Quotes About Regret

Better to have loved and lost, than to have never loved at all.

Although we can't fully retract our words once they're out there, we can apologize.

I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.

Oh, to be old again," said the young corpse.

He thought of the next Saturday. [...] He thought of the picnic by the dipping pool on the river, where oaks and willows dappled the sun on water the color of tea; and girls in light summer dresses would sit in pools of pale cotton. And he knew he would not go.

She said she was sorry, which was kind but unnecessary, I said I was sorry too. We were both sorry and understanding

Ludwik Szatera was a passionate lover of nostalgia. He could never come to terms with the eternal passage of men, objects and events. Each moment inexorably turning into the past was to him precious, invaluable, and he witnessed its passing with a sense of inexpressible regret.

But since those days in Vienna I had been aware that Austria was lost, not yet suspecting, to be sure, how much I had lost thereby.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

That is to say, I went in search of every moment I had spent with him. ..." "...just to relive the past once more, only once more. .....,retracing our path, so that every word and gesture would revive in my mind again.

Tausend Jahre kaufen nicht zurück, was eine einzige Sekunde versäumt.

Hiçbirimize tek bir nefeslik bir yaÅŸam dahi ikinci bir kez verilmeyecek.

Ä°lkbahardaki bir nehir gibi h?zl? ak?p gidiyor ömrümüz, ak?p giden ise geri gelmiyor.

Zaman?n çoktan sildiÄŸi bir hata için cezaland?r?labilir miydi insan?

Ölmem sana ac? verecek olsayd? eÄŸer, o zaman ölmezdim.

?nsan?n mutlulukla ya?am?? oldu?u karaya limandan ayr?lan bir gemiden bir kez daha bakmas? gibi arkas?ndan bakt?m.

L'Europe s'aperçoit en frémissant que, par sa sombre indifférence, une puissance destructrice a fait irruption chez elle, puissance qui paralysera ses forces pendant des siècles. Mais dans l'Histoire comme dans la vie des hommes le regret ne répare pas la perte d'un instant, et mille années ne rachètent pas une heure de négligence.

Kekesfalva had told me: that Condor had a blind wife whom he had been unable to cure, and had married by way of penance, and that this blind woman, instead of being grateful to him, was a continual plague to him. But he put his hand on my arm with a warm, almost affectionate gesture.

La niñez, pálida, perdida, anodina. Padre y madre, el hermano, la esposa. Tres migajas de amistad, dos copas de placer, un sueño de gloria, un zurrón de agravios. Fogosas, embisten por sus venas las imágenes de la juventud perdida.

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she never really loved, when the glowing sunset colors of her beauty offer her one last, urgent choice between maternal and feminine love. At such a moment a life that seemed to have chosen its course long ago is questioned once again, for the last time the magic compass needle of the will hovers between final resignation and the hope of erotic experience.

Ho perduto la donna che ho amato senza lottare, senza credere in me e in lei. Poco importa quello che ho imparato dopo, non conta quanto io sia cambiato, allora commisi questo delitto, il delitto di lasciarla sola.

Ah but' 'there'll be no butter in hell!