Quotes About Regret

Chet suddenly wished she had quit teaching the class because of him, that he'd had any effect on her at all.

The past is a dark house, and we have only torches with dying batteries. It's probably best not to spend too much time in there in case the rotten floor gives way beneath our feet.

Ah, guilt and sorrow had dogged Juan's footsteps too, for he was not a Catholic who could rise refreshed from the cold bath of confession. Yet the banality stood: that the past was irrevocably past. And conscience had been given man to regret it only in so far as that might change the future. For man, every man, Juan seemed to be telling him, even as Mexico, must ceaselessly struggle upward. What was life but a warfare and a stranger's sojourn?

To the former child migrants, who came to Australia from a home far away, led to believe this land would be a new beginning, when only to find it was not a beginning, but an end, an end of innocence - we apologise and we are sorry. To the mothers who lost the maternal right to love and care for their child - we apologise, and we are sorry.

Sorry implies that if you could go back, you'd do things differently. We both know that you wouldn't change a thing.

My rear end was blood-raw from my so called brilliant ideas rebounding on me.

I can't stop thinking about what might have been… I can't stop imagining the two of us together. My body burns at the thought of it. Sephy and I might've been together for ever." — Callum McGregor

Her life was her major disappointment, her mistakes carved into every premature line in her face, but I wasn't going to let her use my life as her second chance.

regret is an underestimated emotion that can eat away at you just as much as jealousy or anger.

Samson had his Delilah, Adam his Eve, and the Jazter had you. Already, I can see my epitaph. "Here lies Jaz, lover of his fellow men, done in royally by one of them.

An ungrateful life is a wasted life

J'avais cru tout quitter pour vivre mieux, je m'étais trompé... c'était pour mourir plus vite.

la nostalgia es la mayor de las penitencias que cumplen los hombres al paso de los años.

Nada es tan desconsolador, para un libro, como morir virgen. A mí, casi me sucedió.

Imposible mencionar a San Ángel sin recordar tiempos que pasaron y que, como las golondrinas de Bécquer, no volverán.

No, yo no me arrepiento de nada. Cada vez me convenzo más de que el sexo es la inocencia misma.

Me fui dando cuenta de que soñar es como caminar entre voces que flotan y pasos que resuenan. Como caminar por una ciudad que conociste y has olvidado. A veces hay esquinas donde se puede encontrar lo que has perdido. A veces algo muy lindo, otras veces algo que es mejor no recordar.

How different would your life be if you lived as if today were your last?

Seeing her friend's distress, Shannon swerved to the side of the road and parked. She wrapped Tessa in her arms. "It's gonna be okay," she insisted. "We'll get through this. I swear." Tessa choked back tears. "I never got to say goodbye." "I know." "I don't even remember the last thing I said to him…. What if it was something bitchy?

I just wish I could have one more day with him… one more hour." "I'm sure he feels the same way," Shannon assured her. "Wherever he is.

Je me suis rendu compte que les lieux aussi avaient des ombres. Les souvenirs rôdent et vous rendent nostalgique dès que vous vous en approchez trop près.

M?t ai Ä'ó ta yêu thÆ°Æ¡ng là Ä'i?u th?t khinh kh?ng, nhÆ°ng Ä'i?u t? nh?t là chÆ°a bao gi? g?p ???c má»™t ai nhÆ° th?.

Il y a tellement de gens qui se ratent pour de mauvaises raisons. Quel risque y a-t-il à voler un peu de bonheur ?

After seeing his face in the mirror, he swore to abstain from alcohol until the end of the month. It seemed reasonable enough, since it was already the twenty-ninth.