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Quotes About Regret

She has forgotten dying.
~ Dylan Thomas
Perhaps it was in order to be saved, that Adam did what he did. He feared his ruin, the happiness.
~ E M Cioran
It all seems so sad, so unbearably sad for a second, to think of the lovely old maple with the swing. We never told the tree how much we loved it. We never gave it a name, never did anything for it.
~ E. Lockhart
We read all twenty-eight emails. When she is finished, Mirren kisses me on the cheek. "I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
~ E. Lockhart
It tasted like salt and failure.
~ E. Lockhart
By now, you know everything about Jackson Clarke, probably way more than anyone on earth wants to hear. This is all I have to add: I still think about him every day. When I see him, my heart jumps up in my chest. I long for him to talk to me, and whenever he even says hello, I feel a thousand times worse than I did before. I wish he was dead. I wish he still liked me.
~ E. Lockhart
If only she could go back in time, Jule felt, she would be a better person. Or a different person. She would be more herself. Or maybe less herself.
~ E. Lockhart
I can't even say sorry," she tells me. "There is not even a Scrabble word for how bad I feel.
~ E. Lockhart
What a horrible death for those poor, dear, naughty dogs.
~ E. Lockhart
I'd think of these images - people dying, a city drowning - instead of thinking about Rosemary, dying, drowning.
~ E. Lockhart
It could have lived so much longer.
~ E. Lockhart
Don't read my papers," I moan. "Don't." He steps back. "It's up there for anyone to see. Sorry.
~ E. Lockhart
Before we became criminals. Before we became ghosts.
~ E. Lockhart
Why do you hate yourself?" And before I know it, Gat is lying on the bed next to me. His cold fingers wrap around my hot ones, and his face is close to mine. He kisses me. "Because I want things I can't have," he whispers.
~ E. Lockhart
I tore all the roses off a single sad bush and threw them, one after the other, into the angry sea.
~ E. Lockhart
And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking place to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
And maybe, just maybe, he'd come back one day, and burn that fucking palace to the ground.
~ E. Lockhart
Kesempatan kedua, boleh saja. Tapi kesempatan berikut - berikutnya hanya akan jadi kesempatan konyol.
~ E. Lockhart
Ne pas naître est sans contredit la meilleur formule qui soit. Elle n'est malheureusement à la portée de personne
~ E. M. Cioran
Take an old man's word; there's nothing worse than a muddle in all the world. It is easy to face Death and Fate, and the things that sound so dreadful. It is on my muddles that I look back with horror - on the things that I might have avoided. We can help one another but little. I used to think I could teach young people the whole of life, but I know better now, and all my teaching of George has come down to this: beware of muddle.
~ E. M. Forster
Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been.
~ E. M. Forster
he saw from the vastness of the ruin what ecstasy he had lost, what a communion.
~ E. M. Forster
An existence transfigured by failure.
~ E.M. Cioran
Memory's one function is to help us regret
~ E.M. Cioran