Quotes About Regret

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. Foer, Jonathan Safran (2006-04-04). Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close: A Novel (Kindle Locations 1939-1940). Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. Kindle Edition.

Herschel was a Jew. And he was my best friend. He was his best friend. And I murdered him.

Razmišljam o svemu što sam u?inila.I o svemu što nisam u?inila.Pogreške su za mene mrtve.Ali ne mogu povu?i stvari koje nikada nisam u?inila.

I have suffered so much more than I needed to. And the joys I have felt have not always been joyous. I could have lived differently.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently.

sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all of the lives I'm not living.

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar.     Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life.

Despite the near-constant regret he felt about being himself, he never confused himself for the problem. The problem was the world. It was the world that didn't fit. But how much happiness has ever resulted from correcting the record on the culpability of the world?

But that slip of paper wouldn't disappear, ever, and neither would the image of his prostrate wife, and neither would the thought that if he could, it might greatly improve his life to end it.

It is a shame that we have to live but it is a tragedy that we get to live only one life.

Maybe we're just missing things we've lost, or hoping for what we want to come.

Even if Lady Macbeth could have removed that damn spot, wouldn't her hands have been red from all of the scrubbing?

I don't speak," he wrote, "I'm sorry.

It's better to lose something than never to have had

Yankel's lipstick autobiography came flaking off his bedroom ceiling, falling gently like blood-stained snow to his bed and floor. You are Yankel. You love Brod. You are a Sloucher. You were once married, but she left you. You don't believe in an afterlife.

that night was the first time your mother and I made love since I returned, and the last time we ever made love, it didn't feel like the last time, I'd kissed Anna for the last time, seen my parents for the last time, spoken for the last time, why didn't I learn to treat everything like it was my last time, my greatest regret is how much I believed in the future

it broke my heart into more pieces than my heart was made of, why can't people say what they mean at the time?

I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live, Oskar. Because if I were able to live my life again, I would do things differently. I would change my life. I would kiss my piano teacher, even if he laughed at me. I would jump with Mary on the bed, even if I made a fool of myself. I would send out ugly photographs, thousands of them.

Kötü kiÅŸi, kötü eylemlerini keder etmeyen kimsedir.

It's better to lose than never to have had. I lost something I never had. You had everything.

I looked for her all day but didn't see her, not in the yard, not through a window, I promised myself I would stay until I found her, but as night began to come in, I knew I had to go home, I hated myself for going, why couldn't I be the kind of person who stays?

I'd been someone else in a different world I'd've done something different, but I was myself, and the world was the world, so I was silent.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living