Quotes About Regret

Truly, I did not intend to harm you, he said. That was never my intention.

I intended lilies, said the magician. but in the clutches of a desparate desire to do something extraordinary, I called down a greater magic and inadvertently caused you a profound harm. I will now try to undo what I have done.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away. Where, for instance, were his brothers now? He did not know; he could not say. Madam

Perhaps, he thought, it is not too late, after all, for me to be saved.

At the last moment, Antoinette came out of her faint and shouted one word to her child. That word, reader, was adieu... Adieu is the French word for farewell. "Farewell" is not the word you would like to hear from your mother as you are being led to the dungeon by two oversize mice in black hoods... "Farewell" is a word that, in any language, is full of sorrow. It is a word that promises absolutely nothing.

Mig watched her father walk away, the red table cloth billowing out behind him. He left his daughter. And, as you already know, he did not look back. Not even once.

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It was because he had not loved Abilene enough. And now she was gone from him. And he would never be able to make it right.

Rob was dismayed to see that she was still wearing his shirt and jeans.

Casarse con un marqués o con un conde resultaría de lo más romántico, pero, ¿no ha de ser un consuelo para dos personas echar la vista atrás hacia un mismo pasado?

Sometimes, when you wished too hard for something, you paid a bitter price.

But you will die in any case, Ilyakoria. What good is everlasting fame to a man if he dies unloved?

He, who hated to hurt people, had to begin to deal with all the hurt his actions had wrought—for me, for the children, for Robin, for himself.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

The past is never where you think you left it.

Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

He thought later how peculiar it was that here was probably the biggest thing in his life, and he had shrugged it off as nothing.

He didn't want to die. He had hardly begun to live.

No one survives the future, of course. Over the years I have rushed it, run from it, tried to shunt myself from its track. That these efforts did not succeed does not mean that I regret them.

No one survives the future, of course. Over the years I have rushed it, run from it, tried to shunt myself from it's track. That these efforts did not succeed does not mean that I regret them.

He had the terrible feeling that he had just lost something very precious. Something he had never owned but that nevertheless should have belonged to him.

Be grateful for the time you did have instead of regretful for the time you didn't,' I say.

I found out and lost the only place I ever sort of regarded as home. Oh well. Best to stay in one's garden but Voltaire was a boring writer and sex is one of the greatest things there is.

HE MISSED THE WOMAN, missed her more than blue could cover.