Quotes About Regret

Only one thing's sadder than remembering you were once free, and that's forgetting you were once free.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears and never regrets.

I am not afraid of this devil!" he thought of Death. "I simply feel sorry for my life. It is a splendid thing, no matter what the pessimists say about it. What if they were to hang a pessimist? Ah, I feel sorry for life, very sorry!

The graveyard is the richest place on earth, because it is here that you will find all the hopes and dreams that were never fulfilled, the books that were never written, the songs that were never sung, the inventions that were never shared, the cures that were never discovered, all because someone was too afraid to take that first step, keep with the problem, or determined to carry out their dream.

It was a mistake, you said. But the cruel thing was, it felt like the mistake was mine, for trusting you." ? David Levithan, The Lover's Dictionary

I wish I hadn't cried so much!" said Alice, as she swam about, trying to find her way out. I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears !

Well that was the silliest tea party I ever went to! I am never going back there again!

I almost wish I hadn't gone down that rabbit-hole—and yet—and yet—it's rather curious, you know, this sort of life!

It's a poor sort of memory that only works backwards.

I wish I hadn't cried so much!

He thought he saw a Rattlesnake That questioned him in Greek: He looked again, and found it was The Middle of Next Week. 'The one thing I regret,' he said, 'Is that it cannot speak!

Seven years and six months! Humpty Dumpty repeated thoughtfully. 'An uncomfortable sort of age. Now if you'd asked my advice, I'd have said Leave off at seven - but it's too late now.

and had to stoop to save her neck from being broken. She hastily put down the bottle, saying to herself 'That's quite enough—I hope I shan't grow any more—As it is, I can't get out at the door—I do wish I hadn't drunk quite so much!

Why couldn't you have told me so Three quarters of an hour ago, You prince of all the asses?

Sin embargo no tardó en darse cuenta de que estaba en el charco de lágrimas que había llorado cuando medía nueve pies. - ¡Ojalá no hubiese llorado tanto! - dijo Alicia mientras nadaba de un lado al otro, tratando de encontrar la salida-. Supongo que ahora estoy sufriendo el castigo que merezco: ahogarme en mis propias lágrimas.

I shall be punished for it now, I suppose, by being drowned in my own tears!

I didn't mean it!" pleaded poor Alice. "But you're so easily offended, you know!

But forgiveness...I'll hold on to that fragile slice of hope and keep it close, remembering that in each of us lie good and bad, light and dark, art and pain, choice and regret, cruelty and sacrifice. We're each of us our own...bit of illusion fighting to emerge into something solid, something real. We've got to forgive ourselves that. I must remember to forgive myself. Because there's an awful lot of gray to work with. No one can live in the light all the time.

I'm sorry,' he says simply. 'People make mistakes, Gemma. We take the wrong action for the right reasons, and the right action for the wrong reasons.

We are all unkind from time to time. We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds.

There are times when I wish I could go back and change the course of my life. Make different choices...But the past cannot be changed, and we carry our choices with us, forward, into the unknown. We can only move on. Do you remember that I told you that at Spence?

I know it. I know I shall make beastly mistakes, Father- The world does not forgive mistakes so quickly, my girl. He sounds bitter and sad. If the world will not forgive me, I say softly, I shall have to learn to forgive myself. He nods in understanding. And how will you marry? Or do you intend to marry? I think of Kartik, and tears threaten. I shall meet someone one day, as Mother found you.

One could argue that it's romantic to die for love. Of course, then you're dead and unable to take that honeymoon trip to the Alps with all the other fashionable young couples, which is a shame.