Quotes About Regret

and then we know that we have looked back through the ivory gates into that world of wonder which was ours before we were wise and unhappy.

It is true that I have sent six bullets through the head of my best friend, and yet I hope to shew by this statement that I am not his murderer.

We were too late for the elevated, and walked back downtown through Hanover Street. I remember that wall. We switched from Tremont up Beacon, and Pickman left me at the corner of Joy, where I turned off. I never spoke to him again.

Death would be a boon if only it could blot out the memories.

Infeliz es aquel a quien sus recuerdos infantiles sólo traen miedo y tristeza.

knowing that to this sunken place all the dead had come, I trembled and did not wish again to speak with the lotos-faces. Yet

Es schien mir recht bedauerlich, dass Derby sich gerade für sie interessierte, sagte aber nichts dazu, da Vernarrtheit an Widerstand bloß gedeiht.

Adesso sono ai tuoi piedi, niente più ardore nel mio cuore, le ali spezzate, la bocca che schiuma un rimpianto parole troppo confuse per avere un senso. Questo voglio dirti: Amore, sono tornato a casa

Jonah wondered what JB could possibly find to say without bringing up some touchy topic: Hey, sorry about kidnapping your niece and taking her four hundred years back in time. Sorry she got stuck there for five years. Sorry we had to count on a thirteen-year-old to rescue her. Oh, wait—you don't know about any of that, do you?

But the good sister received them most kindly, and promised to take care of them and give them all they wanted. And then they did indeed repent and feel sorry for having treated her so badly in their youthful days.

Suicide is one way of saying you're sorry.

One night, when I am old, sick, right out of semen, and don't need things to get any worse, I hear the voices again.

The past looks worse the closer you look at it.

There are more than a few people, especially among the cultural élite, who still publicly regret the fact that Germany sent Einstein packing, without realizing that it was a much greater crime to kill little Hans Cohn from around the corner, even though he was no genius.

She was overwhelmed with shame that she had so quickly acted like her old name and nature, which she had hoped was beginning to be changed already.

I could have been 23 next July I gambled on what mattered most, the dice were cast. I lost.

But the past is like a shadow, always trying to catch up.

He thought of the statue of Saint Anthony, and all the empty prayers he had said before it, wishing for things that had never been lost.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you sorrow, my pretty princess.

Some things we pack away, stick in the back of the closet, never expect to see again ? but we can't quite make ourselves discard them. Like dreams, I guess.

Myron remembered something his father once told him: People have an amazing capacity to mess up their own lives.

You want this so badly—this second chance, this chance at real redemption—that you can't see the truth." "What

I'm sorry, my dead wife mouthed.

Someone once told Hester that memories hurt, the good ones most of all. As she got older, Hester realized just how true that was.