Quotes About Regret

Living alone provides the guardrails of friends and inner autonomy as insurance against losing oneself in that first delirium of infatuation and prematurely surrendering to a relationship you might later regret.

drank themselves to death. However

as their tongues met, Will knew he'd made a serious mistake. Fifteen years hadn't been enough to make him forget, and now, he had nowhere to run.

Wrong place. Wrong man. Wrong time. What a shame his kisses felt so right.

I wished I could take those words back. Gather them up like butterflies in a net.

If there was ever a time when I wished the earth would open up and swallow me whole,

And sometimes when you're very mixed-up inside, you do things you know you shouldn't do.

It was odd to think that he himself had once been on the threshold of that kind of life and that he had thrown it all away, as it were, to go out to Africa and study the ways of a so-called primitive tribe. For really, when one came to consider it, what could be more primitive than the rigid ceremonial of launching a debutante on the marriage market?

Nessun maggior dolore, Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria.

Sins become more subtle as you grow older: you commit sins of despair rather than lust. —PIERS PAUL READ

The heart hates unfinished business

Regret can't hover for long in the company of determination.

What is done can never be undone.

Her whole life would have been different. Her whole life had hung on whether or not a man walked down a garden path and slipped on ice. If he hadn't slipped, she would have married someone else, lived in different places, had different children, perhaps even been happy. It was a dreadful thought.

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.

Had I known that these legs were to carry a Lord Chancellor, I would have taken better care of them when I was a lad. Duke of Grafton

Hierosolyma est Perdita

Dear Miss Pomeroy, I am saddened by the things I do not know. There are hundreds--thousands--of books in the world and I will never be able to read all of them. I am old. Walter

I lost my second marriage because of drinking, and I loved the woman very much. But I thought I needed booze to write. I'm glad I was disabused.

One of the great dreams of man must be to find some place between the extremes of nature and civilization where it is possible to live without regret.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

She screamed. Her screaming was beautiful. But, truth be told he missed the crying.

We all do stupid things, Conscience. If they don't kill us, they weren't stupid enough, I guess.

I'm going to die. This is how I'm going to die, and this is where I'm going to die. Because I did all the stupid things you yell at stupid people for doing in stupid movies.