Quotes About Regret

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up.

Silver is forty-four years old, if you can believe it, out of shape, and depressed—although he doesn't know if you call it depression when you have good reason to be; maybe then you're simply sad, or lonely, or just painfully aware, on a daily basis, of all the things you can never get back.

In my defense, I was young and there was an open bar.

To err, as they say, is human. To forgive is divine. To err by withholding your forgiveness until it's too late is to become divinely fucked up.

Forgiveness is a comfort, but it doesn't bring back what you lost

The reason wisdom is meant to be imparted is because you acquire it only after it's too late to apply to yourself.

There are some things you can never say out loud, even to yourself, sins of the mind that you can only file away in the hopes of absolution at some later date.

Everyone always wants to know how you can tell when it's true love, and the answer is this: when the pain doesn't fade and the scars don't heal, and it's too damned late.

Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.

But you lied again. Now you get to watch her leave out the window. Guess that's why they call it 'window pane.

This is a bad story." "Sorry. I'm really sorry. I shouldn't have told you." "No, you should," I say. "But—" "I don't want there to be bad stories and me not know them.

To meet so briefly, then to lose you to the desert!' Rising swiftly, she walked to the doors opening to a veranda where she stood gazing at something beyond his vision. 'I hate it. I fear it. It is like the ocean. It takes men and devours them, then flows onward as if they had never been.

He was only twenty-five.He was young enough to miss his youth just as it was slipping away. The worst kind of loss-the one that is happening as you feel it.

Now that he's gone, I feel like I'm a senior citizen who gave away her life savings over the phone. And this is the crux: I never in my life believed in someone as much as I believed in him. The shame is overwhelming.

I've learned that hurting you feels infinitely worse than being hurt myself.

Regret isn't a negative. Wishing we could do better isn't bad... And if you let go of that regret, if you forget about consequence, then what are you? Who are you?

Ha voglia di telefonare a Tanja, a Madrid, dove lei vive con il suo marchese spagnolo. Eduard ha il numero nell'agenda, ogni tanto si sentono, ma che cosa potrebbe dirle? "Sono qui sotto. Sono venuto a prenderti. Aprimi"? Questo dovrebbe dire, ma è troppo tardi, tutto il resto è un balbettio sentimentale.

I asked God for a bike, but I know God doesn't work that way. So I stole a bike and asked for forgiveness.

Wine and wenches empty mens purses.

If I had my life over again[, ] I'd have thought more about words. And thought about them earlier.

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

Così Hailè Selassiè non era un santo". Aaron Melchiades sollevò le sopracciglia, sospirò e disse: "Diciamo che se lo era non ce ne eravamo accorti". Poi aggiunse: "Sarà così anche per Mussolini. Rimpiangere i tiranni è molto più semplice che sopportarli".

lo malo de los muertos era que no aceptaban disculpas.