Quotes About Regret

Listen Relda, stop meddling in our affairs or you're going to regret it," said the mayor. "If you don't want me meddling, then you must really do a better job of covering up your mistakes.

be a dead fool. She braced for the crash, sad that her brother and parents would never know what happened

YOLO You only live once it is a very powerful and misleading quote but very good

I risked my heart on you and lost. Can you honestly say you did the same?

It is always so simple, and so complicating, to accept an apology.

I knew that I shouldn't have, but I did it all the same; and there you have my epitaph, or one of them, because my grave is going to require a monument inscribed on all four sides with rueful mottoes, in small characters, set close together.

One problem with gazing too frequently into the past is that we may turn around to find the future has run out on us.

He hated confronting those lost moments, being presented with some detail from his past and having to look on it like a stranger. It made his life feel like a made-up thing. A net full of holes.

It was a riddle to see a person could get what they wanted and regret it, could even regret wanting it in the first place.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

I very strongly personally regret that I was unable to persuade Governor Blanco and Mayor Nagin to sit down and get over differences and work together. I just couldn't pull that off. I want this committee to know FEMA pushed forward with everything it had, every team, every asset it had, in order to help what we saw as potentially catastrophic disaster.

They live in unbridled pleasure; they offend Him, without thinking that each year they are closer to death.

As a simple fact. Many people think they can postpone repentance till the end. This is an illusion. Most men die as they have lived. If death is sudden, there is no time for it. If it comes gradually, there is usually little energy for the revision of an entire way of being.

It was all very well growing old disgracefully and running your umbrella along life's railings, but when you'd annoyed as many people as possible and told yourself you'd thoroughly enjoyed it, you still had to return home to a cold hearth and deal with it on your own.

Once when he was slapping me back and forth, one hand holding my neck, the other whipping across my cheeks, I caught a glimpse of a picture of him on the mantel – ten years old in a Cub Scout uniform. He looked so proud; his grin was so sweet. Freckles, bright eyes, combed hair still wet. Adorable. I wanted to ask him; how did you grow up to be who you are? Who taught you to hit?

Knight, still furious about the image thirty years later, was a man acutely attuned to the ravages of shame. Had he done something shameful before he'd fled to the forest? He insisted that he had not.

30) Wrong ending? J.K. Rowling herself admits that she regrets not pairing Harry and Hermione together at the end of the series. If she could go back she wouldn't have paired Ron and Hermione with each other.

I want a man who watches me walk away.

I think Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

Sometimes you go so far in your life, you can't get back though you know it's not really your life.

3. The living years (Mike and the Mechanics) 2. Candle in the wind (Elton John)

Nobody is saying that these people do not ultimately cease to be. And Sometimes their passings are even more painful than ours. It is just that so often they live till their hair is white. They make excellent corpses, among the expensive flowers … Nobody

When I visit the past now, it is for wisdom and experience, not for regret or shame.

I can tell you this: there will be other girls, other disasters. And there will be nights to come, his life mostly behind him, when he will long to hurt like that again.