Quotes About Regret

Well … everything gets old after a while. I personally get a little sick of wrecking my liver at The Lion for the privilege of tricking with some guy whose lover is in L.A. for the weekend.

One may have spent one's time badly, but one did spend it; one did do something with it, however ill-advised that something may have been. To do something else means a change of habits.

Dus zo vergeet je: knielend in de schuur, likkend als een hond, je handen op de billen van een klasgenootje van je jongste dochter. En is vergeten niet genezen? Is hij nu niet eindelijk aan het genezen? Is het niet zijn beurt?

Eventually, I sickened of people, myself included, who didn't think enough of themselves to make something of themselves—people who did only what they had to and never what they could have done. I learned from them the infected loneliness that comes at the end of every misspent day. I knew I could do better. —MARK TWIGHT, "I Hurt, Therefore I Am

No need to go to the dolphins," interjected Max Brailovsky. "One of the brightest engineers in my class was fatally attracted to a blonde in Kiev. When I heard of him last, he was working in a garage. And he'd won a gold medal for designing space-stations. What a waste!

I've murdered something beautiful, Jimmy told himself. But then Rama had killed him.

He felt no regrets as the work of a lifetime was swept away. He had labored to take man to the stars, and, in the moment of success, the stars—the aloof, indifferent stars—had come to him.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

It is a pity he did not write in pencil. As you have no doubt frequently observed, the impression usually goes through -- a fact which has dissolved many a happy marriage.

Well,' said our engineer ruefully as we took our seats to return once more to London, 'it has been a pretty business for me! I have lost my thumb and I have lost a fifty-guinea fee, and what have I gained?' 'Experience,' said Holmes, laughing. 'Indirectly it may be of value, you know; you have only to put it into words to gain the reputation of being excellent company for the remainder of your existence.

Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.

A man always finds it hard to realize that he may have finally lost a woman's love, however badly he may have treated her.

On the contrary, I have been to Devonshire. In spirit? Exactly. My body has remained in this armchair and has, I regret to observe, consumed in my absence two large pots of coffee and an incredible amount of tobacco. After you left I sent down to Stamford's for the

La última vez que había cometido ese error con una mujer le había costado el alma.

Lo siento about the u-rine, mi amigo, but better safe than sorry when in the swamp. That's my motto.-Mark

Lo que uno más lamenta es lo que alguna vez no tuvo el coraje de hacer

It is a shame when we must regard a people as an enemy. It is a shame and a regret when the two peoples share so much. And it is a shame, a regret, and a tragedy when those peoples meet as individuals and find much to admire.

She had a slow, deliberate way of walking -- as if she had once been startled into precipitate action and had regretted it. A Place in the Country

Did you love Paul Ivory? Yes. I suppose it ended badly. Yes. You must have been very unhappy. I died, and Adam resurrected me.

I would have to find something else to bury here and I wished it could be Charles.

The least Charles could have done,' Constance said, considering seriously, 'was shoot himself through the head in the driveway.

Nothing is ever really wasted, she believed sensibly, even one's childhood, and then each year, one summer morning, the warm wind would come down the city street where she walked and she would be touched with the little cold thought: I have let more time go by.

I hated them anyway, and wondered why it had been worth while creating them in the first place.