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Quotes About Regret

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.
~ Simon Kernick
I came very close to saying no, and I often wonder how things would have turned out if I had. I'm being honest when I say I truly never wanted to become a murderer.
~ Simon Kernick
Basilevitch persuaded Cruyff to let him invest his hard-earned money in a variety of ventures, the most disastrous of which was a pig farm.70 Looking back in 2015, the victim laughed at himself: "Who could imagine that Johan Cruyff had gone into pig-rearing? I ended up saying to myself, 'Ditch the pigs. Your thing is football.' "71
~ Simon Kuper
I could have been a contender, if I'd cared enough.
~ Simon R. Green
Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.
~ Simon R. Green
Every day there's something which makes me think 'I'd better ask Dad about that, I wonder what Mother would say…' and then I remember, and the day seems a little colder.
~ Simon R. Green
Never look back," I said wisely. "All you'll ever see are lost opportunities creeping up on you with bad intent.
~ Simon R. Green
Nothing is hidden, nothing is ever lost, nothing is ever forgotten. That's always been part of my problem.
~ Simon R. Green
Almost everything in this inbox is expired. Look." She handed him a yellowed scrap of paper from the bottom of the pile. Dear God: Please get me tickets to C+C Music Factory. Tania Banks, March 3, 1991
~ Simon Rich
It was not the lover she regretted,' wrote a Swiss imperial tutor, who understood their relationship. 'It was the friend.
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
Come on, Joseph,' interrupted Zhenya. 'She smells of Chanel No. 5!' Afterwards, Zhenya realized she had made a mistake:
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
I'd never have married', said Alexei to the sobbing Natalya, 'if I'd known our time was to be so short,
~ Simon Sebag Montefiore
You were unsure which pain is worse -- the shock of what happened or the ache for what never will.
~ Simon Van Booy
It's true the people we meet shape us. But the people we don't meet shape us also, often more because we have imagined them so vividly. There are people we yearn for but never seem to meet.
~ Simon Van Booy
Those left behind sometimes try and stop loving- but this is a mistake, because even if you have loved only once in your life, you're ruined.
~ Simon Van Booy
In his heart, some tiny piece of what hadn't happened would lodge.
~ Simon Van Booy
We all have different lives, Martin believes - but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.
~ Simon Van Booy
You once said you loved me. Do you still?" My sister is watching this exchange between us. She smiles warmly at me, giving me the strength to tell him the truth. "I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you. I couldn't.
~ Simone Elkeles
I never stopped loving you. Even when I tried desperately to forget you, I couldn't.
~ Simone Elkeles
Next time I want to do something nice, slap me.
~ Simone Elkeles
I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.
~ Simone Elkeles
I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava.
~ Simone Elkeles
Sometimes I wish there were do over years or fast forward days
~ Simone Elkeles
Didn't you learn anything from my mistakes?" he asks. Shit, when Alex was in the Latino Blood back in Chicago I worshiped him. "You don't want to hear my answer to that.
~ Simone Elkeles