Quotes About Regret

Everyone, it seems, wants absolution for something.

he hadn't wanted to go through life heartsick for something he could not have.

they would have all the same stressors still in place, and they would have no means of lessening them, because, their will, if they had amassed any in their time away, was still weak and always a quick casualty. No match for the horrors of lost chances.

It's true that some mistakes can never be amended no matter what you do, but that doesn't mean it's all right to give up before you even try.

Customs are formed, and the descendants of men are trapped therein. The generations pass without a chance to weed out the foolish from the essential—a regrettable situation.

The real tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.

Death is not the greatest loss in life. The greatest loss is what dies inside us while we live.

The tragedy of life is not death it is what we let die inside of us while we live.

The best love affairs are those we never had

But because I do not wish to be remembered (if I will be remembered) as a self-indulgent fantasist, I'll skip the purple patch for now, however much I wish to write it. I need to make amends for my indifference, for having turned my back on the world in favor of the beauties of the way. I'll try to study cruelty (I regret my own) and render it in more familiar terms.

We may not realize it, but every point during the passage of our lives is a point of no return -- except for what memory permits.

Well, unfortunately, I have always regretted the fact that I have a temper, but I also have, you know, have great love and respect for all of the people that have worked for me. I think like everything else, this is one of those things that has been blown out of proportion.

Bird misses everything at once. One thing makes her want all the others— lived or not, still she misses them. She misses lives she has never lived— days issued out of the future , hours that will never be.

I'm sorry, is what she means to say. Sorry, sweetheart, about the elephants. About the sea turtles with their heads lopped off, and the friendly, machine-gunned whales. About the owls, my love, and the antelope. About the drowning bears...

He had never understood what was wrong and what was right, good and bad, what he wanted and did not want; he had never been able to solve the knotted snarl of his life because of the very complexity of that snarl, because of his indecision, because of the double responsibility he felt, and when, finally he had become man enough to solve it, it was too late, and too many forces had been set in motion.

Tehlikeli oyunlar oynanm??t?r. ?nsan?n içinde ifade edilmez bir eksiklik duygusu kal?r. Her ?ey ba?ka türlü olabilirdi sanki. Bütün bu oyunlar bu kadar da kötü oynanmayabilirdi.

?lk yalan? söyledikten sonra bir daha konu?mamal? insan ümit ediyor ?sa günahlar? affediyor her i? yolunda fakat ?sa günah i?lemedi bunun a??rl???n? bilemez yapt??? bir hataya kitaplarda rastlayamad?m ba?kas?nda günahlar? affetmek kolay...

Ölüm de?ilse bizi ay?ran, yaz?k olmu?.

Günahlar?m?n a??rl???na dayanam?yorum Olric. Neden beni uyarmad?n? Buna hakk?m yoktu efendimiz. Öyle güzel gürlüyordunuz ki. Size kap?lmamaya imkan yoktu. Çevrenizdeki bütün sahtelikleri öyle güzel ayd?nlat?yordunuz ki. Bir daha göremeyecekler sizin gibi bir devi efendimiz. Onlar?n küçük ya?ant?lar?n?n içinde ben de küçülmedim mi Olric?

Ba?ka türlü hissetseydim ölmü?tüm ?imdi. Ayr?ca, kaç kere tavan aras?na ç?kmay? içimden geçirdim. Hele kendini öldürdü?ünü duysayd?m, muhakkak ç?kard?m. Darg?n oldu?umuza filan bakmazd?m.

?yi, iyi; bunlar?n hepsini Hüsamettin Albay?ma söylerim. Mezar ta??ma yazd?ramam ya bu kadar ?eyi. Söyle evlad?m, diye teselli ederdi annem beni.Söyle de içine hicran olmas?n.Hicran oldu anne.

Vazgeçiyorum, bütün insanl???n önünde e?ilerek özür diliyorum; beni yanl??l?kla ç?kard?lar sahneye.

I can't unfind you," he said.

I think progress began to retrogress when Wilbur and Orville started tinkering around in Dayton and at Kitty Hawk, because I believe that two Wrights made a wrong.