Quotes About Regret

Who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him'?" I whisper-quote like I'm dreaming. Then I shake my head. "I was in Macbeth

This would never have happened if you had just found her for me when I asked you to," I explode, rounding on him. "This is why she disappeared. She found out she was pregnant." "You don't know that." "I have a child out there, Yef. A boy. And he doesn't know who his father is.

Vengeance has no foresight.

My tidyness and untidyness are full of complicated feelings of regret and sadness.

Our dreams are never realized and as soon as we see them betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.

They weren't happy memories because your father and I were never happy together. Even if we had been briefly and occasionally happy, everything got sullied, ripped up, and destroyed. But people don't love each other only for happy memories. At a certain point in life, you realize that you just love the memories.

La felicità, – lui disse, – sembra sempre niente, è come l'acqua, e si capisce solo quando è perduta. – È vero, – lei disse. E pensò un poco, e disse: – E anche il male che noi facciamo, è così, sembra niente, sembra una sciocchezza, acqua fresca, mentre lo facciamo. Se no allora la gente non lo farebbe, starebbe più attenta.

Most keep their condition secret from all but a few close friends. Interestingly, many of them say the thing they regret most is not their inability to have children but the lack of menstruation, the event they see as a monthly voucher of femaleness.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

dont be afraid of death, be afraid of the unlived life.

Don't fear death, fear the un-lived life

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever. You just have to live.

No amount of wishing will bring back the dead.

The way you got sideswiped was by going back. —JOAN DIDION

How not to think of loss, how it takes hold and grows: like lacuna snails, slow and deliberate, on a reed? Why is everything I see the past I've tried to forget?

Kyo Sohma: One of these days I'll make you say you're sorry Yuki Sohma: looking bored I'm sorry. Kyo Sohma: Dammit That's not what I meant Don't you have any shame Yuki Sohma: still looking annoyed Yes I'm ashamed to be seen with you shouting in public. Kyo Sohma: Oh that's it We're taking this outside Yuki Sohma: still looking annoyed We ARE outside you stupid cat.

My chest hurts...It hurts. The sound of his name is like a knife in my heart.

To be left behind... or to leave behind. I wonder which hurts more.

I kept making you cry... didn't I? - Hatori Sohma

Strangely enough, when you get older the things you didn't understand when you were a child start to make sense. "When this happened, I should have done that." "When that happened, I should have said this." those types of things. You start to understand rather than regret. It may be closer to repentance. So it may be that I do want to repent and erase the ignorant self from my childhood.

The greatest regret I have in this life...is that that creature came out of my body.

There are so many things I can never get back. So much pain. So many tears. So, so much. ...but even so...I'm tired of always looking down and missing what's important.