Quotes About Regret

I think that Vietnam was what we had instead of happy childhoods.

I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.

Timor mortis conturbat me

I couldn't get myself to bend down or pick up any dirt to throw it on her casket. I couldn't help to cover her up unless it was with a blanket and only her face were still showing.

Waste your money and you're only out of money, but waste your time and you've lost a part of your life.

So I had to go to the Marriott," I finished. "You what?" He jumped to his feet as though he'd been hit with a cattle prod. "How could you do this, after everything that happened?

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

The difference in Billy wasn't what had happened to him, but what hadn't. He had a life he hadn't led, and he knew it. He just hoped nobody else noticed.

Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef.

People regretted what they had done, and what they wished they hadn't done, far more than what they had not done and perhaps should have.

The absence of definite information concerning the outcomes of actions one has not taken is probably the single most important factor that keeps regret in life within tolerable bounds," Danny wrote. "We can never be absolutely sure that we would have been happier had we chosen another profession or another spouse. . . . Thus, we are often protected from painful knowledge concerning the quality of our decisions.

They were "risk averse." But what was this thing that everyone had been calling "risk aversion?" It amounted to a fee that people paid, willingly, to avoid regret: a regret premium.

In Danny and Amos's working theory, the paradox was now resolved differently. It wasn't that (or at least not only that) people anticipated regret when making a decision in the first situation that they did not anticipate in making the second. It was that they treated 50 percent as more than 50 percent and saw the difference between 4 percent and 2 percent as far less than it was.

The book, truth be told, left the reader feeling that there was little that might have been done to prevent all those people from dying.

you have become all the things you have done and thought, and now can't undo or unthink.

But how could I bring it up? I'd actually be asking something else, and I wasn't sure I was ready to open that box. Even if it turned out to be empty, it would never be properly reclosed. Utterance is a one-way street. Questions can never be unasked.

Merle Weaver stroked the little girl's hair and thought of the two corpses in the rear of the truck.

I have brought evil to many places," he said, "but usually there has already been evil to match mine. I seek no excuses, for I know what I am and I know what I have done. I have slain malignant sorcerers and destroyed oppressors, but I have also been responsible for slaying fine men, and a woman, my cousin, whom I loved, I killed—or my sword did.

The merchants were already regretting their haste in contacting the albino. They had a feeling that not only were the legends true—but they did not do justice to the strange-eyed man they wished to employ.

We could not bring back the Golden Age. Indeed we were now paying the price of having enjoyed one.

Corum stared at the mired hand, now once again his. "It is nothing," he murmured. "I have killed my friend.

Goodbye, Queen. You have lost your champion now." I jumped. I landed in a rosebush that ripped at my skin

I have wasted a lot of time living.

Despair young and never look back," an Irishman said. And this is what I did.