Quotes About Regret

I suppose you know that when you are after tiger, it is a point of honour not to shoot at anything else, as life may depend on it.  I could easily have spined this monster, but I felt that I must not—so, with regret, I had to let it go.

Nothing haunts us like the things we don't say.

i hate how my past actions keep messing up my future choices Seth Sorson aka fablehaven (my son's quote)

Seth wished he had kept the zombie hand.

Brandon's greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.

I hate how my past actions keep messing up my future options," Seth muttered.

She thought of Jonah and regretted that she hadn't really forgiven him as she'd promised. Holding a grudge suddenly seemed so contrary to her own happiness, so pointless. What good was it? No good, because it kept them apart. She wished she could tell him she was finally ready to start over and make it work, to forgive Adriana, as well.

Actually, after it was all over, I could've used a cigarette myself!" Dallas

He couldn't have what he'd once had; he'd already destroyed it.

But that moment, the one that was supposed to be so special, had turned into an ache that would never heal.

It is never too late to go quietly to our lakes, rivers, oceans, even our small streams, and say to the sea gulls, the great blue herons, the bald eagles, the salmon, that we are sorry.

But... what about us? What about the past? she asks blankly. The past isn't real. it's just a dream, I say. Don't mention the past.

What? Did we end up hating each other? Did we end up the way we thought we always knew would? Did I end up wearing khakis because of that fucking ad?

I want to go back, Daniel says, quietly, with effort. Where? I ask, unsure. There's a long pause that kind of freaks me out and Daniel finishes his drink and fingers the sunglasses he's still wearing and says, I don't know. Just back.

And as the elevator descends, passing the second floor, and the first floor, going even farther down, I realize that the money doesn't matter. That all that does is that I want to see the worst.

I concluded with an aching finality that the could-happen possibilities were gone, and that doing whatever you wanted was over. The future didn't exist anymore. Everything was in the past and would stay there.

Oh come on, don't look that way. You have nothing to be ashamed of." "I'm not," she says, trying to act casual. "I just want to know if you're disappointed in me for admitting this." How could she ever understand that there isn't any way I could be disappointed since I no longer find anything worth looking forward to? "You don't know much about me, do you?" I ask teasingly.

I guess. I never looked back, so I don't

Life's about making choices, Dylan. This was my choice. I don't have a single regret.

Brilliant, Piter! I'm glad I didn't execute you all those times when you were so annoying.' 'So am I,' de Vries said.

A man never gets over losing his son, or his honor.

Err, sorry Father Abbot. I tripped y'see. Trod on my Abbot, Father Habit. Oh dear, I mean....

Some memories are presents that I'm unable to unwrap over and over.

I should never have loved him . . I should never love anyone because it ends up being worse than being alone.