Quotes About Regret

Now, he numbly stands stock-still, in abject fear that this whole catastrophe may well be his doing.

I'm not afraid of her," she said. "That's just the way old women are. I'm not afraid of anybody. I feel sorry for them, coming to me someday begging me to forgive 'em because they didn't realize I was going to turn out so rich and famous.

I will not die an unlived life.

Pink All I'm saying is that if I ever start referring to these as the best years of my life - remind me to kill myself.

Vietnam was worse than immoral — it was a mistake.

The only exercise I get is swimming through the ashes of bridges I have burned

As Benjamin Franklin is thought to have wisely advised, "Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

Stoker to Veronica. I thought it was love but I was so very wrong. I have never known love at least not until..... I thought at some point I would have a great love like that. A woman fashioned by the gods just for me as I had been made just for her. That we would find each other. That she was waiting for me but I did not wait for her. I married a base metal when the gods had promised me gold.

in that moment I would have sold my soul to a tinker to be anywhere else.

Children know nothing beyond the upbringing they have. It is only adults who regret what they lacked.

Too late, I understood the magnitude of a woman's vulnerability in marriage, how every particle of her happiness depends upon her choosing well. And I had chosen unwisely.

Within a month the ring was gone, pawned to pay a debt, and I realized what I had done. I had shackled myself to a man who could not be trusted, upon whom I could never truly depend. Too late, I understood the magnitude of a woman's vulnerability in marriage, how every particle of her happiness depends upon her choosing well. And I had chosen unwisely.

He was remembering not the woman who had come before, but the promise of happiness he had glimpsed once and never thought to know again.

The young are often unjust. But in time I hope she will come to see that I am not the villainess she believed. I did everything in my power to save my husband from ruin. Instead I caused it.

I stared down into the opengrave and wished that I could summon a tear. Violent weeping would have been in exceedingly poor taste, but Miss Nell Harbottle had been my guardian for the whole of my life, and a tear of two would have been a nice gesture of respect

I didn't go out with him again. Uncut,

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.'" "A

I can only quote Xenocrates, dear lady. 'I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

Sometimes good choices are really bad ones, wrapped up in so much fear you can't even see straight.

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.