Quotes About Regret

Think: What has happened to me? Why am I lying like this on top of my covers with too much Jontue and mascara and jewelry, pretending casually that this is how I always go to bed, while a pervert with six new steak knives is about to sneak through my unlocked door. Remember: at Blakely Falls High, Willis Holmes would have done anything to be with you. You don't have to put up with this: you were second runner-up at the Junior Prom.

She had bought several plain pine chests to use as love seats or boot boxes, but they came to look to her more and more like children's coffins, so she returned them.

One is only young once, but in her case it was once too often.

A pesar de su incalculable riqueza y poder marchaba hacia la muerte con el convencimiento de que moriría sin ser amado ni respetado, y que nadie lloraría por él; que su muerte ya estaba siendo precedida por una reunión de buitres, que finalmente su vida había sido más absurda y menos satisfactoria que la de un retrasado mental congénito sin extremidades ni órganos de reproducción.

There comes a point in life where each one of us who survives begins to feel like a ghost that has forgotten to die at the right time, and certainly most of us were more amusing when we were young. It seems that age folds the heart in on itself. Some of us walk detached, dreaming on the past, and some of us realize that we have lost the trick of standing in the sun.

I am ashamed. I play a diminished chord because I am diminished.

I'm sorry! I really am! I wanted to get out of this place! I want to live! I want to get away from here and never see it again! I hate everything about it! You will hate the next place, too, I said. What you are you will carry with you.

Like I say, I killed a man or two but I'm no thief. My ma raised me better.

He should have been drowned at birth.

But what child in his later years does not wish he had listened when his parents talked among themselves, about themselves, their families, the way they had lived? So often we do not realize how much we could have learned until it is too late and there is no going back.

He did not take chances, but had helped to bury men who did.

when does a man leave a place he has lived without some regret? For each time some part of him is left behind. So

It is wrong to believe that such men suffer in the conscience for what they do Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it is only regret at being caught that troubles them. And they never admit it was any fault of their own Ã¢â'¬Â¦ it was always chance, bad luck.… The criminal does not regret his crime, he only regrets failure.

There is no good time in which to die

I may have ruined my life, but at least I got to eat some really good Chinese food.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo—oo—oon, "If only, if only." Stanley

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was just a little bit softer." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, He cries to the moo—oo—oon, "If only, if only.

What worried him the most, however, wasn't that it was too late. What worried him the most, what really ate at his insides, was the fear that it wasn't too late.

I wish I had no heart, it aches so…

tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.

Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.

A time will come when you will find that in gaining a brief joy you have lost your peace forever.

I should have been a great many things, Mr Mayor

the day had been both unprofitable and unsatisfactory, and he was wishing he could live it over again.