Quotes About Regret

Avril raised his fine head. 'Yes,' he said. 'My poor Margaret.' His face changed only for an instant. The grief upon it appeared and passed like the shadow of a leaf in the wind, but its intensity was so great that Luke, who was still a young man, was dismayed to learn that it could exist.

You may never be entirely happy; few people are. You may never achieve your heart's desire in this world, for people seldom do. Sit by enough deathbeds, Branza, and you will hear your fill of stories of missed chances, and wrong turnings, and spurned opportunities for love. It is required of you only to be here, not to be happy.

You may never be entirely happy; few people are. You may never achieve your heart's desire in this world, for people seldom do. Sit be enough deathbeds, Branza, and you will hear your fill of stories of missed chances, and wrong turnings, and spurned opportunities for love.

What a pity, when Christopher Columbus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

What a pity, when Christopher Colombus discovered America, that he ever mentioned it.

...as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Very early in my life it was too late.

as long as nothing happens between them, the memory is cursed with what hasn't happened.

Even so you have managed to live that love in the only way possible for you. Losing it before it happened.

If There Be Sorrow If there be sorrow let it be for things undone undreamed unrealized unattained to these add one: Love withheld ... restrained

We've all been there, done stupid things for love.

Eternity is a long time and it doesn't always work out that way," Jareth says, a bit bitterly. "It's worse to love someone and then lose them, then to never love at all.

One way to understand the matter is to recognize that when we mourn, we not only grieve the vanishing of treasured objects, but also those versions of ourselves that thrived within a particular (now lost) relational dynamic. In this manner, loss compels us to discard outmoded facets of the self. While this may give rise to bouts of regret and nostalgia, in the final analysis it serves to replenish the self in that it engenders new inner intensities and unforeseen psychic possibilities.

The sword sweated red; the swordsman regretted nothing.

Han angret at han hadde latt seg overtale av Annika til ikke å undersøke hvor nøkkelen hørte til. Jonas hadde også straks villet finne ut hvor i huset dette rommet var, men Annika hadde vært urokkelig. Dette hadde de ikke noe med. Og kanskje hadde hun rett – de visste jo ikke hva de gav seg ut på …

Why did You bid me drown the letter? I have lost something that he touched, and the destruction of it has gained You nothing, for now I no longer read the words, I hear them, as if he implored me face to face. Speak to me, Jacob, do not play the tyrant. Speak to me.

I studied the shape of my friend's hands, and how he clasped them. I could smell his skin and hair in the cold air of the church, and stood aching, my face a devout mask stretched over a rotten soul. On

how I regretted ever having known this boy, and how severely I condemned the barren and inhuman curiosity of the men who in order to make scientific advancement had torn him away from a life, at least innocent and happy!

A life without some regret is probably a life that wasn't lived to its fullest.

Killing her and the boys had not been the best way to resolve the custody dispute.

I never did get to brush my teeth this morning, I haven't been able to brush my hair, and I can't unzip my wet suit because I'm only wearing a bikini." Sam laughed. "That's what you get for boarding vessels scantily clad in the middle of the night." He grinned. "I don't suppose it was enough to prevent you from doing it again." "No." She grinned back at him. "I don't suppose it was.

People do stupid, thoughtless things every day, and very often there's no understanding why.

Hindsight's a bitch, isn't it?

wish I hadn't.