Quotes About Regret

It makes one feel such a fool," said Mrs. Oliver, ruefully, "not to be able to be definite.

I should have kept him to the end," said Mrs. Oliver. "In a book, I mean," she added apologetically. "Real life's a bit different," said Battle.

It's maddening really," said Patricia. "Probably the only chance in my life that I shall ever have of being right on the spot when a murder was done—it is a murder, isn't it? The papers were very cautious and vague, but I said to Gerry on the telephone that it must be murder. Think of it, a murder done right close by me and I wasn't even looking!" The regret in her voice was unmistakable.

It seems sometimes, sir, as though the past isn't the past

It was all a long time ago…

manner. He was very apologetic. So early

O que posso fazer para afastar a lembrança dos meus olhos?

I think now, looking back, that I was perhaps a shade intolerant.

Saber que uno ha hecho un mal irreversible a otro ser humano es la carga más pesada que puede tener nadie que soportar».

Günah?n seni daima izler bunu unutma.

I am sixty-nine,' he said. 'Everything I know of life I know at second hand. Sometimes that is very bitter to me. And yet, because of it, I know a good deal.

Os tolos compram coisas que morrem nas primeiras geadas e aí desejam ter ficado com os girassóis e os bem-me-queres!

Old sins have long shadows," quoted Poirot. "As we advance through life, we learn the truth of that saying.

And when anything beautiful's dead, it's a loss to the world.

I hoped that she was feeling a little remorseful for all the unkind things she had said.

One little soldier boy left all alone; He went and hanged himself And then there were None. Frank Green, 1869

Even God cannot change the past.

Dogs' lives are too short. Their only fault, really.

It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

I didn't see her die, but I did hear her one and only scream

Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things. This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well. For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.

Every student must choose one of two pains: The pain of self-discipline or the pain of regret of negleted opportunities.

At the end of things we turn into historians. Sometimes happy, sometimes nostalgic, sometimes regretful or bitter, sometimes to reassure ourselves that we have amounted to something, however small. And sometimes, as I am doing now, to try with the wisdom of hindsight to make sense of ourselves.

Nightly you retrace your steps again to return to the scene of the crime. It's uncanny how you hover in the air of the wreckage that you left behind.