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Quotes About Regret

My body felt like a vow that had been irrevocably broken.
~ Meghan O'Rourke
For most of the people there is no today and there is no tomorrow; for them, there is only the past times! Leave your past to live your today and to live your tomorrow!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
There is always something sad about the old photographs, it is because we know that people in the photos have gone forever.
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
We must often visit yesterday to see how lucky or unlucky we are today!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
Bialystock: Leo - he who hesitates is poor!
~ Mel Brooks
I didn't realize it but I might have created the first cell phone. Had I patented it, I probably would have made so much money that I wouldn't have had to write this book.
~ Mel Brooks
It was no place, Ryan thought, to come home to. ???
~ Unknown
He hated sounding guilty. Terrible things always followed.
~ Unknown
But looking back?—my lie to Sabrina? Best. Screw-up. Ever. Thanks for being a witch Sabrina!! You rock! And so do we—me and my brother's best friend. (Skyler and Star.) (Only better.) ('Cause we're real.) Peace. Out.
~ Melanie Marks
I am going to hell. Not passing go. Just straight to hell.
~ Unknown
Wherever he was, whatever exile he condemned her to, he knew he would hear those footsteps behind him for the rest of his life - tripping over corpses.
~ Melanie Rawn
But grief makes a monster out of us sometimes . . . and sometimes you say and do things to the people you love that you can't forgive yourself for.
~ Melina Marchetta
I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.
~ Melina Marchetta
We spoke about our dreams and how we always felt safe in them, no matter how bad everthing else seemed. He told me it was one of the best days of his life and then he took out his gun. A .22 rifle. And he leaned forward and whispered, "Forgive me, Taylor Markham." Before I could ask how he knew my name and what I was to forgive him for he said, "Take care of my little girl." And then he told me to close my eyes. And I've been frightened to do just that ever since.
~ Melina Marchetta
He bursts out laughing. It's short, as if he regretted allowing me to make him laugh, but the satisfaction's already mine.
~ Melina Marchetta
Once she made him watch Pride and Prejudice and for ages he would re-word Mr Bingley's apology to Jane Bennet, saying, 'I've been an inexplicable fool', for anything from losing his keys to burping out loud. Her reply to anything she wanted to do was Jane Bennet's response to Bingley's marriage proposal, 'A thousand times yes.
~ Melina Marchetta
She made a sound of regret. 'We come second, you and I, Luc-ien,' she said. 'Our allegiance is always to our kingdoms. Without that allegiance, our people would fall.' She placed her head back against his chest and he felt her tears. 'This is not our time.' 'But that will never mean I love you less,' he said.
~ Melina Marchetta
And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.
~ Melina Marchetta
If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.
~ Melina Marchetta
I wasn't there that day to get on the three forty-seven to Yass", he says. "I was there to throw myself in front of it.
~ Melina Marchetta
He took a deep breath and closed his eyes. "Okay, would you like pizza?" "I don't think you deserve my company but I feel sorry for you so I'll say yes." "God help me," he said, half under his breath.
~ Melina Marchetta
Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.
~ Melina Marchetta
But it was Finnikin he tried not to look at, except her heard something come from him that sound like some wild animal and then Finnikin said her name and as long as Froi was alive he had never heard a word said with such pain and he knew he never would again.
~ Melina Marchetta