Quotes About Regret

in the night, seeing that all hope was gone, every single man committed suicide.

It is as if nothing had ever happened on that bloodstained shore. Had Helen been worth it?

Antony's final mistake was to let his slow baggage train

He never forgave her and never saw her again.

I found that if you spend all your time regretting the past, you forfeit the inner peace your soul needs to survive.

Doctors of Science, what is man that he Should hope to come to a good end? The best is not to have been born.

But if it be never - if I can never hold sweet converse again with her, or look upon her face, or know from her her love; why, then, this side the grave, I will live as becomes the man whom she loves...

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

She wasn't wearing her glasses and she destroyed my life. I went to the funeral because I was delighted she was dead and I wanted to see her put in the ground. I thought it would give me closure.

He had been responsible for her injuries and, subsequently, he had left his wife for her. I didn't know what to say.

I wondered now if I had behaved badly and, worse still, if I had broken something that was precious to me.

When he thought about her, he no longer wanted to live.

You wanted sex. You were cheating on your wife. And because of that, a child died.

He knew what he was doing. So I never understood how he could have been so bloody stupid. The simple fact of the matter is that there was no reason for him to die.

Alex took a sip. It wasn't Coke. It wasn't even Pepsi. He recognized the over-sweet, slightly cloying taste of supermarket cola and wished he'd asked for water.

You're a miserable bastard, Hawthorne. You always were and you still are. That business with Abbott. I shouldn't have had to take the rap for that. You screwed me over and I'm only doing this fucking job now because of you.

metrosexual for this folly? This was where he had died. I was reminded

One fucking smoke and it cost me my job, my pension, my marriage, my whole fucking life.

Ishiguro's Never Let Me Go, McEwan's Atonement.

One second behind the wheel of a car she shouldn't have been driving and she killed my child and took everything away from me. I'm a Christian. I go to church. I've tried to forgive her. But I'd be lying to you if I said that I wasn't glad when I heard someone had murdered her. It may be a sin and it may be wrong of me

He'd forgotten that one day Meadows would read it in my book. 'He was already

There is a psychic gulf that exists between myself and my grandparents because they don't really speak English, and I don't speak Chinese, and that's my own personal shame because I did not learn, ever. I only saw my paternal grandma a few times in my life, and that's really crazy.

To my mind, it seems clear that those who have no memory have the much greater chance to lead happy lives. But it is something you cannot possibly escape: your psychological make-up is such that you are inclined to look back over your shoulder.

I know that it's probably not a good idea for a comedian, especially a satirist, to support a public policy group or a politician. This is something I learned only too well years ago when I did a fundraiser for Pol Pot. A few years later I saw 'The Killing Fields,' and I've got to tell you, I just felt like a schmuck.