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Quotes About Regret

At the end of time, when the many become one, the last storm shall gather its angry winds to destroy a land already dying. And at its center, the blind man shall stand upon his own grave. There he shall see again, and weep for what has been wrought.
~ Robert Jordan
Better ten days of love than years of regretting
~ Robert Jordan
Who we were is lost to all men, and life is bitter.
~ Robert Jordan
Anger made for hasty decisions and rash words that sometimes were hard to take back.
~ Robert Jordan
A man who thinks all day about the catch he missed because of stormy weather ends up wasting time when the sky is clear.
~ Robert Jordan
Wishing she could scratch, Morgase also wished that the other woman had not taken her so to heart about the dress not fitting very well. Stuffing the low-necked gown away under the bed, her old nurse had muttered some saying about displaying wares you did not mean to sell, and when Morgase claimed she had just made it up, her reply was At my age, if I make it up, it's still an old saying .Morgase more than half-suspected that her itchy, ill-draped dress was punishment for that gown.
~ Robert Jordan
I knew an old Illianer woman; once," she said slowly. "When she was young, her mother arranged a marriage for her with a man she had never even met. They do that down in Illian, sometimes. She said she spent the first five years raging against him, and the next five scheming to make his life miserable without his knowing who was to blame. It was only years later, she said, when he died, that she realized he really had been the love of her life." "I
~ Robert Jordan
Perhaps I also dwell too much on what is gone. And yet, the groves were beautiful.
~ Robert Jordan
Un soldado que se culpa por la muerte de sus compañeros en la batalla es un necio.
~ Robert Jordan
Lo hecho, hecho estaba, y él tendría que vivir con ello. La muerte sería una liberación de todo aquello con lo que tenía que vivir.
~ Robert Jordan
Ride on if you wish, you say. Once, there was a soldier loved a queen from afar, knowing it was hopeless, knowing he could never dare speak. Now the queen is gone, and only a woman remains, and I hope. I burn with hope! If
~ Robert Jordan
They came over the Dragonwall like a flood," Tam said suddenly, in a strong, angry voice, "and washed the land with blood. How many died for Laman's sin?
~ Robert Jordan
Who are you that addresses me so? Hide your face from me, stranger. I had a son, once, with a face like that. I do not wish to see it on a killer.
~ Robert Jordan
At the sight of her, sadness and loss rolled over him, worse
~ Robert Jordan
I said you were a fucking monster! Look at what you made me do! Just fucking look! She was carrying a baby! A BABY! You made me kill a fucking BABY!
~ Robert Kirkman
He's dead Tyreese, you killed him. Dear god, man you killed him. Yeah, leave me, he'll be coming back soon, and I'm going to kill him again. Slower this time.
~ Robert Kirkman
They never listened until it was too late, and then only with stern forbearance and strong reminders of what might have been—had things been as they were perceived to be, which they were not.
~ Robert Ludlum
They never let you live it down. One little mistake!- Nero
~ Robert Lynn Asprin
had sold his soul, and that is something you can never repurchase at any price.
~ Robert M. Edsel
What I would like to do is use the time that is coming now to talk about some things that have come to mind. We're in such a hurry most of the time we never get much chance to talk. The result is a kind of endless day-to-day shallowness, a monotony that leaves a person wondering years later where all the time went and sorry that it's all gone.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Here by far the most frustrating gumption trap is inadequate tools. Nothing's quite so demoralizing as a tool hang-up. Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Just a sort of unexplained sadness that comes each afternoon when the new day is gone forever and there's nothing ahead but increasing darkness. The orange
~ Robert M. Pirsig
Buy good tools as you can afford them and you'll never regret it.
~ Robert M. Pirsig
There are those nights wehn you're pushing thirty and life seems over. When you feel like you'll never tie up any ends and no one iwll ever kiss your lips again.
~ Robert McLiam Wilson