Quotes About Regret

From The Jilting of Granny Weatherall ] You waste life when you waste good food.

She wished to sit down quietly and wait for her death, but not until she had cut the throats of her man and that girl who were laughing and kissing under the cornstalks.

In November 1917, however, instead of myth, there was only regret over the birth of a girl. But not devastation. Kamala

fuck off! this isn't my fault....it wasn't my idea to kick it!" same conversation 1 minuet later

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

the Rokuj? lady was much more than a passing affair, and something in the way you wrote it made me certain: you must have loved someone else, someone young, not Akio's father. And that person died, didn't he? At the front." "Yes." Mieko said the one word, and nothing more.

There are some things in this world you can never get back... There's no reclaiming that piece of the past. Don't you think it'd be better to abandon it completely and consider instead what you did wrong and learn from it?

You know, Youko. When you don't know which choice is the best, then you should choose the path you ought to take, rather than the one you wish for. You're going to regret the path not taken. But regrets being more or less equal, better the one where the regret is even a bit less." - Rakushun.

There are... things which a man is afraid to tell even to himself, and every decent man has a number of such things stored away in his mind.

Andare a caccia di ricordi non è mai un bell'affare. Qualunque cosa trovi sulla tua strada rimane in ogni caso un nulla di fatto. Quelli belli non li puoi più catturare e quelli brutti non li puoi uccidere. E ogni respiro sembrava fatto d'aria malsana, quella che si ferma in gola e lascia un cattivo sapore in bocca.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

In auction situations, the final bidder overpays so often that economists call the accompanying feeling of regret the "winner's curse.

l'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?...

And then a lady in a window high, Fair-haired, dark-eyed, and dressed in ancient style... Whom, in another life, perhaps I've seen, And whom I now remember with a sigh.

He sat on his shelf as still as a stone, and half his mind was somewhere else. There, fires broke out; there were cries of terror both human and feline; he was responsible and not responsible. It was long ago but not so far away.

all my past spread out laid bare I trample on it what else to do

I, Electra, fingering my garments and my face, for in hours I was changed. Now I am merely one who has killed.

Il rimpianto è il vano pascolo d'uno spirito disoccupato. Bisogna soprattutto evitare il rimpianto occupando sempre lo spirito con nuove sensazioni e nuove immaginazioni.

Should have. Would have. Could have. Didn't.

I shouldn't have done that," I said. That was when I kissed him again. May God forgive me for this and all these things I've done.

Maybe if I'd been braver in that moment, I would have cried.

he realized that he had made a grave miscalculation when he had ended the friendship with Sadie. His mistake had been in thinking the world would be filled with Sadie Greens, people like her. It was not.

Since i couldn't remember the "real" first time i'd lost my virginity, this would have become my de facto first time. I wanted a better story then: I did it with this boy who i wasn't very into and who had mysterious Gaterade breath; in his room decorated with sports equipment; at least he was nice enough to provide condoms and get his ancient, horny dog to leave us along.