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Quotes About Regret

I'm drinking a Diet Coke, because frankly I ate a whole box of Pop Tarts yesterday and this will take it away.
~ Paula Poundstone
My name is John Calley, the man said. He poured coins back into the can out of his large, callused hand. He said, We should not have taken your money this morning on the road. I am regretting it.
~ Paulette Jiles
Tania...you and I had only one moment..."said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" (When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street.) "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.
~ Paulina Simons
The worst thing about movie-making is that it's like life: nobody can go back to correct the mistakes.
~ Pauline Kael
She felt as though she were a statue of ashes—bitter, useless, damned—like the salt statues of Gomorrah. For she was guilty. Those who love God, and by Him are abandoned in the dark of night, are guilty, because they are abandoned.
~ Pauline Réage
Tatiana...you and I had only one moment..." said Alexander. "A single moment in time, in your time and mine...one instant, when another life could have still been possible." He kissed her lips. "Do you know what I'm talking about?" When Tatiana looked up from her ice cream, she saw a soldier staring at her from across the street. "I know that moment," whispered Tatiana.
~ Paullina Simons
I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.
~ Paullina Simons
No! he wanted to cry out. No, Tania, please come back. What can I leave her with, what can I say, what one word can I leave with her, for her? What one word for my wife? "Tatiasha," Alexander called after her. God, what was the curator's name...? She glanced back. "Remember Orbeli-
~ Paullina Simons
I want amnesia! I want a fucking lobotomy. Could I please never think again? Look what's happened to us, us, Tania. Don't you remember how we used to be? Just look what's happened.
~ Paullina Simons
Tania, when I found you, I felt for that hour or two we were together - before Dimitri, before Dasha - that somemhow I was going to right my life." Alexander smiled bitterly. "I had a sense of hope and destiny that I can neither explain nor understand.
~ Paullina Simons
You want to know what I thought of in that boat? I thought, I have to stay alive. Tatiasha will never forgive me.
~ Paullina Simons
When I was in Colditz, that impenetrable fortress, whittling away my life, I wanted to know this." "Looks like you're still there, Shura." "No," he said. "I'm in New York, a fly on the wall, trying to see you without me.
~ Paullina Simons
Well, Alexander thought, any minute now, one of the girls he had carelessly discarded was going to come by the barracks with a gun and blow his brains out and on his tombstone the epitaph would read, "Here lies Alexander, who couldn't remember the name of any girl he had fucked.
~ Paullina Simons
Through the smoke she could feel bodies around her. Hot and faint, she felt for them with her hands. The gunfire came from right outside the door, but when the lattice beam fell from the ceiling, all sounds faded away, all faded away, and there was no more fear. Only regret was left. Regret for Alexander.
~ Paullina Simons
I can't do it," Tatiana said "I can't walk down the streets of our life with you." "I know." They turned back to the reflections in the mirror.
~ Paullina Simons
Shura, I'm going to die.
~ Paullina Simons
La memoria... esa cruel enemiga del consuelo.
~ Paullina Simons
Dulce amor de juventud, perdona si te olvido...»
~ Paullina Simons
Who said memory is kind? Memory is merciless. My father was right. 'All the things you want to remember, Paullina, I want to forget'.
~ Paullina Simons
They ooze blood out of their wounds and live inside their regret.
~ Paullina Simons
He stared at her fists and at her face and said with upset incredulity, "You promised me you would forgive me-" "Forgive you,"Tatiana hissed through her teeth, tears streaming down her face, "for your brave and indifferent face, Alexander!" She groaned in pain. "Not for your brave and indifferent heart.
~ Paullina Simons
Memory - that fiend, that cruel enemy of comfort.
~ Paullina Simons
Sometimes, we are so attached to our way of life that we turn down wonderful opportunities simply because don't know what to do with it.
~ Paulo Coelho
It's amazing that no matter how much money you have, you can make some bad decisions, and in five months you're on the street, begging.
~ Paz de la Huerta