Quotes About Regret

El hombre nunca puede saber qué debe querer, porque vive sólo una vida y no tiene modo de compararla con sus vidas precedentes ni de enmendarla en sus vidas posteriores.

He suddenly felt dismayed at how little he had seen of her the last two years; he had so few opportunities to press her hands in his to stop them from trembling.

The life we have left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints against us, of taking us to court.

La vida humana acontece sólo una vez y por eso nunca podremos averiguar cuáles de nuestras decisiones fueron correctas y cuáles fueron incorrectas. En la situación dada sólo hemos podido decidir una vez y no nos ha sido dada una segunda, una tercera, una cuarta vida para comparar las distintas decisiones.

M]an has always harbored the desire to rewrite his own biography, to change the past, to wipe out tracks, both his own and other's. (p.130)

terrible are the wounds of a murdered dream

He knew very well that his memory detested him, that it did nothing but slander him; therefore he tried not to believe it and to be more lenient toward his own life. But that didn't help: he took no pleasure in looking back, and he did it as seldom as possible.

He had spent seven years of his life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them.

She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.

She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what she thought of as unforgettable could ever be forgotten. Finally, of course, she did as he asked, but without enthusiasm. The notebooks showed it: they had many empty pages, and the entries were fragmentary.

We can never know what to want, because, living only one life, we can neither compare it with our previous lives nor perfect it in our lives to come

through the magical power of a dress she could see herself imprisoned in a life she did not want and would never again be able to leave. As if long ago, at the start of her adult life, she had had a choice among several possible lives and had ended up choosing the one that took her to France. And as if those other lives, rejected and abandoned, were still lying in wait for her and were jealously watching for her from their lairs.

Sabina was now by herself. She went back to the mirror, still in her underwear. She put the bowler hat back on her head and had a long look at herself. She was amazed at the number of years she had spent pursuing one lost moment.

Indeed, all he remembers are situations that make him displeased with himself.

That's the age people marry, have their first child, choose a profession. Eventually we come to know and understand a lot of things, but it's too late, because a whole life has already been determined at a stage when we didn't know a thing.

Litost, baÅŸka dillere çevrilmesi olanaks?z Çekçe bir sözcüktür. Adamak?ll? aç?lm?? bir akordeon gibi sonsuz bir duyguyu, baÅŸka birçok duygular?n birleÅŸimi olan bir duyguyu anlat?r: hüzün, ac?ma, piÅŸmanl?k ve özlem.

Plus vaste est le temps que nous avons laissé derrière nous, plus irrésistible est la voix qui nous invite au retour

The life we've left behind us has a bad habit of stepping out of the shadows, of bringing complaints to us, of taking us to court.

Zijn hele leven was hij bang haar te kwetsen. En alleen daarom onderwierp hij zich vrijwillig aan de discipline van een afstompende monogamie. Twintig jaar later blijkt opeens dat zijn bezorgdheid totaal overbodig is en dat hij tientallen vrouwen heeft gemist vanwege een misverstand!

If we have only one life to live,we might as well not have lived at all.

in his whole life he had never acted as he wished to act. He considered himself the administrator of his own immortality, and that responsibility tied him down and turned him stiff and prim.

È questa la cosa spaventosa: il passato di cui ricordiamo è senza tempo. Impossibile rivivere un amore come rileggendo un libro o rivedendo un film

Quanto mais vasto é o tempo que deixámos para trás de nós, mais irresistivel é a voz que nos convida ao regresso.

?loveško življenje se dogodi le enkrat, zato ne bomo nikoli zanesljivo vedeli, katera naša odlo?itev je bila prava in katera napa?na, zakaj v dani situaciji smo se lahko odlo?ili le enkrat. Ni nam bilo dano nobeno drugo, tretje življenje, da bi mogli razli?ne odlo?itve primerjati med seboj.