Quotes About Regret

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we might have wished?

So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were doing all of this too late; that there'd once been a time for it, but we'd let that go by, and there was something ridiculous, reprehensible eve, about the way we were now thinking and planning.

If we'd understood that back then-who knows?-maybe we'd have kept a tighter hold of one another.

What is the point of worrying oneself too much about what one could or could not have done to control the course one's life took?

So that feeling came again, even though I tried to keep it out: that we were doing all of this too late; that there'd once been a time for it, but we'd let that go by, and there was something ridiculous, reprehensible even, about the way we were now thinking and planning.

Of course, it is tragic that so many of his generation died as they did, but why must he harbour such bitterness for his elders?

It was bad luck for poor old Tommy.

A fost ca la È™ah, când faci o miÈ™care È™i, chiar în clipa în care îÈ›i iei degetul de pe pies?, îÈ›i dai seama de greÈ™eala f?cut? È™i intri în panic?, fiindc? nu cunoÈ™ti înc? dimensiunea dezastrului pe care l-ai provocat f?r? s? vrei.

What I'm saying is that we were all of us struggling to adjust to our new life, and I suppose we all did things back then we later regretted. I was really upset by Ruth's remark at the time, but it's pointless now trying to judge her or anyone else for the way they behaved during those early days at the Cottages.

A existat o alt? via?? pe care a? fi avut-o, dar o am pe aceasta...

Y se resumía en lo siguiente: lo estábamos haciendo demasiado tarde. Había habido un tiempo para ello, pero lo habíamos dejado pasar, y había algo de ridículo, e incluso de censurable, en el modo en que ahora concebíamos y planeábamos nuestro futuro.

Tommy, you don't seem very pleased for me," I said, though in an obviously jokey voice. "I am pleased for you, Kath. It's just that, well, I wish I'd found it." Then he did a small laugh and went on: "Back then, when you lost it, I used to think about it, in my head, what it would be like, if I found it and brought it to you. What you'd say, your face, all of that.

She laughed and said: "Because nothing. I'd like you to forgive me, but I don't expect you to. Anyway, that's not the half of it, not even a small bit of it, actually. The main thing is, I kept you and Tommy apart." Her voice had dropped again, almost to a whisper. "That was the worst thing I did.

Bu çox qÉ™ddar and?r. Sanki ömrün boyu hÉ™r gün yan?ndan ötdüyün güzgü sÉ™nÉ™ qÉ™fildÉ™n baÅŸqa ÅŸey, É™zab verÉ™n qÉ™ribÉ™ bir ÅŸey göstÉ™rir.

Ama seni gördüm ve yüreÄŸim s?zlad?. Bunu asla unutmad?m.

When the hour's too late for rescue, it's still early enough for revenge

For a long time, I was very unhappy, very unhappy indeed. ... occasions now and then -- extremely desolate occasions -- when you think to yourself: What a terrible mistake I've made with my life. And you get to thinking about a different life, a better life you might have had.

What made the tape so special for me was this one particular song: track number three, "Never Let Me Go.

Así que si lo he entendido bien..., bien, pues parece que he desperdiciado mi oportunidad.

And I tried to imagine how I would feel if Rosa and I, a long time from now, long after we'd found our different homes, saw each other again by chance on a street. Would I then feel, as Manager had put it, pain alongside my happiness? *

Perhaps, then, there is something to his advice that I should cease looking back so much, that I should adopt a more positive outlook and try to make the best of what remains of my day. After all, what can we ever gain in forever looking back and blaming ourselves if our lives have not turned out quite as we had wished?

But Axl, we can't even remember those days. Or any of the years between. We don't remember our fierce quarrels or the small moments we enjoyed and treasured. We don't remember our son or why he's away from us.

One can't be forever dwelling on what might have been.

És legalább az a kiváltsága megvolt, hogy élete végén elmondhatta: a saját hibáit követte el. (…) Megválasztotta, hogy milyen úton járjon az életben, s kiderült, hogy rosszul választott. Ami viszont engem illet, hát még ezt sem mondhatom el.