Quotes About Regret

That's all I wanted to do. Really. Just talk to Joshua. Tell him that being with him is the only thing that's ever mattered to me. Let him know about the letters I've been writing him, maybe offer to read one or two, so he'd know exactly how I feel, and how much I still want him. How sorry I am for anything I may have done wrong.

You will suffer if you Choose to Live in the past. Those who look back, their Joy never lasts. If you want to do away with misery and regret, Then live with Acceptance, Forgive and Forget.

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to quit amphetamines

Steve McCroskey Looks like I picked the wrong week to stop sniffing glue

But I often wonder what would have happened if I had actually been drafted. I had failed military training in middle school, and I had no certificate of officer's competence. There would have been no way for me to stay afloat in the Army. On top of that, if I had ever run into that Army officer who had been attached to Keika Middle School, it would surely have been the end for me. Even thinking about it now makes me shudder.

The relative who had said "What are you doing?" when I was paralyzed at the sight of my brother's corpse had not been able to intimidate me, but I could not forgive myself for what I had said to my mother. And how terrible the results had been for my brother. What a fool I am!

And then what?" I asked. "Her father at last understood my feeling," claims Uekusa. "And what happened with the girl after that?" I queried. "Never saw her again, but we were just kids anyway." I think I understand and yet I don't.

I had been ready to reproach her for the indignities she had caused me to suffer in the past, but suddenly I was moved by this figure of an old woman I no longer recognized, and all I could do was stare vacantly down at her.

I have nothing I ever wanted, after I had everything.

So much past inside my present. —Feist

Anesthetized by youth, I missed it.

You make all these decisions in your life, and they all seem like the right decisions at the time. You think you're doing the right thing. And it's only later that you realize, no, they were exactly the wrong decisions, and instead of bringing you what you wanted, they only carried you even farther away from your dreams. And somehow you've got to live with that.

Words have a way of coming back to haunt us.

Pasoon," Reshmina said, "what if there was another way? What if—" But when she looked up, Pasoon was gone.

To apologize for what you most wanted to do, to concede that it was obnoxious, boring, 'vulgar and unsafe' --- that was the worst thing.

Nick felt a tear rise to his eye at the thought of the child's utter innocence of hangovers.

it's only a failure who would kill!

Si alguien te robara el dinero como te roban el tiempo, pondrías el grito en el cielo, lo perseguirías y entablarías una acción judicial contra él. El dinero puede reemplazarse pero el tiempo no. Tontos que somos, dejamos que nos roben este artículo tan preciado y tan único, y no hacemos nada para evitarlo.

It was not his habit to dwell on what might have been but what could never be.

needed to get shit-faced and forget everything that had happened.

Anna's breath was short, her mouth dry. She managed to say, "You make it all sound so awful." Elizabeth shook her head with regret. "I just gave you the best-case scenario.

He didn't want to think about the past, present, or future. He didn't want to feel bad, or feel anything, so he drank some more.

If you don't use your experience, your past is wasted, and you are betraying yourself.

I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.