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Quotes About Regret

After conscientiously tasting fritters every day for a month Lola had put on two pounds! Her little belt bore witness to the disaster, she found herself obliged to move on to the next notch. She burst into tears.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Telling it all after the fact...easier said than done!...much easier!
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
The biggest defeat in every department of life is to forget, especially the things that have done you in, and to die without realizing how far people can go in the way of crumminess.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelops them all. As we grow older, we no longer know whom to awaken, the living or the dead.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things that are in a man's past have stopped moving. The living people we've lost in the crypts of time sleep so soundly side by side with the dead that the same darkness envelopes them all.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
You can lose your way groping among the shadows of the past. It's frightening how many people and things there are in a man's past that have stopped moving.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself. As
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Il y a bien des façons d'être condamné à mort. Ah combien n'aurais-je pas donné à ce moment-là pour être en prison au lieu d'être ici moi crétin Pour avoir par exemple quand c'était si facile prévoyant volé quelque chose quelque part quand il en était temps encore. On ne pense à rien
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
My mother would offer a selection of his watercolors to the peddlers at lunch hour ... She did all she could to keep me alive, I just shouldn't have been born.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
La grande défaite, en tout, c'est d'oublier, et surtout ce qui vous a fait crever.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Soarele având de trecut prin prea multe lucruri, nu-i las? str?zii decât o lumin? tomnatec? însoÅ£it? de regrete ÅŸi nori.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
When, grown older, we look back on the selfishness of the people who've been mixed up with our lives, we see it undeniably for what it was, as hard as steel or platinum and a lot more durable than time itself.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Jane's dream had ripped her heart from her chest, as if the past were a lion that could eat her alive.
~ Luanne Rice
You know what's the worst thing about parents dying?" Harrison said. "It's all the questions you'll never get to ask them. Little things you thought you'd have forever to find out.
~ Luanne Rice
Kate's love helps me forgive myself for my own death. The choices I made, the people I hurt. But now I know—the best of us waste our time repenting, forgiving everyone but ourselves. And the worst don't even realize there is anything to forgive. Hungry ghosts wander the earth, trapped in the bardo, seeking redemption that had been there all along.
~ Luanne Rice
But now I know—the best of us waste our time repenting, forgiving everyone but ourselves.
~ Luanne Rice
She loves you, Mom," Caroline said, telling the truth. "I know, dear. But I wish I'd done more earlier. That I hadn't missed my chance." The words hung in the air, reminding Caroline of the failures of love. People tried so hard, but they often missed the most important connections.
~ Luanne Rice
Everyone always said forgiveness is not forgetting, that the act is as full of grace for the forgiver as the forgiven. This would not hurt her. She gazed at the old man across from her. She knew that she would never see him again, and she also knew she could never absolve him.
~ Luanne Rice
Mommy and Daddy," Quinn gasped. "Grandma will kill you when she finds out you took it," Allie said. "We weren't ready," Quinn said as if hypnotized. "We weren't ready to scatter their ashes. How could I just leave them there?
~ Luanne Rice
He didn't want to think about the people in his life, the people who could make him feel the way he did inside right now. Sad and angry, and as though he had lost something he couldn't quite name.
~ Luanne Rice
I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.
~ Lucille Ball
I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
~ Lucille Ball
I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.
~ Lucille Ball