Quotes About Regret

Se me partía el corazón, así que en un descuido de Tata María abrí la ventana y temblando de frío, o quien sabe de qué, grité: —¡Espérame, Gavrila, espérame…! Y me esperó tanto que todavía está ahí, con su mano levantada, saludándome. En ese tiempo, en ese lugar indefinible donde se guarda lo más profundo y, quizá, lo más inexplicable de la memoria.

As she lived and suffered - was that redundant? - she discovered God in the most unusual places, sensed calm in the most tumultuous times. She had learned her way to and from, but especially through the dark passages of pain and regret. She had discovered how to sit still through the urgency of life.

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

All the good writers of confessions, from Augustine onwards, are men who are still a little in love with their sins.

Yet, every now and then, there would pass a young girl, slender, fair and desirable, arousing in young men a not ignoble desire to possess her, and stirring in old men regrets for ecstasy not seized and now forever past.

La maison de mon coeur est prête Et ne s'ouvre qu'à l'avenir. Puisqu'il n'est rien que je regrette, Mon bel époux, tu peux venir.

A man cannot free himself from the past more easily than he can from his own body.

Many of you, I'm sure, don't like your jobs. But imagine if someone told you right now that your story about me would be your last. After this, you'll never be able to write another word for as long as you live. How would you feel?

For our excess we lost everything.

Regret was Fear's big sister

Popii zic c? omul e osândit pentru p?catele sale, îl paÈ™te iadul, focul veÈ™nic. Dar adev?rata pedeaps? nu-i asta... ci dispariÈ›ia femeii iubite... cum s? spun? Da, cea care dispare în femeia care continua s? tr?iasc? cu tine...

Fiecare duce, în noapte, o amintire a lui.

From my novel "Broken Things" (Lighthouse Publishing of the Carolinas): Those eyes had haunted his dreams?and nightmares too?for over a quarter of a century. "I wanted to tell you Allie's in town. Allie Drake. You remember her, don't you?" Jack's gaze shifted back to his brother's grinning face and suddenly he wanted to pop Steve right in the nose. Did he remember Allie Drake? What a stupid question!

The memory of the aged becomes clearer and clearer with time. It has no pity.

Getting seasick?" the inspector asked him at one point. "No. Just sick of myself." "Why?" "Because every now and then I realize what a stupid shit I am to go along with some of your brilliant ideas.

Lo so come ti senti. È come essere dietro un vetro, non puoi toccare niente di quello che vedi. Ho passato tre quarti della mia vita chiuso fuori, finché ho capito che l'unico modo è romperlo. E se hai paura di farti male, prova a immaginarti di essere già vecchio e quasi morto, pieno di rimpianti.

Magari uno rimpiange di aver perso qualcosa, e l'ha perso solo per trovare qualcosa di meglio.

You could waste your whole life worrying, you know that?

Only once. She called, asked could we send her two thousand dollars—two thousand more than the four she already stole when she left.

Truth is, Dad, I don't blame Judge Parker," he said quietly. "I mouthed off pretty bad in court. He could've given me sixty days in jail, or even ninety. I've got no gripe with him. It was my own fault—all of it.

The problem with people like us is that we don't die properly.

The urge is always with me to retouch yesterday's canvas with today's paintbrush and cover the things that fill me with regret

I believe that if you don not listen to your heart on this matter, you will regret it forever.