Quotes About Regret

Because as you get older, life sort of eats away at you like battery acid, and all the things you once loved are suddenly harder to find. And when you do find them, you don't have time to enjoy them anymore, you know?

But the loss of possibilities was always undeniably painful.

Sometimes you think people will be around forever, and then you lose them with no warning at all.

What if she'd turned down the lightly flung invitation and went about her life, thudding obliviously along like a drunk person, a blind person, a moron, someone who thinks that the small packet of happiness she carries is enough.

people could not get enough of what they'd lost, even if they no longer really wanted it.

I know I still cause harm, probably a ton of it no matter what I do. And it kills me, it just kills me, that maybe the best you can ever do is cause less harm. But there you have it.

But the truth is, you can rarely undo things. This is what you realize after one of your parents dies.

If it hadn't been what it was, it would've been beautiful.

No, this is throwing up like coming off the tilt-a-whirl at age seven, like discovering that dead rat under the porch, like finding out someone you loved never loved you at all.

But the problem with looking back when you should be walking ahead is that you usually end up walking into something that hurts.

If I'd known it was going to be the last time he'd ever hold me, I'd have paid better attention.

You don't have to be sad to miss someone and wish they were still in your life.

I do not like that I allowed my past to close me off. I do not like that I let circumstances rob me of the ability to have a normal relationship with a man, to have friends, to be happy. I do not like it, but I had felt myself powerless against it.

No. It was the best mistake I ever made.

She hadn't planned on having another beer, but then...when did she ever plan to drink another one? They usually just followed one after the other like stepping stones set into a stream, and she hopped along them one at a time until she lost her balance and fell into the drink.

I knew I'd sounded bitter, but I didn't bend even when guilt threatened to throttle me with its bony fingers. "I hope it was worth it, Mom.

The circular conversation wasn't new. Instead of feeling annoyed, I felt only sad. This man, for better or worse, was my father.

Sometimes, you ruined things and couldn't fix them.

Some things never left you, no matter how much you wanted them to.

She's dead, Nikolai, there's no point in telling lies to make it all better," his mother said firmly. "That serves nobody. If anything, we should take this as a chance to remember that we never know how much time we might have left in this life, and if we want to put the past behind us, we ought to start now.

Silence is the cruelest means of rejection, even if it only masks confusion or regret. The

But I can't help myself. And there he is, larger than life on the screen, looking every bit as tortured and handsome as he did the last time he tried to contact me a few weeks ago. (Harmony/Jondoe)

You, yes, you, linger inside my heart The same you who stopped us before we could start I didn't want to leave, but you began to believe Your own crocodile lies.

People need to feel that they have been thwarted by circumstances from pursuing the life which, had they led it, they would not have wanted;