Quotes About Regret

In the good old days when times were bad No amount of money could buy from me The memories that I have of then No amount of money could pay me To go back and live through it again

I stupidly ignored education completely. I found it dull and I preferred to cause chaos and have fun. I regret this massively now.

I felt a subtle sense of disappointment as I left the morgue.

The past is more alive to her than the present, she realizes, and the thought is suffocating.

No, no, Claude thought, the past never stops banging at the doors of the present. We pack it into tattered suitcases, lock it into rusting metal trunks beneath our beds, press it between yellowed pages of newsprint, but it hangs over us at night like a poisonous cloud, seeps into our shirt collars and bedclothes.

Colgó, miró hacia el jardín, vio contra el muro los brotecitos verdes, duros como tomates jóvenes, y mientras miraba por la ventana, delante de las camelias al borde de la floración, se apoderó de ella una pena espantosa, una pena que le impedía moverse, que atravesaba el tiempo, que venía, le pareció, de muy lejos, de las horas vacías de la niñez, de una espera que nunca había cesado. Le cortó el aliento hasta tal punto que no podía respirar.

The absolute negative, the ultimate saying of no to the world, when it is just too late. And always the subtle conviction that if you had said No a moment earlier, it would none of it have happened. But the saying of no comes too late by a little. You are always a little too late in saying it.

Talent is more erotic when it's wasted.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

what in hellhave i done to deserveall these kittens

my youth i shall never forget but there s nothing i really regret wotthehell wotthehell there s a dance in the old dame yet toujours gai toujours gai

Pablo Mora has one of those hangovers where you see yourself in the mirror and think you look familiar.

Shit," Pablo says.

You can no more cut yourself away from the past than you can cut out your own heart.

would have' is just another way of saying 'didn't.

Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.

Theres always the tension between losing an audience and doing the odd things you might want to try. The effort is always to make what you write nourishing or useful to readers. You do cut out some readers by idiosyncrasies of form. I regret this.

If buyer's remorse ever accomplished anything in this world," Max said, "we'd all still be living in caves.

It's only the fool who, because he's fallen once from grace, believes he should never have tried to be in the state of grace to begin with.

Well, god damn it," Cayzer said. "Sometimes I don't know if I was stupid all my life or if I'm just getting stupid with old age. Come on along, you can ask them yourself.

I don't believe in fear - I live my life without regrets.

Life is too short to learn German

I've succeeded at everything except my life.

Man spends his life in reasoning on the past, in complaining of the present, in fearing future.