Quotes About Regret

The two main hazards of psychoanalysis: that it might fail, and that if it succeeds, you'll never be able to forgive yourself for all those wasted years.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

If you must reread old love letters, better pick a room without mirrors.

The time to begin most things is ten years ago.

There are whole years for which I hope I'll never be cross-examined, for I could not give an alibi.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had

Women usually love what they buy, yet hate two-thirds of what is in their closets.

There are so many things that we wish we had done yesterday, so few that we feel like doing today.

However life treats you, as time goes by you always get the feeling you've lost life in the very living of it.

The very remembrance of my former misfortune proves a new one to me.

Es algo que suele suceder con los muertos: lamentar no haberles dicho a tiempo cuánto los amabas, lo necesarios que te eran. Cuando alguien imprescindible se va de tu lado, vuelves los ojos a tu interior y no encuentras más que banalidad, porque los vivos, comparados con los muertos, resultamos insoportablemente banales.

La imposibilidad de poder replantearte el pasado y rectificarlo, es una de las limitaciones más crueles de la condición humana. La vida sería más llevadera si dispusiéramos de una segunda oportunidad.

Le dolía que los hechos pasasen con esta facilidad a ser recuerdos; notar la sensación de que nada, nada de lo pasado, podría reproducirse. Era aquella una sensación angustiosa de dependencia, le ponía nervioso la imposibilidad de dar marcha atrás en el reloj del tiempo.

Mas afinal, o que se leva da vida, senão os remorsos? Remorsos do que poderia ter sido e não foi, e do que se perdeu depois de ter sido. Remorsos do que devia ter sido dito e feito, e não o foi a tempo, ou do que foi demasiadamente dito e feito. Remorsos destes eternos desencontros, desta sensação de que nada existe no seu tempo certo, de chegar sempre tarde ou partir cedo demais.

O, parinte, ii sopti Breb dupa ce vedenia se stinse, eu am fost solul care am adus o floare curata si am aruncat-o intr-o volbura prihanita.

Someone who is in harmony no matter what he does, no matter what is happening to him, knows that his psychic energy is not being wasted on doubt, regret, guilt, and fear, but is always usefully employed.

Of course we don't have to undertake any of these plans. But if we don't, chances are, sooner or later, we will regret it.

Few things are sadder than encountering a person who knows exactly what he should do, yet cannot muster enough energy to do it. "He who desires but acts not," wrote Blake with his accustomed vigor, "breeds pestilence.

immediately horrified at what I had done, for it is not correct for a pupil to hit his tutor, even

Turn, O you years_roll again, you vanished years_sail, Ammon, from west to east across the heavens and bring again my youth! Not one word of it will I alter, not my least action will I amend. O brittle pen, smooth papyrus, give me back my folly and my youth!

Or better yet, identify yourself as a person who works for the Property Manager. This powerful, stuck-in-the-middle position allows you a boatload of flexibility to dodge all kinds of bullets. These two words give you an easy out to avoid making rash "shoot from the hip" decisions that may be emotionally charged or you may regret later.

Eternity promises too much to spend one more moment looking back with regret than is necessary.

There has perhaps been no lie greater than the one told of a devil awaiting sinners in hell. Any good it may have done in preventing people from sinning has surely been offset by the mass manipulation it makes possible, extracting subservience from what become confused, unhappy lives filled with regret, guilt, and fear.