Quotes About Regret

Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.

this has been a birthday best forgotten." "Most birthdays are, milord," his man said agreeably

It is just a pity, he added, that some things can never be entirely forgotten just by trying. But we have all learned that lesson.

You are my flesh and blood and I have always doted on you, but right now I would have to say you deserve a haughty, ruined chit for your own and she deserves you.

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. He

De todos los fantasmas, los de nuestros antiguos amores son los más dolorosos.

I owe you both my thanks and an apology. It was an unjustifiable experiment even for one's self, and doubly so for a friend. I am really very sorry.

Of all ruins, that of a fine man is the saddest.

What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realized I'd never really tasted to things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been. What life would I have? I would be like the dancer who had practiced since childhood for a performance she would never give.

If he couldn't forgive you for what you'd done, it was clear to me he was never truly your destiny.

Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

We can't waste our time thinking about such things," she said. "Nothing is bleaker than the future, except perhaps the past.

Happily I didn't see her after she'd died, except for her legs, which were visible from the doorway and looked like slender tree limbs wrapped in wrinkled silk.

Young girls hope all sorts of foolish things, Sayuri. Hopes are like hair ornaments. Girls want to wear too many of them. When they become old women they look silly wearing even one.

Nada es más triste que el futuro, salvo, quizás, el pasado.

Sentía que había traicionado a un hombre que había sido tan bueno conmigo, un hombre en el que había llegado a ver un amigo.

What if I came to the end of my life and realized that I'd spent every day watching for a man who would never come to me? What an unbearable sorrow it would be, to realize I'd never really tasted the things I'd eaten, or seen the places I'd been

Every decision is like a murder, and our march forward is over the stillborn bodies of all our possible selves that will never be.

In the ring this had always brought him considerable applause, but he had learned to his regret that in the class struggle the double Nelson was not done.

You can quicker get back a million dollars that was stolen than a word that you gave away.

A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse.

I get here, and I don't know what to do with myself. I've always made a point of not wasting my life, and every time I come back here I know that all I've done is to waste my life

Looking at the letter in his hand) Then what is this if it isn't telling me? Sure, [Larry] was my son. But I think to him [the pilots killed] were all my sons. And I guess they were, I guess they were

Charley: He won't starve. None a them starve. Forget about him. Willy: Then what have I got to remember?