Quotes About Regret

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it?

Take it back. Sure. Anything. I never heard of Brett Ashley. How's that? No. Not that. About me going to hell. Oh, don't go to hell, I said. Stick around. We're just starting lunch.

He thought of all the time in his life he had spent gambling.

Å koda, že to vÅ¡echno nebyl opravdu jenom sen a tu rybu jsem ulovil. Je mi to líto, rybo. Takhle to skon?it nemÄ›lo.

sentía la soledad de muerte que llega al cabo de cada día de la vida que uno ha desperdiciado.

Maybe I have had all my life in three days, he thought. If that's true I wish we would have spent the last night differently. But last nights are never any good. Last nothings are any good.

and I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

Cómo te arruinaste? —preguntó Bill. —De dos formas: primero poco a poco, y luego de repente.

Avrei bisogno di una pietra, per il coltello» disse il vecchio dopo avere esaminato la legatura sull'impugnatura del remo. «Avrei dovuto portare una pietra.» Avresti dovuto portare molte cose, pensò. Ma non le hai portate, vecchio. Ora non è il momento di pensare a quello che non hai. Pensa a quello che puoi fare con quello che hai.

He missed a lot in his life. -That no one ever knows. Everything in life has it's compensation.

You father was a great man. -But I don't know. It looks to me like, when they turn some man, than there's nothing left of him.

We're no kin, Thomas Hudson said. We just used to live in the same town and make some of the same mistakes.

I'm sorry we haven't been friends. Everybody is friends when things are bad enough. I'm going to be friends from now on. We're all going to do a lot of things from now on, Thomas Hudson said. I wish from now on would start.

I lay awake thinking and my mind jumping around. Then I couldn't keep away from it, and I started to think about Brett and my mind stopped jumping around and started to go in sort of smooth waves. Then all of a sudden I started to cry. (27)

I'm sorry. I've got a nasty tongue. I never mean it when I say nasty things.

I don't love anybody, Krebs said. It wasn't any good. He couldn't tell her, he couldn't make her see it. It was silly to have said it. He had only hurt her.

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I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.

I felt the death loneliness that comes at the end of every day that is wasted in your life

like Ned was killed. We made her go and we hired

The tragedy of a life that is never fully lived is not simply the loss of that one life. The tragedy is the endless number of lives that would have been forever changed if we had chosen to live differently.

Hope cannot exist in the past. That's called regret. Hope can exist only in the future. Faith connects us to the future. It also shifts the parameters of our limitations. When we have assurance in things seen, we are limited by what we have, by what we know, and by what we can prove. When we have assurance in things not seen, we now add to our resources everything that exists in the realm of mystery, uncertainty, and endless possibilities.

El futuro de Dios nunca llegará a nosotros a costa de nuestro carácter. Esta persona a la que yo antes respetaba mucho cometió el trágico error de dejar en su pasado lo que debió haber sido su futuro, y hacer de su futuro lo que debió haber sido su pasado.

Cuando llegues al final de tu vida, ¿podrás decir: "Di todo lo que tenía", o tendrás un sentimiento hueco dentro de tu alma de que te rendiste demasiado pronto, esperaste demasiado poco, que no golpeaste la última flecha?