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Quotes About Regret

You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software.
~ Ernest Cline
I was still in love with her. And I always would be. I just wanted to live long enough to correct my mistakes and redeem myself in her eyes, if I could.
~ Ernest Cline
All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…
~ Ernest Cline
Gut', sagte er und zwinkerte mir zu. 'Mach nicht denselben Fehler wie ich. Versteck dich nicht ewig hier drin.
~ Ernest Cline
Busted," I said, raising my hands in a gesture of guilt. "That's what you get
~ Ernest Cline
Yeah. I was on a roll. In less than six months, I'd managed to wreck both of my closest friendships.
~ Ernest Cline
as long as we were both still alive, there was a chance I could make things right with her.
~ Ernest Cline
This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.
~ Ernest Cline
You know you've totally screwed up your life when your whole world turns to shit and the only person you have to talk to is your system agent software!
~ Ernest Cline
I cried for madder music and for stronger wine,But when the feast is finished and the lamps expire,Then falls thy shadow, Cynara! the night is thine.
~ Ernest Dowson
I have forgot much, Cynara! gone with the wind,Flung roses, roses riotously with the throng.
~ Ernest Dowson
"Oh, Jake," Brett said, "we could have had such a damned good time together."…"Yes," I said. "Isn't it pretty to think so?"
~ Ernest Hemingway
Why should anybody be interested in some old man who was a failure?
~ Ernest Hemingway
My mind held fast to that hot morning and the moment of coolness in the cabin. I could so easily re-enact every moment. Again-why had I gone back to exchange the beautiful charts at that precise moment? How many times would I, in whatever innocence, be compelled to choose the right time?
~ Ernest K. Gann
Queer, how a man can neglect his children, as I have done ... when the thing he wants most in life is to see each one ...happy.
~ Ernest Poole
2 AM. Es la hora del Oficio Nocturno, y la iglesia en penumbra parece que está llena de demonios. Ésta es la hora de las tinieblas y de las fiestas. La hora de mis parrandas. Y regresa mi pasado. "Y mi pecado está siempre delante de mí.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Las luces del "Copacabana" rielando en el agua negra del malecón, que mana de las cloacas de Managua. Conversaciones absurdas de noches de borrachera que se repiten y se repiten como un disco rayado. Y los gritos de las ruletas, y las roconolas. "Y mi pecado está siempre delante de mí.
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Yo hubiera querido tener la vida intensa de pecado sexual que él tuvo antes de su conversión;
~ Ernesto Cardenal
Il rimorso non tormenta chi l'ha fatta franca". Oggi so che è vera.
~ Erri De Luca
I don't like it, and I'm sorry I ever had anything to do with it.
~ Erwin Schrodinger
It's like that, I guess, when the past come to collect what you owe.
~ Esi Edugyan
How easy it is, to waste a life.
~ Esi Edugyan
My beloved grandson, I thank the gods for the joy of seeing your face again before I die. I wish with all my heart that you'd come back to us sooner." Argus smiled, but made no move to approach his grandfather. "You'll have to forgive me for staying away so long, Lord Aetes. As dearly as I love you, the idea of being put to death on my return to Aea kept me away. It's a trivial thing, the fear of losing one's life, but it means a lot to me.
~ Esther M. Friesner
She had this vague look in her eyes, half-disappointed, half what's-the-difference. Like someone who realized he bought skim milk by mistake and doesn't have the energy to take it back.
~ Etgar Keret