Quotes About Regret

Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.

I'll always wonder what could have been with Steven Warner, but he never showed any interest outside of friendship so I never pushed it.

The worst memories stick with us, while the nice ones always seem to slip through our fingers.

Are you the same? Is it only afterward that you think of what you should have said, the killer response,the put-down that would make them stay put down?

Shame-shame.

After she had gone he sat on alone, and the lie was still bitter to his spirit as he sat there, and he covered his face for the shame that was in him - but because of the love that was in him he wept.

Jake, anyway, and somehow that seemed far, far worse. The couldn't

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter. Finally he nodded. "One would be a start, I suppose, though I probably could use about a half dozen free passes." "Instead, we have to do our best to live with the consequences of our choices.

Wouldn't it be wonderful if we were all given one do-over in life?" she murmured. "One free pass to go back and change one action, one decision, one thoughtless word?" He gave her a searching look, as if trying to figure out what moment she would alter.

I regret,' said he, 'that I have no cup; but, as you see, I can practise phlebotomy with a bottle.

Oh God, I'm old and I've never been young.

It's like grains of sand crumbling in warning at the beginning of a landslide to realise I have not missed him.

to therapists who made you write letters telling your parents you forgave them even though they'd wasted the most potentially wondrous years of their lives running after you like a pair of underpaid waiters at that same hotel buffet you didn't even know

Dheedo says: 'Moments that sail past do not return; fortunes lost will not come back; a word uttered cannot be recalled; the released arrow does not revert to the bow; the escaped soul does not re-enter a dead body.

What and how much had I lost by trying to do only what was expected of me instead of what I myself had wished to do?

I, too late,Under her solemn fillet saw the scorn.

Your audience change according to your performance, while your performance varies according to your mood! So regret not, go with the flow.

The ways we miss our lives are life.

Every man dies, not every man really lives

I am 25 today—it is terrible to think how little time remains!

I admit I did say so and I admit that it was a very stupid thing to have said. I said a lot of stupid things when I was in the Conservative Party, and I left them because I did not want to go on saying stupid things.

To grow old is to grow remorseful.

And then there is the most dangerous risk of all - the risk of spending your life not doing what you want on the bet you can buy yourself the freedom to do it later.