Quotes About Regret

It's amazing the things you realize when you lose someone: you get mad at yourself for not saying the things you could've a million times, you take for granted the days spent doing nothing when you could have been with them. Anyone can be taken, at any time in our lives, but we always wait until they're gone to say the things we never had the courage to before.

Some people say the worst way to miss someone is whenthey are right next to you and you know you can't have them, but it's worse when you thought you didn't want them anymore and then all of a sudden you realize you can't live without them.

The moment you looked up at me my heart fell. All my dreams had come true. For a moment we were in the clouds together. You ran back to your love, now I'm on the ground wondering if it was just a dream.

You don't know how much you love someone until you lose them.

I miss everything about you...I can't believe that I still want you. After all the things we've been through. I miss everything about you. Without you...

Learn to appreciate things before you end up losing them.

Territory June 23, 1866 Last time. This is it. Never again. Rafe Kincaid pulled his chestnut thoroughbred to a halt in full darkness, still a short distance away from the entrance of the cavern. He rubbed the ugly, jagged

He closed his eyes so he couldn't see her. But, like a man who had stared at the sun too long, she was burned into his brain.

If he could have reached it, he'd have kicked his own backside.

You propose marriage with the same breath you tell me you're ashamed of me.

I should have grabbed you the first time I saw you riding in your pa's corral, pretty Maizy. I should have known that minute that I'd just met the love of my life." And there, he'd just said it.

I begin with songs. They provide a sort of skeleton grammar for me to flesh out. Songs of longing for future tense, songs of regret for past tense, and songs of love for present tense.

You look back on some little decision you made and realize all the things that happened because of it, and you think to yourself "if only I'd known," but, of course, you couldn't have known.

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

Saying something mean and then claiming you're not yourself doesn't take the hurt away.

A perpetrator may have hurt someone for a few minutes of his/her life and may even regret it, but the survivor lives with the pain, triggers, shame and fear for a lifetime.

Truth that came too late was as useful as a meal to a dead man.

My timing is off. But I had to get it out. Some things you have to tell, no matter how stupid they may sound. Some things you can't save for later. There might not be a later.

Because I so stupidly loved her.

I do hope the things I've forgotten don't matter.

I beg your forgiveness, Your Eminence. I would not truly feed your face to the hogs. It might make them sick.

My breaths shuddered, still hot in my chest. I knew I had made a big mistake, but it was a glorious one, and I wanted to make it over and over again. But there was something in his eyes, something genuine and earnest and true that made me pause. This was more than just making the best of it, this was something taking root, a seed being planted. But it was a seed that couldn't be planted.

I don't care what mistakes I made or what mistakes you made. I'd make every single one again, if that was the only way to be with you

It made me think how different everything might have been if we had both been born in Terravin.