Quotes About Regret

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.

The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes. It is equivalent to a sense of abusing the present.

But the past is the biggest country of all, and there's a reason one gives in to the desire to set stories in the past: almost everything good seems located in the past, perhaps that's an illusion, but I feel nostalgic for every era before I was born; and one is freer of modern inhibitions, perhaps because one bears no responsibility for the past, sometimes I feel simply ashamed of the time in which I live.

No such thing as a temptation. A temptation is a desire, a lust like any other - but one that we regret afterwards + wish undone (or that we know beforehand we will regret after). So it`s no excuse to say, ``I didn`t mean to do it. I was tempted + I couldn`t resist.`` All one can honestly say is, ``I did it. I`m sorry I did it.`` - Reborn

My loyalty to the past—my most dangerous trait, the one that has cost me most.

The heaviness of forgiveness descended the moment after I wrote the words.

A fresh eddy of sadness washed over Natalie, and she shuddered with emotional pain. When would the tears stop? When would the pain subside? It wasn't like a headache or illness that could be cured by swallowing a pill. No, this ache of missing and regret felt like a constant, incurable condition.

Do not fear death, but rather the unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live. —Tuck Everlasting

You can't rewind life or undo things.

Why not seize the pleasure at once? How often is happiness destroyed by preparation, foolish preparation! —Jane Austen (1798)

Why do you keep trying to make me feel better? Because it sucks for you, the things you found out today, and there's no fixing any of them. And because I like you. You like me... That's what I said. How? What? How do you like me? As a person you feel sorry for because I just found out some really bad news? As someone you've been working with this summer? As an ex-girlfriend you still have old feelings for? Close. As an ex-girlfriend I have new feelings for.

If she hadn't paid the price of her heart, perhaps this gift would never have been hers.

Maybe that was why the term "old flame" had been invented. Somebody always got burned.

No amount of liquor could make him forget the things he yearned to erase from his mind—

Questions swelled inside her, tangling with questions that would never be answered. The trouble with being angry with a dead person, she reflected, was that you could never sit down with her, talk things out, get an explanation, make amends.

If I'd known how the week was going to turn out I would have sent it back first thing Monday and asked for a refund.

My last thought before I fell asleep was: He is dead. My only friend. My only enemy.

lifeless body, lying twisted and

When he returned to the

Shameful, wouldn't you

E soprattutto sapeva che per quanto ci si perda nel presente, per quanto si creda che il passato è stato cancellato, esso ritorna. Ritorna a giudicarti. E tu giudichi lui, il passato, nel paesaggio morale della memoria.

Revenge! The stupidest motive on earth, just an attempt to change history.

It isn't that nothing is left. It is that what remains is such an old sad ghost of the thing that used to be, and he can't bear lying down with the vestiges.

Then when our sniper steps to a window In the brain, starts shooting, and we fall surprised, Of what we know not do we seek forgiveness From ourselves, for ourselves?