Quotes About Regret

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.

God sends the dawn that we might see the might-have-beens that still might be.

It's curious the way we get nostalgic for some hoped-for thing that never happened, as if something that never happened were in the past.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

The sad rhyme of the men who proudly clung To their first fault, and withered in their pride.

Dear dead women, with such hair, too—what's become of all the goldUsed to hang and brush their bosoms? I feel chilly and grown old.

Paracelsus At times I almost dream I too have spent a life the sages' way, And tread once more familiar paths. Perchance I perished in an arrogant self-reliance Ages ago; and in that act a prayer For one more chance went up so earnest, so Instinct with better light let in by death, That life was blotted out — not so completely But scattered wrecks enough of it remain, Dim memories, as now, when once more seems The goal in sight again.

But, oh! fell death's untimely frost,That nipt my flower sae early.

Here she was back in the brightly lit world she had been avoiding for twenty years, and it was exactly as awful as she remembered it.

Suddenly I wanted the earlier version back, but there was no retrieving it. When I blurred the lines to soften them it was as if she began to disappear.

Vanished children, I can't think where I lost them...

Turk had once killed a man, and he had built a life on the foundation of that guilt.

Alienar-se de suas inclinações só pode resultar em dor e decepção no longo prazo, e à sensação de que desperdiçou algo único. Essa dor se manifestará sob a forma de amargura e inveja, embora você não reconheça a verdadeira fonte de sua depressão.

We often notice a similar sensation of confusion and helplessness when it comes to ourselves and our own behavior. For instance, we suddenly say something that offends our boss or colleague or friend— we are not quite sure where it came from, but we are frustrated to find that some anger and tension from within has leaked out in a way that we regret.

the wise man never assumes anything, never regrets anything, is never wrong, never changes his mind.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

He glanced around the reading room and closed his eyes, trying to keep hold of the past for a minute longer, a fattening and hungover middle-aged historian in a black corduroy suit.

Once in a lifetime You get to have it all But you never knew you had it Till you go and lose it all.

Mashiara. Beloved of heart and soul, it meant, but a love lost, too. Lost beyond regaining.

A woman's love can be violent. Sometimes they hurt a man worse than they think they have, worse than they mean to. Sometimes, they're even sorry afterwards.

Just because fate has chosen something for you instead of you choosing it for yourself doesn't mean it has to be bad. Even if it's something you are sure you would never have chosen in a hundred years. 'Better ten days of love than years of regretting,' " she quoted.

Almost ten years past now that Edeyn had watched him ride away from Fal Moran, and been gone when he returned, yet he still could recall her face more clearly than that of any woman who had shared his bed since. He was no longer a boy, to think that she loved him just because she had chosen to become his first lover, yet there was an old saying among Malkieri men. Your carneira wears part of your soul as a ribbon in her hair forever. Custom strong as law made it so.

Weep for Manetheren. Weep for what is lost forever.