Quotes About Regret

Was it this image of the woman she once was that made her fingers tremble? Or did she feel for this man in her bed who'd quietly started weeping for reasons she didn't understand?

The Second Mate closed his eyes for a moment. He removed his shoes, and now he had none. The look in his eyes said that the wrongest thing that had ever happened was happening right now. And then the shoes slipped from his hand and into the water. He pretended to look at the horizon so that no one would see his face.

But people do things to survive, and then after they survive, they can't live with what they've done.

You only taste your own dignity right before you puke it up.

Ty mnie zabi?e?! - ty mnie nauczy?e? czyta?! W pi?knych ksi?gach i pi?knym przyrodzeniu czyta?! Ty dla mnie ziemi? piek?em zrobi?e? (z ?alem i u?miechem) i rajem! (mocniej i ze wzgard?) A to jest tylko ziemia!

Serce usta?o, pier? ju? lodowata, ?ci??y si? usta i oczy zawar?y; Na ?wiecie jeszcze, lecz ju? nie dla ?wiata! Có? to za cz?owiek? - Umar?y.

Pola?y si? ?zy me czyste, rz?siste Na me dzieci?stwo sielskie, anielskie, Na moj? m?odo?? górn? i durn?, Na mój wiek m?ski, wiek kl?ski; Pola?y si? ?zy me czyste, rz?siste…

Skutki sza?u, Albo mo?e kuglarstwo? - S? kosztowne bronie, Których ostrze przenika i a? w duszy tonie; Przecie? widomie nie uszkodz? cia?u. Tak? broni? po dwakro? zosta?em przebity... (po pauzie z u?miechem) Tak? broni? za ?ycia s? oczy kobiéty, (ponuro) A po ?mierci grzesznika cierpi?cego skrucha!

Nothing I know matters more Than what never happened. John Burnside, 'Hearsay

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

Statements like these say to the child, "I don't like what you did, and I expect you to take care of it." We hope that later on in life, as an adult, when he does something he regrets, he'll think to himself, "What can I do to make amends—to set things right again?," rather than "What I just did proves I'm an unworthy person who deserves to be punished.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

I'm at the stage of the job when you just wish you hadn't started.

My bottom belly was gone! I'd contemplated having that thing sucked out many times, but if you've ever had a face-lift and a brow lift and felt the pain of that, it makes you pause before doing anything else too invasive.

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

I am a victum of an error of judgement

Go ahead, kill without mercy. After all, who remembers today the Armenian Genocide

Why could I not have been born a hundred years ago? I used to ask myself. Somewhere about the time of the Wars of Liberation, when a man was still of some value even though he had no 'business.

Perché non ero nato cent'anni prima? Al tempo della guerra, quando un uomo valeva qualcosa anche se non teneva bottega?

I missed out on everything. Sometimes on the street I see teenagers hanging out and going to the movies, going to concerts, and I get so jealous.

You are every woman I ever loved and disavowed.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

I exist only in the past.

I think there's something inherently dishonest in trying to go back and mess with the past.