Quotes About Regret

Nothing expresses remorse better than silence.

You never know when your number is called, just don't get caught holding a bag of regrets.

I recently turned down a film that I didn't want my kids to see. Priorities shift. Sometimes I'm sad about that, but not enough to do anything about it.

How could people, I wondered for the ten thousandth useless time, how could people who had loved so dearly come to such a wilderness; and yet the change in us was irreversible, and neither of us would even search for a way back. It was impossible. The fire was out. Only a few live coals lurked in the ashes, searing unexpectedly at the incautious touch.

Infinite sadness is not to trust an old friend.

I couldn't believe it. Something as simple as a walk with my daddy was something I'd never done.

The whelp went home, and went to bed. If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.

C'est beau, j'ai dit. – Oui. Je n'aurais jamais dû partir. – Si. Comme ça tu es revenu. Il

Quand je mourrai, je regretterai surtout de savoir que périssent les yeux qui l'ont vue et le cÅ"ur qui l'a contemplée.

In life we all have an unspeakable secret, an irreversible regret, an unreachable dream and an unforgettable love.

Den größten Fehler, den man im Leben machen kann, ist, immer Angst zu haben, einen Fehler zu machen.

wish we'd stayed at home if you keep picking on her.' He followed them into the house. 'I'm sorry, Angel. I didn't mean to upset you. It's

il tempo è fuggito tanto velocemente che l'animo non è riuscito ad invecchiare.

That's silly, it always happens at the last moment – it's so tiresome packing,' said Drogo purposely, as if he had not understood her undertone of feeling. It needed a word, a simple phrase to tell her that he was sorry she was leaving. But Drogo did not want to ask for anything – at that moment he was really not capable of it, he would have felt he was lying. So he said nothing and gave a vague smile.

davvero non ci fosse nulla, soltanto un nero macigno assomigliante a una monaca, e che i suoi occhi si fossero ingannati, un po' di stanchezza, null'altro, una stupida allucinazione. Ora sentiva perfino un'ombra di opaca amarezza, come quando le gravi ore del destino ci passano vicine senza toccarci e il loro rombo si perde lontano mentre noi rimaniamo soli, fra gorghi di foglie secche, a rimpianger la terribile ma grande occasione perduta.

o que era bom ficou para trás, muito para trás, e ele passou adiante, sem dar por isso. Ah, é demasiado tarde para voltar; atrás dele aumento o fragor da multidão que o segue, impelida pela mesma ilusão, mas ainda invisível na branca estrada deserta.

Ho detto il Natale più bello che ricordo. Perché bello non significa soltanto bello ma può significare anche terribile e profondo. Anzi. Le più grandi bellezze, in questo mondo, forse stanno proprio qui. Nel dolore, nel rimpianto di ciò che è stato e non sarà più, nella nostra solitudine, della quale noi in genere non ci accorgiamo, o preferiamo non pensarci. Ma verrà il giorno.

I hate the past and for that matter the present

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

At the end of the night they all seemed so happy. Maybe it was just because they hadn't seen each other in a while, but as they all gathered around hugging, kissing, and well-wishing each other, I found myself feeling for the first time in my life like maybe I'd missed out on something.

The wise men say that the remembrance of things past is all that we have for the future, and am I to blame if I've turned up this time as I shouldn't have been, when it was a high soprano I wanted, and deep corn curls to my bum, with a womb as of a fishing schooner? And what do I get but a face on me like an old child's bottom - is that happiness, do you think?

Od kajanja nema gore nesre?e.

And no bathroom on earth will make up for marrying a bearded man you hate.

She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.