Quotes About Regret

Great powers of all persuasions care deeply about their survival, and there is always the danger in a bipolar or multipolar system that they will be attacked by another great power. In these circumstances, liberal great powers regularly dress up their hard-nosed behavior with liberal rhetoric. They talk like liberals and act like realists. Should they adopt liberal policies that are at odds with realist logic, they invariably come to regret it.

It is too late. I love him. I know it may bring me grief, and I can't do a thing about it. Mr. Congreve was right about love being a frailty of the mind.

El pasado es una confusión fugitiva de recuerdos peligrosos y dolorosos. ¿Por qué iba a querer regresar?

La gente dice «lo siento» sin parar. ¿Sabes cuántas veces he oído esa frase? Demasiadas. Y rara vez quien la pronuncia lo siente de verdad. Normalmente lo que quiere decir es «siento que me hayan pillado».

Vi lo terrible que era decir cosas y no tener la oportunidad de hacerlo

Aquí hay muchas personas que no salen nunca. Depende de lo que hiciste para que te trajeran aquí. Por supuesto, también hay muchos que no quieren salir, aunque podrían si lo pidieran. Sólo que nunca lo piden

Todavía pienso en ti. Doctor S.

It's commonly said that people who've been ill in childhood and who've had an upset education never really regret that they do. It means that you don't look at the world in the way that other people do, and if you were inclined to be a writer, that's a help.

You've got to make a stand, show a bit of class, all you've got to do is say no, but you know you're going to hate yourself in the morning.

Of all the different ways we reassure ourselves, the least comforting is this: it's already too late.

appriesse n. the feeling of loss that you never had the chance to meet a certain person before they died, which compels you to try to get to know them anyway, gathering snapshots and stories to build out a sketch of who they were, learning them like a character in a novel, which makes them feel all the more alive even though you've already skipped ahead and read the last page.

A clear look back on the Cold War's battlegrounds, along with a sense of relief that the world survived forty-five years of confrontation, evokes feelings of humility and regret.

Others were simply possessed by a feeling that they had made a catastrophic mistake. They had made an irreversible error in coming to England, and their lives would never recover - their lives would never again be their lives, but the story of this huge mistake that they had made.

Remember Edouardo? Remember what happened to him when he tried to—" "Edouardo. Edouardo was a fool." "Yes, but the way he died …" "It does not matter, how you die." "But those cuts. What could have done it?" "It does not matter," the other man insisted. He nodded to the

Nothing fixes a thing so intensely in the memory as the wish to forget it. —Michel de Montaigne John Ling. Fallen Angel (Kindle Locations 31-32). Kia Kaha Press.

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All I got out of it was a terrible feeling that I was a disgusting human being. It was so against everything I stood for, everything I believed in. The next day I felt awful. I had a terrible headache anyway, and my stomach felt like it was still doing slow spins, but worse, far worse, was the way I felt such a slut. I felt sick at myself.

There are some things that once you've lost, you never get back. Innocence is one. Love is another. I guess childhood is a third.

Have you ever loved somebody, loved her completely, but had to end the relationship for life reasons?

I love you more than songs can say, but I can't keep running after yesterday...

I want you so bad I'll go back on the things I believe. There I just said it, I'm scared you'll forget about me.

I only wish I had drunk more champagne.

My only regret is that I have not drunk more champagne in my life.

The older I get, the better I used to be.