Quotes About Regret

Just so you know... Even if I don't break it... alot of people break their own Egg. All those adults walking around with tired faces... they've thrown away the "person they want to be.

The individual we grow to be in the course of our lives is only one of the many we might have been but had to leave behind—lamentable casualties of our inner army.49

Pues el delito mayor del hombre es haber nacido.

The worst thing I do is to exist. When I think of that I understand A human's greatest crime is to be born!

CLARÍN: ¿A mi padre le perdisteis el respeto? Sois unos tales por cuales.

A veces te duele más el vacío del futuro que del pasado.

This minute is passing. And it will never come again. Never in all the world. When it is gone, it is gone. No power on earth could bring it back again. - Carson McCullers

Don't waste your life on if-onlys. - Mr. Morrison, Humane Society volunteer

Worse of all, I had to live with a terrible secret. I told lies to keep people from finding out what I'd done and then I had to tell more lies to cover up the first ones. Through it all, I felt like scum. I regretted what I had done and I hated pretending all the time but it was too late. - Kit Hathaway

The second was my stupidity in not availing myself of the opportunity of buying 'La Terre Labourée', of Miró, in London in 1939 for fifteen hundred dollars. Now, if it were for sale, it would be worth well over fifty thousand.

Too bad all that beautiful cleavage had to be wasted on a man-eating floozy.

How could she be sorry about losing her virginity in a romance-novel way on a sunset sail?

There isn't one kind of happiness, there's all kinds. Decision is torment for anyone with imagination. When you decide, you multiply the things you might have done and now never can.

When I was fourteen I had the world at my feet but somebody didn't do their job properly and allowed me to sin.

For one's past grows to a point where it is longer than one's future, and then it can become too great a burden.

She felt as if she'd always been holding a part of herself back, saving it, and she had a terrible fear she would end up saving it forever. That she would die with whole parts of herself unused.

Shay," she said. "Shay McKenna," as if trying out his name, saying it for the first time. "Did you ever love me, even a little?" Love you?" He turned his head and brushed his lips across her fingers. "I'm loving you now, mo chridh. After I'm dead, a thousand years from now, whatever's left of me, be it a soul or just a handful of dust, that will be loving you.

He wanted to do everything over and do it right this time. He wanted to give her the world, but she had already given the world to him.

I'm sorry, George,' said the features editor, Colin Firth

I'm sorry, Roger, but that doesn't make me feel any better. Worse if anything. All that, knowing that, and he didn't tell me, kept it to himself. He must have been so frightened, so wretched. I can't have been much of a wife.

I failed him. He needed me and I failed him. God, Roger, how am I going to bear this, what am I going to do?

Penny Vincenzi

when it came to dying, I was scared. Not of being dead, that I could not comprehend, to be nothing was impossible to grasp and therefore really nothing to be scared of, but the dying itself I could comprehend, the very instant when you know that now comes what you have always feared, and you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.

you suddenly realise that every chance of being the person you really wanted to be, is gone for ever, and the one you were, is the one those around you will remember.