Quotes About Regret

Live every minute as if it's your last, so when you're my age, you have no regrets.

her on the side of the road?" He ran a hand through his wet hair, wishing he could

Roman knew better than to let himself love like that. And yet, when

Love meant laying every single thing out on the line and trusting that the other person would lay everything out, too. Without fear. And without regret. "How

Well, people always say that if you follow your heart, you'll never regret it, which I agree with. But what I learned when Ian's father and I were trying to make things work between the two of us way back when, was just how much determination it can sometimes take to stay on your heart's path. I also learned that love is worth the struggle. Always.

charm her into agreeing to have sex with him, and in the morning she'd hate him for taking advantage of her sensual weakness when her heart wasn't at all in it. But, mostly, she'd end up hating herself for being weak, and foolish, and for not guarding her heart and her body better.

it. Oh, crap. He'd forgotten all about Ellen, but

I'm bad at some things." She raised an eyebrow. "Name one thing." Making you fall in love with me the way I've always been in love with you. You only ever saw the jock while you let those artist assholes chase you. And hurt you.

Could you ever completely give up on someone that you loved? From her painful experience with Travis, Lily didn't think so..

When she thinks back to the long wasted years that she has devoted to her marriage, Frances wonders whether she was in possession of all her faculties. She was letting her life slip by and doing nothing with it. They didn't even have children.

Well I gave a lot of time to women and if I had my time again I don't think I would do it that way. I was letting my neurosis monopolise my life.

But as the wise man said, life's too short to drink bad wine. Regret is a terrible vintage.

See, the sad thing about a guy like you is, in 50 years you're gonna start doin' some thinkin' on your own and you're going to come up with the fact that there are two certainties in life: one, don't do that, and two, you dropped 150 grand on a fuckin' education you could have got for a dollar fifty in late charges at the public library!

There's almost nothing more discouraging than the sunset on a day when you've hardly gone outside.

She couldn't save them, she couldn't save anyone but herself, which made her presence here the worst sort of self-indulgence, her mission a long-running fantasy.

They say time will make all this go away. But it's time that's taken my tomorrow, and turned them into yesterday.

Most of us spend our lives as if we had another one in the bank.

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Come my Celia, let us prove,While we can, the sports of love;Time will not be ours forever,He at length our good will sever.Spend not then his gifts in vain;Suns that set may rise again,But if once we lose this light,'Tis with us perpetual night.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

fleeing into an imagined past

And I felt as if it were true: as if she were dying and not dead, or as if the train could take me back in time.

Separation from her two-year-old son would leave a permanent scar. Ursula defended that bleak decision for the rest of her life. But she never quite forgave herself.

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all? How about this: I lost without the love. I've lost things I've never even had. A whole life.