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Quotes About Regret

Did you see her again in France?" I asked him." "No. When I got to France, she was already dead. She committed suicide ..." "Why?" "She often told me she was frightened of getting old...
~ Patrick Modiano
He was seeking a lost innocence and settings made for enjoyment and ease, but where one could never be happy again.
~ Patrick Modiano
H?n anh t?ng hi v?ng già ?i cùng cô ?y?
~ Patrick Modiano
Parfois, le cœur se serre à la pensée des choses qui auraient pu être et qui n'ont pas été.
~ Patrick Modiano
Y pasan los días, y los meses. Y las estaciones. A veces, me gustaría dar marcha atrás y volver a vivir todos esos años mejor de lo que los viví. Pero ¿cómo?
~ Patrick Modiano
Tenía usted razón cuando me decía que en la vida, lo que cuenta no es el porvenir, sino el pasado.
~ Patrick Modiano
And if one day,' she said, really crying now, 'you look back and you feel bad for being so angry, if you feel bad for being so angry at me that you couldn't even speak to me, then you have to know, Conor, you have to that is was okay. It was okay. That I knew. I know, okay? I know everything you need to tell me without you having to say it out loud.
~ Patrick Ness
Four lines, and the world went quiet. I'm sorry for telling everyone about your mum , read the first line. I miss being your friend , read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you , read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
~ Patrick Ness
And then his noise falls completely silent- And he stops struggling- And looking right into my eyes- He dies. My Todd dies.
~ Patrick Ness
Who will remember Todd? Who will remember what he did? Todd - Todd - And my heart breaks even more - Breaks forever - And I fall to my knees in the snow and sand - And I yell out, wordless and empty - And I drop the weapon.
~ Patrick Ness
And a part of you wished it would just end, said the monster, even if it meant losing her.
~ Patrick Ness
Connor:I let her go. I could have held on but I let her go. The Monster:And that is the truth. Connor:I didn't mean it, though! I didn't mean to let her go! And now it's for real! Now she's going to die and it's my fault! The Monster:And that is not the truth at all.
~ Patrick Ness
And I have this stupid little thought that Aaron didn't survive the croc attack after all, that he died but he's so pissed off at me that dying didn't stop him from coming here to kill me anyway.
~ Patrick Ness
What's the point of lying about anything? We could keep being too afraid to say we don't know stuff and then the future will come and eat us anyway and we'll regret not doing all that stuff we wished we did.
~ Patrick Ness
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back. And so yer always alone, forever and always.
~ Patrick Ness
The only place you belong is the place you can never go back to.
~ Patrick Ness
Didn't you finish your chemistry in school?" "You closed the school and burnt all the books." "Ah, so I did.
~ Patrick Ness
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something without tearing it down. It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.
~ Patrick Ness
I'm sorry for telling about your mom, read the first line. I miss being your friend, read the second. Are you okay? read the third. I see you, read the fourth, with the I underlined about a hundred times.
~ Patrick Ness
But the Spackle War was over a long time ago, wasn't it?" "Thirteen years now." "Thirteen years where you could have righted a wrong." She finally looks at me. "Life is only that simple when you're young, my girl.
~ Patrick Ness
Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.
~ Patrick Ness
And here was a man who lived on belief, but who sacrificed it at the first challenge, right when he needed it most. He believed selfishly and fearfully. And it took the lives of his daughters.
~ Patrick Ness
I hold onto her and I think about redempshun.
~ Patrick Ness
What a sad thing men are. Can't do nothing good without being so weak we have to mess it up. Can't build something up without tearing it down. It ain't the Spackle that drove us to the end. It was ourselves.
~ Patrick Ness