Quotes About Regret

Lo que hiciste estuvo mal, Amir jan, pero no olvides que cuando los hechos sucedieron tú eras un niño. Un niño con problemas. Por aquel entonces eras demasiado duro contigo mismo, y sigues siéndolo...

I miss Father, and Mother too, he croaked. And I miss Sasa and Rahim Khan sahib. But sometimes I'm glad they're not ... they're not here anymore. Why? I touched his arm. He drew back. Because-- he said, gasping and hitching between sobs, because I don't want them to see me... I'm so dirty. He sucked in his breath and let it out in a long, wheezy cry. I'm so dirty and full of sin.

Khaled Hosseini

I tried to conjure Ali's frozen face, to REALLY see his tranquil eyes, but time can be a greedy thing - sometimes it steals all the details for itself.

Part of me thinks it is better to go on as we have, to act as though we don't know how ill suited we have been for each other. Less painful that way. Perhaps better than this belated offering. This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

But I appealed unto thy heart in vain, and now is the time gone for meeting…

Talvez compreender apenas quando as coisas já não têm remédio seja o castigo justo para os que não tiveram coração.

The loss was hard on Hassan—it always hurts more to have and lose than to not have in the first place.

The past held only this wisdom: that love was a damaging mistake, and its accomplice, hope, a treacherous illusion.

I opened my mouth, almost said something. Almost. The rest of my life might have turned out differently if I had. But I didn't.

For you a thousand times over - Kite Runner

Intotdeauna e mai dureros sa ai si sa pierzi, decat sa nu fi avut deloc.

My eyes returned to our suitcases. They made me sad for Baba. After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life: one disappointing son and two suitcases. Someone

it's wrong what they say about the past, I've learned, about how you can bury it. Because the past claws its way out.

Dio mene misli da je bolje da nastavimo kao i dosad, da se ponašamo kao da ne znamo koliko smo zanemarivali jedno drugo. Tako je manje bolno. Možda je bolje nego ova zakasnjela ponuda. Ovaj krhki, uzdrhtao nagovještaj kako su stvari mogle izgledati izme?u nas. Iz toga ?e se samo izroditi žaljenje, kažem sebi, a kakva korist od žaljenja? Ono ništa ne može vratiti. Ono što smo izgubili je nepovratno.

Come, There is a way to be good again

trebala sam biti pažljivija. Nitko zbog toga ne zažali. Nikad si u starosti ne?eš re?i: Eh, da barem nisam bila tako pažljiva prema toj osobi. Nikad to ne pomisliš.

All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I think everything he did, feeding the poor on the streets, building the orphanage, giving money to friends in need, it was all his way of redeeming himself. And that, I believe, is what true redemption is, Amir jan, when guilt leads to good.

maybe, just maybe, I would finally be pardoned for killing my mother.

Khaled Hosseini

She could not give him his son back. In this most essential way, she had failed him—seven times she had failed him—and now she was nothing but a burden to him. She could see it in the way he looked at her, when he looked at her. She was a burden to him.

Khaled Hosseini

You're afraid, Nana, she might have said. You're afraid that I might find the happiness you never had. And you don't want me to be happy. You don't want a good life for me. You're the one with the wretched heart.