Quotes About Regret

the regrettable past should be left to languish wherever it took itself when it was finished being the enjoyable present

Don't waste your gold dust.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

Once you're famous you can't go back.

When you're having sex again, it makes you wonder why you weren't before. What could possibly have been bad enough to make you stop doing THAT?

Right when you find yourself not thinking about her at all, there she'll be, right at the end of the story to fuck with your head one last time." She

Back in the car, I sit for a long time, breathing. I'll remember this, what just happened, for a very long time. I'll be on my own deathbed someday, replaying this in my head, wishing it had gone differently. We hold on to the shitty things the tightest, for some reason. And this is the shittiest thing ever. "Are

Over twenty men died during the construction of the Brooklyn Bridge, Dr Lynch. Does anyone regret that? No, all anyone sees is a marvel of its time, a great achievement in human ingenuity. So it will be here. This place will be beyond great. It will be the envy of the entire world.

She wondered if she'd taken the first step on the road away from her dreams. What scared her was how easy it had been to do it.

Jack la miró largamente. ¿Cómo había imaginado que podría vivir sin ella? Durante todo el infernal trayecto por la autopista cubierta de agua en un Jeep robado, mejor dicho, prestado, había ensayado lo que iba a decir, había pensado cómo iba a abordarla. Una vez allí, en la misión más arriesgada de toda su vida, solo podía hacer una cosa.

The years went by too quickly, that was the trouble. By the time you figured out that the times you were living were the best, they were over and nothing more remained than a few blurry snapshots and a handful of memories.

He'd arrived too late. She had told him that Dr. Murphy was seeing her, but he hadn't expected the man to move in so quickly after he'd left. He admired the doctor, though he'd be hard-pressed to say he liked him. How could he, knowing Mattie would be in

Los días vividos, pletóricos o vacíos, tranquilos o agitados, son todos por igual días pasados, y la ceniza del pasado pesa lo mismo en todas las manos.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

When we lose someone we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above the gravest faults and the cruellest wrongs (and how admirable and full of significance is this instinct!). If there linger still a regret within me, it is not that I am unable to inflict suffering in my turn, but it is perhaps that my love was not great enough and that my forgiveness has come too late. …

One day you're breaking hearts, and then you blink and it's decades gone and your heart attacks you.

Oh," every stair creaked faintly, "I ought to have been marble!

Dan — Whistling Dan," he said, "I'm seeing you a long, long ways off. Partner, I'm done for." The whole body of Dan stiffened. "Done? Tex, you can't be! Five minutes ago you sat at that there table, smilin' an' talkin'!" "It doesn't take five minutes. Half a second can take a man all the way to hell!

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

I never knew what real happiness was until I got married. And by then it was too late.

Of these years nought remains in memory but the sad feeling that we have advanced and only grown older.

In the carriages of the past you can't go anywhere.

In the middle of the night, things well up from the past that are not always cause for rejoicing--the unsolved, the painful encounters, the mistakes, the reasons for shame or woe. But all, good or bad, give me food for thought, food to grow on.