Quotes About Regret

Beautiful and wealthy as she was, I felt a little sorry for her. I thought she probably wouldn't realize what she had lost until it was much too late.

Wenn wir die Chance in der Gegenwart nicht ergreifen, werden wir in Zukunft auf unsere Vergangenheit zurückblicken und bedauern, nichts daran geändert zu haben.

Ugh. I dream of bad behavior. Sometimes I dream about going out and getting slaughtered, and it's almost a disappointment when I wake up and there's no hangover.

felt oddly ashamed at how little I had really explored New York.

He feels a brief pang that something so major has happened in her life without him knowing.

I loved a man who had opened up a world to me but hadn't loved me enough to stay in it. And now I was too afraid to love a man who might love me, in case . . . In case what?

How could you live each day knowing that you were simply whiling away the days until your own death? How could this man whose skin I had felt that morning under my fingers – warm, and alive – choose to just extinguish himself? How could it be that, with everyone's consent, in six months' time that same skin would be decaying under the ground?

I realized, now I could see him in the light, that he looked really, properly ill and I felt terrible for having failed to grasp it.

So what was the hardest part?' Mr Gopnik said. 'I'm sorry?' 'Of working for William Traynor. It sounds like quite a challenge.' I hesitated. The room was suddenly very quiet. 'Letting him go.' I said. And found myself unexpectedly biting back tears.

The Grum's Ledger is a tale of regret. In real life, there was no happy ending. Alexander Grum died alone because he was afraid to seize love and risk and all the unknowns that go with it. He chose certainty- and it was his ruin.

Unfortunately, since there was only one of him, most of his riches were wasted.

Some people feel like they don't deserve love. They walk away quietly into empty spaces, trying to close the gaps of the past.

She could have ... People still wanted to know.

Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories

By the way, when you finish the bottle of Crown Royal, you can still use the pouch to hold your broken dreams.

Better to follow this case than to sit at home alone with only my thoughts, memories, and regrets. My mind was a bad neighborhood. I didn't want to wander around there alone. "If

Hennes Bengt var så snäll. Han skulle aldrig svika någon eller ljuga. Älskad av alla. Hon vänder sig om igen och stirrar på kistan där hennes son ligger. Tänker, med en sorg som plötsligt överväldigar henne helt, att hon inte kände honom alls.

Some day, years later, in our memories, we'll return back to these places, and we'll toss about and we won't be able to sleep, thinking, remembering...it will all come back and we won't be able to change anything... So I wish that then, years later, you wouldn't regret anything and you wouldn't want to change anything at all - a life lived perfectly, a perfect memory...

It clearly wasn't the best choice. I should've used two emails—one personal, one for work," she said.

But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she'd been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail herself of the only option for fixing it. Too little, too late, she'd now tried to address it.

an understanding that choices, once made, are absulote, that the realm of freedom exists only in the present and in the future, and that more harm than good is done in reimagining that some choice in the past might have been dismissed in favour of a better option. This kind of thinking will lead only to regret, to the rotting of a man from inside out.

As you get older, the hopes get smaller and the regrets get bigger. The challenge is to fight it. To stop the regrets from taking over

But here you are in the land of the living and in the house of God, and have an opportunity to obtain salvation. What would not those poor, damned, hopeless souls give for one day's such opportunity as you now enjoy!

How wrong to have been so negative, how wrong to have been so gloomy, how wrong to have run away from life, how wrong to have said no, again and again, instead of yes.