Quotes About Regret

People like us, Rose, we just want to live happy quiet lives, don't we? Little house. Enough to eat... That was all he'd wanted. And Rose wished with all her heart he could have had it. But she knew now that you can't change the past. It doesn't mean you have to forget it, but you can't change it and you can't stay there.

I wish I knew then what I know now - and still had those thighs!

smoke, drink, never think—borrowed from Billie Holiday.

hope they remember that when they get older. When they count up the things I did and didn't do. I never gave the drinking a second

Behind me the past was darker than I had known it, not only irrecoverable, but unexplored, unexplorable.

But I think mebbe it was himself he blamed most. 'It 'ud be different if only she'd come back,' he'd say. 'I'd never let her out of my sight.

Like the Fat Man said, it wasn't your collars kept you awake, it was the ones that got away

MAY 12 I MYSELF STILL occasionally become irritated and angry and use harsh words towards others. Then, a few moments later when the anger has subsided, I feel embarrassed; the negative words are already spoken, and there is no way to take them back. Although the words have been uttered and the sound of the voice has ceased to exist, their impact still lives on. Hence, the only thing I can do is to go to the person and apologize, isn't that right?

Lou closed the door behind him, then banged her head against the cool metal surface. "Stupid, stupid, stupid," she chanted to herself. Oh well, she'd just have to suck it up and call her father. Dread coursed through her at the thought. He'd have to deal with the details—Edwina particularly. Lou worried her lip.

Não faz sentido desejarmos ter tido um passado que não podemos alterar. Por que é que não havemos de desejar coisas que ainda podemos ter?

Gerçek bir maceraya at?lmay? seçme ölçütü ÅŸu görüÅŸtür: Geriye dönüp bakt???n?zda bu cesareti gösterdiÄŸiniz için mi, yoksa göstermediÄŸiniz için mi memnun olacaks?n?z?

Se sintió volar en un cielo extraño, olvidando, recordando, olvidando; temeroso y arrepentido.

wonder what I would say at his funeral if someone gave me a dose of Pentothal an hour before the services." (chap. 10)

I am the father that killed his son, the fine green branch; there is no hand or shelter to help me. I am a raven that has no home; I am a boat going from wave to wave; I am a ship that has lost its rudder; I am the apple left on the tree; it is little I thought of falling from it; grief and sorrow will be with me from this time.

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

For the rest of my life I'll be thinking about that hamburger. I'll be sitting there at the counter, holding it in my hands with tears streaming down my cheeks. The waitress will be looking away because she doesn't like to see kids crying when they are eating hamburgers...

Ayn? ÅŸey benim de ba??ma gelmiÅŸti. YaÅŸl?ca bir kad?n? alabal?k nehri ile kar??t?rd???m? hat?rlad?m ve ondan özür diledim. Afedersiniz dedim. Sizin bir alabal?k nehri olduÄŸunuzu sand?m. DeÄŸilim. dedi. Amerika'da Alabal?k Av? kitab?ndan

If you find yourself regretting or resenting the past, or dwelling on it—is that the best choice as to how to be expending your energy right now? How about taking the point of view that you made the best choices you could make at the time, and turning your attention to the present?

When we're busy making "other plans," our children are busy growing up, the people we love are moving away and dying, our bodies are getting out of shape, and our dreams are slipping away. In short, we miss out on life.

Remember, when you die, there will still be unfinished business to take care of. And you know what? Someone else will do it for you! Don't waste any more precious moments of your life regretting the inevitable.

It is interesting to wonder whether taxonomists of the future may regret the way our generation messed around with genomes.

I should have been put down at birth.

I believe that everyone should have a dream and believe in it. Make it real, bring it to life. You'll never regret trying. Trying is what strengthens your heart and delivers courage. Once you believe in yourself, nothing can stop you.

she, armed with both & abandoning the joys of reason that had meant so much to her as well as me, made a suitably advantageous marriage with an ironmonger with a face like an anvil & a soul like a slag, & so I never saw her freckles fade, her auburn hair dull, never had to watch our love turn to that non-colour, white.