Quotes About Regret

There's a Chinese saying. 'When is the best time to plant a tree? Twenty years ago.' " The Chinese engineer smiles. "Good one." " 'When is the next best time? Now.' " "Ah! Okay!" The smile turns real. Until today, he has never planted anything. But Now, that next best of times, is long, and rewrites everything.

I'll tell you one thing, though. It's a terrible thing to be a disappointment to a good woman.

One of the odd things about middle age, he concluded, was the strange decisions a man discovers he's made by not really making them, like allowing friends to drift away through simple neglect.

I've always known that there's more going on inside me than finds its way into the world, but this is probably true of everyone. Who doesn't regret that he isn't more fully understood?

Ted Valentine got up from his chair and walked over to me. He stuck out his hand and said, "I'm horribly sorry.

sentimental realism. Putin insisted that 'He who does not regret the break-up of the Soviet Union has no heart; he who wants to revive it in its previous form has no head'.36 Many in

leaving my past is like jumping of a burning buiding. except jumping is a one way trip. You can't change your mind halfway down

Live desired in the world, and die lamented.

We pull our boots on with both hands but we can't punch ourselves awake and all I can do is stand on the curb and say Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine. I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time.

We're shooting the scene where I swallow your heart and you make me spit it up again. I swallow your heart and it crawls right out of my mouth. You swallow my heart and flee, but I want it back now, baby. I want it back.

I don't really blame you for being dead but you can't have your sweater back.

The narrator blames the birds. And you want to blame the birds as well. I blamed the birds for a long time. But in this story everyone is hungry, even the birds. And at this point in the story so many things have gone wrong, so many bad decisions made, that it's a wonder anyone would want to continue reading.

Someone is digging your grave right now.

I'm sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

Sorry about the blood in your mouth. I wish it was mine.

Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I couldn't come to your party. Dear So-and-So, I'm sorry I came to your party and seduced you and left you bruised and ruined, you poor sad thing.

We have not touched the stars, nor are we forgiven

Sure, I sink the boat of love, but that comes later. And yes, I swallow glass, but that comes later.

Looking back is easy for a while and then looking back gets murky.

And you feel like you've done something terrible, like robbed a liquor store, or swallowed pills, or shoveled yourself a grave in the dirt, and you're tired.

You were very beautiful.

sorry about the scene at the bottom of the stairwell and how I ruined everything by saying it out loud.

Here is the repeated image of the lover destroyed. Crossed out.

I couldn't get the boy to kill me, but I wore his jacket for the longest time. a stone in the hand means somebody's angry, the stone inside you still hasn't hit bottom.