Quotes About Regret

nostalgic people yearn for the past for a good reason---because they missed it, they weren't fully there when they should have been, when it was the present.

I should like to toss Eustace on a fire! What a pity such actions are against the law. All I can say is that whoever made that particular law must never have met Eustace.

If I were someone who could ever be pushed over the edge into performing an act of violence, that moment would surely have come approximately ten minutes ago. Instead, and to my great regret, I seem to be a person who can balance quietly on the edge he is pushed towards for as long as anybody feels inclined to yell at him.

How sorry he was if anything he'd done had created the impression that he might be a killer.

I left my scarf behind. You sent it on. I meant to buy and send a Thank You card But I forgot, and soon the year was gone And the year after that. My life was hard

Jacinda, Sorry, but I had to leave town for a family thing. Try not to knock any other teachers unconscious while I'm gone. See you soon (but not soon enough), Will

I stare into the distance, where Tate´s Jeep turns off the road and fades from sight. All of a sudden, my chest feels so tight it hurts-I imagine this is the sensation someone gets when they're underwater for too long and out of breath.

Bu tuhaf bir histi; kendinizi suçlu hissediyor olman?z, yaÅŸananlardan piÅŸman olaca??n?z anlam?na gelmiyordu.

The thing with giving up is you never know. You never know whether you could have done the job. And I'm sick of not knowing about my life.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

But whoever gives birth to useless children, what would you say of him except that he has bred sorrows for himself, and furnishes laughter for his enemies.

Ignorant men don't know what good they hold in their hands until they've flung it away.

Men of ill judgment ignore the good that lies within their hands, till they have lost it.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

Alas, how terrible is wisdom when it brings no profit to the man that's wise! This I knew well, but had forgotten it, else I would not have come here.

The most painful state of living is remembering the future.

To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity.

Do not waste the moment of your life which comes together with death because you will bitterly regret the alienation of your own self.

Sometimes laying in my bed, I would think that I should have died because I deserved to.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled

Later, you will regret and repent - you fool! Why are you engrossed in evil-mindedness and skepticism?

Regretting the past is the first sign of ignorance. Anxiety about the future is the second sign of ignorance. And being miserable is the sign of total ignorance. If you are in regret mode, then you are on the first step and that is 'Vishada Yoga'.

Past should be seen as destiny. Future should be seen as free will. This is wisdom. Wise people do like that. Otherwise what you think; you think the past was free will so you regret the past and future you think is destiny and you do nothing about it. You simply sit. We must reverse this tendency.