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Quotes About Regret

Life is wasted on the living.'
~ Douglas Adams
And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
~ Douglas Adams
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
~ Douglas Adams
Arthur woke up and instantly regretted it.
~ Douglas Adams
I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young. Why, what did she tell you? I don't know, I didn't listen.
~ Douglas Adams
that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.
~ Douglas Adams
What I lost, I think, was a whole other life." "Everybody does that. Every moment of every day. Every single decision we make, every breath we draw, opens some doors and closes many others. Most of them we don't notice. Some we do. Sounds like you noticed one.
~ Douglas Adams
Sadly, however, before she could get to a phone to tell anyone about it, a terrible, stupid catastrophe occurred, and the idea was lost for ever.
~ Douglas Adams
You know,' said Arthur, 'it's at times like this, when I'm trapped in a Vogon airlock with a man from Betelgeuse and about to die of asphyxiation in deep space, that I really wish I'd listened to what my mother told me when I was young.' 'Why, what did she tell you?' 'I don't know, I didn't listen.' 'Oh.' Ford carried on humming.
~ Douglas Adams
Oradan sekiz saat uzakta, bat?da, bir adam kumsalda oturmuÅŸ, anlat?lmaz kayb? için yas tutuyordu. Kayb?n?n yas?n? ancak küçük keder paketleri halinde tutabiliyordu, çünkü tamam?, ta??nmas? çok zor kocaman bir yük oluÅŸturuyordu.
~ Douglas Adams
Herkesin hayatta büyük f?rsat? yakalad??? bir an vard?r. EÄŸer gerçekten önem verdiÄŸiniz f?rsat? kaç?racak olursan?z, hayat?n?zdaki her ÅŸeyin ürkütücü derecede kolaylaÅŸt???n? görürsünüz.
~ Douglas Adams
I was most upset to hear of its destruction.
~ Douglas Adams
KeÅŸke gençken annemi dinleseydim diyorum.' 'Neden, ne derdi sana?' 'Bilmem, hiç dinlemedim ki.
~ Douglas Adams
And so the problem remained; lots of the people were mean, and most of them were miserable, even the ones with digital watches. Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the tress had been a bad move and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
~ Douglas Adams
Se ti chiedessi dove diavolo siamo – disse Arthur con voce fioca – potrei poi pentirmene? Ford si alzò. – Siamo in salvo – disse. – Oh, bene! – disse Arthur. – Siamo in una piccola cambusa – disse Ford – in una delle astronavi della Flotta Costruzioni Stradali Vogon. – Ah! – disse Arthur. – Questo è un modo di usare l'espressione in salvo che ancora non conoscevo.
~ Douglas Adams
If there's one thing that life's taught me," said Tricia, "it's never go back for your bag.
~ Douglas Adams
Many were increasingly of the opinion that they'd all made a big mistake in coming down from the trees in the first place. And some said that even the trees had been a bad move, and that no one should ever have left the oceans.
~ Douglas Adams
1. YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS Youth is a cliff. You leap, and repair the broken bones later. When you're older, you draw the map, retrace your steps and find the cliff's edge again to wonder: Would anyone ever jump if they knew how far down it went? I jumped, once. I'm broken in unseen places.
~ Douglas Clegg
If only... the two most miserable words in the English language. If only.
~ Douglas Clegg
I cry because the future has once again found its sparkle and has grown a million times larger. And I cry because I am ashamed of how badly I have treated the people I love–of how badly I behaved during my own personal Dark Ages–back before I had a future and someone who cared for me from above. It is like today the sky opened up and only now am I allowed to enter
~ Douglas Coupland
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
~ Douglas Coupland
Time ticks by; we grow older. Before we know it, too much time has passed and we've missed the chance to have other people hurt us. To a younger me this sounded like luck; to an older me this sounds like quite a tragedy.
~ Douglas Coupland
I'd sooner have died than admit that the most valuable thing I owned was a fairly extensive collection of German industrial music dance mix EP records stored for even further embarrassment under a box of crumbling Christmas tree ornaments in a Portland, Oregon basement. So I told him I owned nothing of any value.
~ Douglas Coupland
The best part of my life is gone, and what remains is whizzing past so quickly I feel like I'm Krazy-Glue'ed onto a mechanical bull of a time machine.
~ Douglas Coupland