Quotes About Regret

Her dilemma—the eternal human dilemma—is that she wants a chance to revisit her choices with full knowledge of the future.

She had no intention of breaking anyone's heart, except maybe her own.

I'm sorry,' Finn mumbled, a global apology for everything he was, and everything he was not, and all the ways he couldn't let it go.

Those who cry to be young again should think twice before they seal those prayers.

How about giving your old man a break here, huh, Chirp? Chirp is dead, I hear myself say and watch the flat words destroy his pleasure. You killed her, and now you have to deal with me because I'm what's left.

I'll regret it for the rest of my life, Rush, but I was fucking seventeen years old. We're morons at seventeen. We think everything we do is right-- that nothing has a consequence.

They say not to look back, but if you're not sure what lies ahead, what else is there but looking back?

You cannot miss what you never had, but you can miss forever the man you loved and lost.

I will go to my grave seeing the look on your face at the last. Keep it up and you'll go sooner than later.

She doesn't understand what she's asking, Jean-Claude said. No, but she asks, and if we do not do it, we will always wonder. I would rather thy and fail than regret having never tried at all.

Damn you,' I said softly and with feeling. He smiled. 'We've been over that, ma petite; you are too late.

I have seen enough for two lifetimes. Maybe three, but I was very drunk at the time. -Marjorie Liu, The Tangleroot Palace

If you're looking for forgiveness, pray. God may forgive you; I won't.

There was a look on his face that was hard to describe. The devil must look like that after you've signed on the dotted line and given away your soul.

You're like great Shakespearean tragedy.

I made myself say the name, at least in my own head. My therapist said I felt guilty about his death. Damn straight I did.

L'hai uccisa tu, Peter, e più di così non puoi vendicarti. Una volta che li hai ammazzati non puoi fare altro». La vendetta è sempre la parte più facile. La parte più difficile arriva in seguito, cioè convivere con la consapevolezza di ciò che si è fatto, e di ciò che si è dovuto sopportare, o che è stato inflitto ai propri cari.

Angel started to cry on the way. "I am so sorry, Anita." The thick Goth eye makeup started to run down her face like black tears. She needed to switch brands. Mine didn't run like that. Thank you, Dior.

I dropped the blood-coated chair leg and collapsed to my knees. I couldn't swallow. I couldn't breathe. I was splattered with blood. I'd never beaten someone to death before. It had felt good.

Our distance has lived in me like the aftermath of a bad dream-I carry it around, the knowledge that we were once close, that something was lost; it's the lingering sadness of unfinished business. (18)

I think I'll always love him.

creeping dread that comes when you know you've been in the wrong and have no idea how to make it right again, because you weren't aware of having done anything wrong in the first place.

An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences. You coulda done plenty, Joey. I never gave you a chance.

An old man's errors mattered both more and less than a young man's. More because there was less time to undo them; less because there was less time to endure their consequences.