled upon the flagstones. He had fallen from my roof at last. We gazed down at his bluing lips, the ugly angle of his neck.