Quotes About Regret

She'd had sex with a boy she wasn't going to marry. She'd fallen in love with him, knowing that it would never work. Right now the pain seemed worth it because she was in his arms.

Having a worst regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune.

The affair is over, but at least things have gone somewhere, if only into oblivion. And maybe oblivion is what I wanted all along.

Hell is the moment you realize that you were ignorant of the fact, when it was true, that you were not yet ruined by desire.

With each of his new misfortunes I'm punished further, with secret guilt, for wishing all of it on him, long ago.

So many things I'll never try again. People my age who are still trying—I don't know where that energy comes from. Perhaps they're unhappy. Perhaps I'm happy, but I never thought happiness would feel like this.

I didn't do it for the money , says my friend who appeared in a pornographic film. I did it for the shame .

I fret about my lost scarf. Then I miss my flight. The scarf is no longer a problem.

Death will reveal what you otherwise would have finished. Also what you never would have finished. I found the notes for a book a woman had been working on for thirty years: sixteen pages.

It's an expression of grief for an original loss.

We married other people, had children. I still can't believe it. I might never believe it.

Forgive me for being the stupidest man on the planet?" "Careful. You're talking about the man I love.

But that was all bravado. Already - how had it come about so quickly - desire had begotten need. A few whispered words (perhaps he didn't mean them) and I was ready to follow. It was worse to think of staying behind, to grind one day upon another. Nothing to hold me here. None to regret my leaving, save Az.

I miss my fox-headed brother. Keeper

My roses still bloom, for I will not let them fade, but the weeping willows have choked out the cherry trees, and all the chrysanthemums and snapdragons have become love-lies-bleeding and anemones and hydrangeas of the deepest indigo blue. You are missed, my only violet.

I'd fallen for Ginevra Thomas's big blue eyes, and the way she brought her chin up when she was facing something she was scared of. Stupid, Milly-Fox. Very stupid.

Guilt was like the taste of ashes.

If you focus on living well in the moment, you will never have regrets about yesterday.

Hayley—I owe you an apology.' He tried to redeem himself. 'Can we start this conversation again?' 'I don't think so. It was bad enough the first time.

Sometimes in life it was important to stop thinking about what might have been, and think about what could be.

She hadn't lived in the moment because she hadn't liked the moment she was living in.

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness.

In the life of each of us, I said to myself, there is a place remote and islanded, and given to endless regret or secret happiness; we are each the uncompanioned hermit and recluse of an hour or a day; we understand our fellows of the cell to whatever age of history they may belong.