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Quotes About Regret

He had spent seven years of life with Tereza, and now he realized that those years were more attractive in retrospect than they were when he was living them.
~ Milan Kundera
ÄŒervánky zániku ozaÃ…â"¢ují vÅ¡echno kouzlem nostalgie; i gilotinu.
~ Milan Kundera
Many people don't allow themselves to love...because there are a lot of things at risk a lot of future and a lot of past.
~ Paulo Coelho
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
~ Paulo Coelho
A lover would find life less broken apart after a misguided love affair if they could feel that they had been sinful rather than foolish.
~ Phyllis McGinley
Ovid lies here, the poet, skilled in love's gentle sport; By his own talents he worked his undoing. Oh, you who pass by, if ever you have loved, Think it not a burden to wish him calm repose.
~ Ovid
The only thing that lasts longer than a friend's love is the stupidity that keeps us from knowing any better.
~ R. K. Milholland
Tristan and Isolde were lucky to die when they did. They'd have been sick of all that rubbish in a year.
~ Robertson Davies
A fist in the face is all you deserve from love you've misplaced.
~ Rodney Crowell
Amazing, the poisons I used to put in my body. I used to love it.
~ Ronnie Wood
I think love could have saved Kurt Cobain.
~ Sammy Hagar
He who has fostered the sweet poison of love by fondling it, finds it too late to refuse the yoke which he has of his own accord assumed.
~ Seneca the Younger
Her only fault is that she lacks sense enough to avoid falling in love with such a fool as I!
~ Seth Grahame-Smith
That wasn't love; that was stupidity.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
Tell me, is it better to know love and have lost it or to have never known it at all? [Camulus]
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
I have a good brain on me but I've never really used it when it came to decisions about love... I definitely have been foolish.
~ Sienna Miller
When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
~ Simone de Beauvoir
- I don't want you to love me. - Too late, mi chava.
~ Simone Elkeles
I sing, and I really should've stuck with it, because it's really what I love to do. It's probably what I'm best at, too.
~ Stephanie Zimbalist
Do you believe in first love - or should I pass by again?
~ Stephen Hawking
But once in a great while he remembered that he had felt pain, a terrible ache in his heart, and he swore he would never let himself feel love for a human again.
~ Susan Cooper
I don't consider devotion to the past a form of snobbery. Just one of the more disastrous forms of unrequited love.
~ Susan Sontag
Have you ever been in love? Stay well clear. It leaves you very bitter and very twisted.
~ Tamzin Outhwaite
The worst thing an old man can be is a lover.
~ Thomas Otway