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Quotes About Regret

Yeah, I know." The poor girl. I felt very bad
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
I prayed she would haunt me forever. Just because she was dead, she had no right to desert me.
~ Dorothea Benton Frank
If you believe in the mission of Jesus Christ, then you're bound to try to let go of your past, in the sense that you are entitled to his forgiveness. To keep regretting what was is to deny God's grace.
~ Dorothy Day
I hate him for what he's done, but I still love him for the man he was.
~ Dorothy Koomson
Does he understand now that 'what if?' isn't fair when, under a different set of circumstances, you were asked to polarise things into one moment in time, when you had to defend what you wanted at a completely different moment? Kamryn to Luke
~ Dorothy Koomson
It;s all gone. My life is all gone and I can't work out why. I keep looking back over my life...and I can't work out where it all went so wrong. What I did to make this happen.
~ Dorothy Koomson
But" doesn't make an apology, it makes an excuse of your behaviour
~ Dorothy Koomson
No one outside of our family unit would ever guess that away from prying eyes, we were systematically tearing ourselves apart. Away from the outside world, everyone in our family started to fall to pieces, and never really recovered. Even though our times together are always fun and laughter-filled, the closeness we once shared is gone. In its place is guilt, regret, the ability to say the nastiest things and, for the longest minute on earth, mean every word of them
~ Dorothy Koomson
Every time I blinked I saw her: the untroubled face, the motionless body, the detail of her tattoo. Every time I breathed I realised that the woman with the Brighton Mermaid tattoo wasn't going to do that ever again.
~ Dorothy Koomson
Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.
~ Dorothy Koomson
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
~ Dorothy Parker
Four be the things I'd been better without:Love, curiosity, freckles, and doubt.
~ Dorothy Parker
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
~ Dorothy Parker
She had a good memory, too good, perhaps, since it held her imprisoned in the past.
~ Dorothy Whipple
Christmas makes everything twice as sad.
~ Doug Coupland
I am so sorry that I hurt you. I know I'll make many more mistakes as time goes on, but I'll try not to make that one again.
~ Doug Fields
We rarely hear warnings about playing it safe. We don't see headlines that say, ... Man retires after a mediocre career and feels painful remorse for never having laid anything on the line.
~ Doug Sundheim
God's Final Message to His Creation: 'We apologize for the inconvenience.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur: If I asked you where the hell we were, would I regret it? Ford: We're safe. Arthur: Oh good. Ford: We're in a small galley cabin in one of the spaceships of the Vogon Constructor Fleet. Arthur: Ah, this is obviously some strange use of the word safe that I wasn't previously aware of.
~ Douglas Adams
You know," said Arthur, "it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse, and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young." "Why, what did she tell you?" "I don't know, I didn't listen.
~ Douglas Adams
In Heaven (if there is one), we are held accountable for every joy we failed to taste.
~ Douglas Carlton Abrams
All that was left within him longed to just make it right, to just somehow make it right again.
~ Douglas Clegg
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have had other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like a quiet tragedy.
~ Douglas Coupland
Who wouldn't want to go back in time and correct a mistake, right a wrong, change how things turned out? Who wouldn't want to have another chance to win the girl, or hit the home run? To kill Hitler, or invest in Apple or Facebook when they were just emerging? The
~ Douglas E. Richards