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Quotes About Regret

I was too young, then, to know that dead lovers are the toughest rivals.
~ Gregory David Roberts
We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.
~ Gregory David Roberts
E' sempre un errore molto sciocco rimanere soli con qualcuno di cui non avresti mai dovuto innamorarti
~ Gregory David Roberts
Be to, jei tikim?s, kad mums kas nors išeis, noriu, kad nieko nelikt? nepasakyta... apie praeit?.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Mistakes are like bad loves, the more you learn from them, the more you wish they'd never happened.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Il passato si riflette perennemente in due specchi: quello luminoso delle parole pronunciate e delle azioni compiute e quello scuro, colmo di tutte le cose che non abbiamo detto o fatto.
~ Gregory David Roberts
And every day I woke with a dream or a thought of her. Every night I slept with the knife of regret in my chest.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I'd burned all the bridges that might've led me home.
~ Gregory David Roberts
We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.
~ Gregory David Roberts
And when you left, I didn't feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn't want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven—and I still
~ Gregory David Roberts
want it, and that's why I'm going to Khaled and Idriss—because I don't feel sorry for any of it, and I don't regret a thing. I'm cold inside, Lin. I like people, and I like things, but I don't love any of them—not even myself—and I don't really care about them. And, you know, the strange thing is, I don't really wish that I did care.
~ Gregory David Roberts
But I didn't know that then. I washed my hands in the cold, uncaring sea, and my conscience was as silent and remote as the mute, unreachable stars.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I was an actor once, I muttered, in another life.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I wish now with all my heart that I did. The past reflects eternally between two mirrors—the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.
~ Gregory David Roberts
The past reflects eternally between two mirrors—the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say. I
~ Gregory David Roberts
They sang of heartbreak, and all the sorrows of loss.
~ Gregory David Roberts
Nothing grieves more deeply or pathetically than one-half of a great love that wasn't meant to be.
~ Gregory David Roberts
I take responsibility only for the future, not the past. The past can't hurt you the way the future can.
~ Gregory Maguire
I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.
~ Gregory Maguire
It didn't happen, but I feel fortunate for the two chances we had and it's just a shame we didn't go to a World Series for Cub fans.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I had an opportunity with Baltimore to make it to the World Series, and that didn't happen.
~ Bobby Bonilla
You never forget the feeling of not getting to the World Series. Yes, it sticks with you.
~ Ryne Sandberg
Time and time again, I see former teammates, and we talk about it. It feels like we are all on the same page: We enjoyed the regular season, but we were disappointed in not making the World Series.
~ Ryne Sandberg
I could never understand how we could put 120,000 Japanese behind a fence in World War II. I remember being bewildered about that.
~ Phil Donahue