Quotes About Regret

I am glad it cannot happen twice, the fever of first love. For it is a fever, and a burden, too, whatever the poets may say.

She didn't know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn't handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.

Then there were other reasons for living too, ones that mortals rarely thought of but that raged like fires in Rachel's mind: To correct mistakes. To avoid regret. To accept regret. To change. But none of these seemed possible either.

It had been a long time, perhaps years, since she had heard a man apologize

For awhile, staring at my paper bag of clothes, my freaked-out eyes in the mirror behind the bar, I convinced myself I would go back to Bell. He was the only man that ever made me feel in life instead of just a spectator, and if he did that by fear and pain, it was still better then when I looked numbly at some man on the couch thinking, I will leave you soon.

I do. I still love him so much. And I feel so worthless because he doesn't love me anymore.

Why do people even take photographs, anyway? They're just reminders of what once was and what you'll never get back. It's so masochistic."-Dom

Why did I have to love him so much if we're not going to end up together?

I think how breakups can bring out the worst in the best people, and part of being upset is mouthing off crap you don't mean.

Dio è la voce dell'assente, l'assente più presente di tutti sei tu, finto Dio che fingi di essere un poeta malato di civiltà: parole inusuali e ineguali usi a tuo uso e consumo per corrompere, bastonare gli umani: io vivo e questo ti dispiace, ho un corpo e questo ti rammarica.

The enemy has always had a great way of trying to keep each of us tied to past sin, weighing us down with sorrow or pain and regret. Feeling heavy under the weight of knowing you made stupid mistakes will, if you allow it, cripple you for life. We have all fallen short. There is no one on earth who has not made mistakes. But walking in the miracle of forgiveness gives God much glory. The

Never regret the vultures of friendship.

A world of "if"s, but it would make no difference. If I could go back in time... but I couldn't. The past was behind me. The best thing now would be to stop looking over my shoulder. It was time to forget the past and look to the present and future.

It is too easy to say 'what if' and paint a picture of a perfect world.

Underneath me, Sam Grest - who'd been my friend and saved my life - lay perfectly still and slipped further and further into the final sleep of an unfair and horrible death.

Sharp disaster in a fresh new coma Was it worth it when it was over

Nora: "How do you feel?" Nick: "Terrible. I must've gone to bed sober.

Sometimes I think the fear of dying is really a fear that you're not living the life you want.

Even more than he regretted her opposition, he dreaded the drawing of battle lines between science and Scripture. Personally, he saw no conflict between the two.

Cake!" said Tubby Ted, "I'd give hundred pounds for a piece of cake!" "The only hundred pounds you HAVE are around your waist!" said Prentiss.

He had never lost his temper since his childhood except once — almost — in Durthing. That burst of fury had frightened him, but it had still not taught him what a jotunn rage could be. Now he felt it in its full adult form for the first time. It was wonderful, irresistible, intoxicating. He might regret this after, for as long as he might live, but now that did not

La vida es demasiado corta como para ponerle los grilletes y la bola de un corazón rencoroso.

Prefiero irme a la tumba sintiéndome culpable por pedir más de lo que he recibido que por perderme respuestas por no haber pedido.

You know how you finish a bag of chips and you hate yourself? You know you've done nothing good for yourself. That's the same feeling, and you know it is, after some digital binge. You feel wasted and hollow and diminished.