Quotes About Regret

They were so pretty," she said. And then she died.

You may always feel regret over what happened that night, Bertie. But that doesn't mean you can't move on with your life. You were brave tonight," said Warden Ita. "But it takes a different kind of bravery to talk to the ones we love, ask forgiveness, and move on. Sometimes all we can do is take one step at a time.

That night, in the deep heat of Greece, devoured by mosquitoes and reminiscences, I was thinking about all the doors I had closed in my life and what it would have taken to keep them ajar.

she had gone too far into the unhappiness of the world to start all over again.

Shame does something to a man. It makes him forget those he loves. It makes a good man do bad things.

You happy you got her to run away?" "Thrilled to death," he replied bitterly as he closed the door behind her.

The absence of love isn't necessarily hate. But I do hate what you did.

a lonely old man.

Now my future is all behind me …

I was stubborn like that, refusing to let my heart redefine how I operated. Looking back, there is a part of me that wants to replace the word 'stubborn' with 'reckless'; there are many things I would do differently now, but what good does it do to retrace your steps? Sometimes you simply do the things you do, and it doesn't necessarily help to pick on the "old you" by proclaiming how smart the new you is.

You must be jesting. What happened down there is one of the most mortifying moments of my life. Why on earth would I point it out to you if you'd forgotten all about it?" His eyes widened. "Forgotten about it? Forgotten about it? Sweetheart, I have replayed those moments in my mind a hundred times, at least.

You become the victim of the past, and your tormentor today is your self left over from yesterday.

Sin in haste, repent at leisure.")

Si eres demasiado impulsivo, la ira, el miedo y el deseo escaparán a tu control. Y eso conduce a las acciones apresuradas y al arrepentimiento posterior. Si controlas demasiado tus impulsos, tu vida se convierte en una existencia fría y reprimida. Y eso conduce a la falta de vínculos con los demás y con tus propios instintos básicos.

A big desire is not enough to meet the expectations of lost dreams.

He will understand when it is too late that it is easier to love.

It would be sad if my best work had been 20 years ago and now I only had memories.

Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.

I decline to buy repentance at the cost of ten thousand drachmas.

L'esprit de l'escalier [staircase wit].

Sometimes what I wouldn't give to have us sitting in a bar again at 9:00 a.m. telling lies to one another, far from God.

How could I do it, how could a person go that low? And I understand your question, to which I reply, Are you kidding? That's nothing. I'd been much lower than that. And I expected to see myself do worse.

I'll never forget you. Your husband will beat you with an extension cord and the bus will pull away leaving you standing there in tears, but you were my mother.

I wandered over across the hall where they were showing a short movie about vasectomies. Much later I told her that I'd actually gotten a vasectomy a long time ago, and somebody else must have gotten her pregnant. I also told her once that I had inoperable cancer and would soon be passed away and gone, eternally. But nothing I could think up, no matter how dramatic or horrible, ever made her repent or love me the way she had at first, before she really knew me.