Quotes About Regret

That's the penalty we have to pay for our acts of foolishness - someone else always suffers for them.

He was trying to make up for lost time and money in a way that showed conclusively he did not understand the value of either.

O sad kissed mouth, how sorrowful it is!

To have known love, how bitter a thing it is.

For no man under the sky lives twice

Ah, had I not taken my life up and given All that life gives and the years let go, The wind and honey, the balm and leaven, The dreams reared high and the hopes brought low? Come life, come death, not a word be said; Should I lose you living, and vex you dead? I never shall tell you on earth; and in heaven, If I cry to you then, will you hear or know?

And the best and the worst of this is, That neither is most to blame, If you've forgotten my kisses, And I've forgotten your name.

And the best and the worst of this is That neither is most to blame, If you have forgotten my kisses And I have forgotten your name.

I dore not always touch her, lest the kiss Leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, Brief, bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

I dare not always touch her, lest the kiss leave my lips charred. Yea, Lord, a little bliss, brief bitter bliss, one hath for a great sin; Nathless thou knowest how sweet a thing it is.

When you play the past over and over in your head, you can begin to see things in it that you missed when you were living it. You come to realize that there were moments when one word said differently, or one thing done at just the right time, would have changed everything.

Unfortunate is he who cannot gain a few sincere friends during his life and more unfortunate is the one who has gained them and then lost them (through his deeds).

It is wiser to abstain then to repent.

In fact all he can remember of her is that he sent her a postcard he wished afterwards he'd kept for himself.

it's the best fish I've ever caught, that fish I didn't catch, cause it's a fish that will always be with me now and never be eaten, it'll never die, that fish I'll never land.

A missed chance, a ruined life.

So you were advised to go to Snappy Snaps already but you chose not to go, the woman says.

But in a world where England is finished and dead,I do not wish to live.

I have seen much to hate here--much to forgive, But in a world where England is finished and dead, I do not wish to live.

Everyone who'd lost something of crucial importance wished he or she could go back to the moment when it was still theirs. The wish was so powerful it seemed it might reverse the direction of time. It bore apparitions and ghosts.

Be careful what you wish for. I know that for a fact. Wishes are brutal, unforgiving things. They burn your tongue the moment they're spoken and you can never take them back.

It was not the future they'd been objecting to, but the loss of the past. As if it was his fault that you could now have one without the other

It's sometimes more torment for a man, Mr. Fagin said, to consider what might have been than to live with what is.

For we did makeup. But we didn't forgive each other. And we didn't take steps. And it got to be too late and we saw that each of us had invested too much in being in the right and we walked away and it was a relief.