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Quotes About Regret

Why, Geralt? Ciri is normal. She has normal feelings, she accepts emotions naturally, takes them for what they really are. You, obviously, don't understand and are therefore surprised by them. It surprises and irritates you. The fact that someone can experience normal love, normal hatred, normal fear, pain and regret, normal joy and normal sadness.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
An enchantress always takes action. Wrongly or rightly; that is revealed later. But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
No, Chireadan,' he answered. 'I wouldn't disagree. Thank you for the warning. But this only concerns Dandilion. He suffered at my side, in my presence. I didn't manage to save him and I couldn't help him. I'd sit on a scorpion with my bare backside if I knew it would help him.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I don't care a shit about their time. What have I done to them?" groaned Dandelion. "What wrong have I done them?" "Think carefully," said the white-haired elf, approaching without a sound, "and maybe you can answer the question yourself.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
But you should act, be brave, seize life by the scruff of the neck. Believe me, little one, you should only regret inactivity, indecisiveness, hesitation. You shouldn't regret actions or decisions, even if they occasionally end in sadness and regret. -Margarita / The Time of Contempt
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Don't do what you did during supper last time in front of her again.' 'You mean when I threw my fork at that rat?' 'No. I mean when you hit it, even in the dark.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Ile to min??o od... Rok? -Rok, dwa miesi?ce i osiemna?cie dni. -Wzruszasz mnie. Celowo? -Celowo. Yen...
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
asked if you had a hand in this,' she began a moment later. 'But I think there was no need. It's obvious you had a hand in it. It's obvious you are his friend. And if someone has friends, and he loses everything in spite of that, it's obvious the friends are to blame. For what they did, or for what they didn't do.' 'What could I have done?
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Kto to by?, Geralt? - Druh. B?dzie mi go bardzo brak. - By? cz?owiekiem? - Uosobieniem cz?owiecze?stwa (...)
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
JesteÅ› kobietÄ…, o której m??czyzna mo?e tylko marzy?. MojÄ…, tylko mojÄ… winÄ… jest, ?e nie mam natury marzyciela.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
To hell with that! It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Some say everything in the world—everything, with no exception—has a price. It's not true. There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Next time..." Geralt heard the clear whisper, "next time you feel like killing yourself, Witcher, don't drag other people into it. Just hang yourself in the stable from your reins.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Ma ci sono cose... che non si possono ottenere neppure con la magia. E ci sono doni che non si possono ricevere se non si è in grado di ricambiare... con qualcosa di altrettanto prezioso. In caso contrario, un tale dono scivola tra le dita, si scioglie come una scheggia di ghiaccio stretta in mano. Rimane solo il rimpianto, un sentimento di perdita e di torto subito...
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Meglio morire che vivere con la consapevolezza di aver fatto qualcosa che ha bisogno del perdono altrui.»
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
I ask everybody here present for forgiveness. With the exception of the noble lady Yennefer, whom I thank, but ask for nothing. Farewell.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Yes, this... Urcheon... speaks the truth. Roegner did swear to give him that which he did not expect. It looks as if our lamented king was an oaf as far as a woman's affairs are concerned, and couldn't be trusted to count to nine. He confessed the truth on his death-bed, because he knew what I'd do to him if he'd admitted it earlier. He knew what a mother, whose child is disposed of so recklessly, is capable of.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Ho avuto paura. Sono stata vigliacca. E ho pagato per questo. Come paga ogni vigliacco. Col dolore, con la vergogna, con l'umiliazione ignobile. E un terribile disgusto di me stessa.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
There are things with no price, things that are priceless. But you realise it belatedly: when you lose them, you lose them forever and nothing can get them back for you. I have lost many such things.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Lo único que se lamenta es el haber sido inactivo, indeciso, vacilante. Aunque a veces la acción y la decisión producen pena y tristeza, una no se arrepiente de ellas nunca".
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Non mi hai mai detto perché hai deciso di venire con me." "Non me l'hai mai chiesto." "Te lo chiedo ora." "Ora è troppo tardi. Ora non lo so più neanch'io.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Don't shout, Yen, don't be aggressive. And don't drag up that story from Vengerberg, we swore not to go back to it, after all. I don't bear a grudge against you, Yen, I'm not reproaching you, am I? I know you can't be judged by ordinary standards. And the fact that I'm saddened… the fact that I know I'm losing you… is cellular memory. The atavistic remnants of feelings in a mutant purged of emotion—
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
Una maga agisce sempre. Se male o bene si scopre poi. Ma bisogna agire, prendere la vita per i capelli. Credimi, piccola, ci si rammarica solo dell'inattività, dell'irresolutezza, dell'esitazione. Delle azioni compiute e delle decisioni prese, sebbene a volte siano causa di tristezza e dolore, non ci si rammarica.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski
It's better to die than to live in the knowledge that you've done something that needs forgiveness.
~ Andrzej Sapkowski