Quotes About Regret

The high shelf Where you stacked the bad thing, hoping for calm, Broke. It rolled down. It follows you to the end.

I mean, after everything we knew about them… we should never have ended the war the first time.

A lot of guys make mistakes, I guess, but every one we make, a whole stack of chips goes with it. We make a mistake, and some guy don't walk away - forevermore, he don't walk away

Ferdinand: Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle; she died young.Bosola: I think not so; her infelicitySeemed to have years too many.

Cover her face. Mine eyes dazzle. She died young - Duchess. Act 4, Sc.2.

Cover her face; mine eyes dazzle. She died young.

He felt both shame and pride, and over it all a bitter disappointment, in himself and in the time and circumstance that made him possible.

He felt his inadequacy to the goal he had so recklessly chosen and felt the attraction of the world he had abandoned.

Mata algo en la gente, algo que no puede recobrarse

A war doesn't merely kill off a few thousand or a few hundred thousand young men. It kills off something in a people that can never be brought back. And if a people goes through enough wars, pretty soon all that's left is the brute, the creature that we—you and I and others like us—have brought up from the slime.' He paused for a long moment; then he smiled slightly. 'The scholar should not be asked to destroy what he has signed his life to build.

He felt vaguely that he would be leaving something behind, something that might have been precious to him, had he been able to know what it was.

When one has had power in his grasp, and has failed to hold it, and has remained alive—what does one become?

We all have our youthful follies, embarassing to recall -- but people somehow find it hard to dismiss as a youthful folly anything that has happened to be a financial success.

As Proust put it, the only paradises are those we have lost.

No, they would never get over that night because they had said things that altered how they saw each other.

Poor Lou, I did nothing for her,' Kate suddenly thought. It is a most severe pain—the realisation that one has failed one's child, done less than one might have done; but she continued to smile bravely.

La catastrofe de la vejez residía en no atreverse a ir a cualquier parte, en resignarse a perder la libertad

I really would like to catapult myself back there in time and kick my own teeth in.)

I wish you could go through life without ever caring about anything, without ever getting attached to people and dreams and inaccessible places. It just makes you sad when you can never go back.

But mainly, so very, very stupid. I desperately want to grow old.

Wie konnte sie sich so irren? Sie mag ihn noch immer, weil sie einfach nicht versteht. Wann war die falsche Abzweigung? Manche Freundschaften zerbrechen aus heiterem Himmel. Heiter? Sie zerbrechen. Nichts daran ist heiter.

If she didn't go, she'd wonder

Well, he would never understand. His life had been everything he wanted, whereas she had gotten on the wrong train, all those years ago.

The past is so far away, but it flickers, then cleaves the night. The bones of the past splinter between our teeth. This is our life, love. Why did I think it would be anything less than too much of everything?