Quotes About Regret

Wesley Crusher will only live on in reruns. I will never get to bring him to life again, and that makes me a little sad. I'd like to try on his spacesuit and his oversized brain one last time and see how they fit now. After I posted that entry, the

I craved for the past, resented the present, and dreaded the future.

I am so stupid, so easily fooled. It's really almost funny. If I could lift a finger I would gladly kill myself.

I crouch beside her bed and stumble through the only prayer I know: now I lay me down to sleep and pray the Lord my soul to keep. It's a appropriate, I think. And still I feel worthless. I want to comfort her, to chase her fears into the snow. But sympathy is buried in me, like a stone in the belly of a goat. And the goat is the rare animal that will eat garbage. I hold her hand until she falls asleep, then steal fifty dollars from her purse.

Their recommendation is that you should not put too much weight on regret; even if you have some, it will hurt less than you now think.

Este pequeño ejemplo ilustra una gran historia: los seres humanos esperan tener reacciones emocionales más intensas (el arrepentimiento incluido) frente a un resultado producido por una acción que frente al mismo resultado producido por la inacción.

people expect to have stronger emotional reactions (including regret) to an outcome that is produced by action than to the same outcome when it is produced by inaction.

Poignancy (a close cousin of regret) is a counterfactual feeling, which

people expect to have stronger emotional reactions (including regret) to an outcome that is produced by action than to the same outcome when it is produced by inaction. This

Regret, frustration, and self-satisfaction can also be affected by framing (Kahneman & Tversky, 1982). If

He looks around, he suddenly recognizes in his colleagues what others see in him: tax officials. And he is one of them. How could it have happened that he became a tax official? On the computer he looks at pictures from his school days. Back then he wasn't a tax official yet.

Humboldt disse che anche lui voleva viaggiare. Forster annuì. È un desiderio che provano in tanti, disse. E tutti se ne pentono. Perché? Perché non si ritorna mai.

I am afraid. Not of life, or death, or nothingness, but of wasting it as if I had never been.

P.S. please if you get a chanse put some flowrs on Algernons grave in the bak yard.

you know, when my father died, I spent alot of time thinking I wasn't a great son. like, maybe I could've listened more, or spend more time together. I felt so guilty, he did everything for me, and I did nothing for him. then, one day, I realized I did the greatest think before he died. I held his hand, and said goodbye.

At night, I think about these things. I'm pleased with what I know, but now I think much more about everything I could have known, which was so much more than anything I can learn now and which now is gone forever.

It reminded Sade of some of the aristocrats, who had treated imprisonment as a bad joke, a mild annoyance that would be made right before any real damage was done. They had kept their dignity right up to the moment when the drum roll stopped and the blade fell. Then, too late, they screamed like children. As I would have done . The thought popped unwelcome into his head.

Je pense encore au cordonnier de P., mort de n'avoir pas trouvé repreneur à sa cordonnerie. "Alors ma vie ne vaut rien?" C'est ce qu'il ne cessait de répéter. Personne ne voulait racheter sa raison d'être. "Tout ça pour rien?" Il en est mort de chagrin.

What's done cannot be undone. —Macbeth (1606), act 5, scene 1

I think I liked you better when you were a contract killer.

Our mistakes always come back to haunt us. And eventually all debts come due.

On Yom Kippur, it is not enough for one to feel sorry for the foul deeds one has done. To achieve forgiveness, one must go to the injured parties and make amends.

I suppose I needed to share it with her. I suppose I needed someone to forgive me.

Remind yourself that every second spent scrolling through social media is one you will never get back.