Quotes About Regret

Therefore I cannot but see and feel that time is passing, and I with it, and yet I would not like to go without performing some great action to serve as a monument to my name. What is lost today will not be found tomorrow and I have done nothing so far to cover myself with glory.

Why is it that the right people never wind up together? Why are people so afraid to leave a relationship, even if they know it's a bad one?

You will never regret speaking up and being wrong. But you will if you don't and you're dead right.

He clutched at my fingers--a spasm, perhaps, for the touch relaxed almost instantly. 'Jane.' 'My lord.' He smiled faintly, a curving of the lips; but the face was so haggard, and beaded with sweat. 'You cry, dear? Waste. Should've married you years ago.

She had no doubt the man would kill her. Stupid things went skating through her mind--she'd never told her mother how much she loved her chocolate cupcakes... or Felicia what a kind friend she'd been... or Keith that it was cool and mature that he owned a house, even if it was in Brooklyn.

So that's that, Duncan is not the father of your child." She sighed. "Pity though, I bet the two of you would have decent-looking kids. Not gorgeous, mind you, but really decent-looking. And sturdy." Aww.

Was there anything worse than watching someone you love make a huge mistake?

up to), she'd simply made a spectacle of herself. And the kicker was, she couldn't explain what had made her do what

If you run out on Nellie, what will you say when you meet God?" George swore, laughed, shook his head. "I'll say 'Just send me on to hell. That's where all my friends are, anyway.

I got on the elevator without giving him the chance to kiss me. We stood across from each other, two sad people in a situation that couldn't be fixed. I waited for the door to slide shut between us.

I can't believe you're bleeding this much! What, do you have like an ocean of blood in you or something? That was completely cruel to make me think I could shoot you and not hurt you! I have issues with hurting living creatures. You could have warned me!" She glared at him. "I don't like you." "You don't—" Blaine finally comprehended that she was wrecked over the fact she'd shot him. That

People say you don't know what you've got till it's gone, but the truth is you just never thought you'd ever lose it.

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

You want to cry aloud for your mistakes. But to tell the truth the world doesn't need any more of that sound.

The truth is, everything that's happened was supposed to happen. That doesn't mean I don't look back and think, God, I wish I hadn't had to go through some of those things.

Hell itself is truth known too late

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Every song has a piece of you in it, because just general regret, love. You have to basically zero in on the truth of those particular emotions.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

A beautifully written tale that lives somewhere between landscape and memory, where regret becomes a prison, and a story told often enough becomes truth.

The truth remains. I was, and am, disgusted with myself.

I have tried," I said, "but he does not believe me. It is too late for that now" (it is always too late for truth, I thought).

The truth was, history repeated itself on a daily basis; mistakes were made over and over. People were haunted by what they had done, and by what they hadn't had time to do.

The truth is I don't regret it. It was the right decision [not run for president] for my family, and the right decision for me.