Quotes About Regret

I'm bad. I married a bad man, too. And I know that bad people deserve what they get, but oh, how we hate to be alone.

He was a good boyfriend to her as, in some universe elsewhere, he might have been to me.

The profundity of this struck Sadie in this moment—yes, what greater enemy does one have than oneself? And wasn't she to blame for all of this more than Dov? He had said it would be trouble if she came to his apartment, and still she had gone. If someone tells you there will be trouble, believe them.

Though he can't remember how he got there or having taken off his clothes, A.J. wakes in bed wearing only his underwear. He remembers that Harvey Rhodes is dead; he remembers being an asshole to the comely Knightley Press rep; he remembers throwing the vindaloo across the room; he remembers the first glass of wine and the toast to Tamerlane. After that, oblivion. From his point of view, the evening had been a triumph.

past, nearly sideswiping them. "But if you'd been brave and come to me, I would have adopted her, Daniel. I would have forgiven you and I would have taken her in. I waited for you to say something, but you never did. I waited for days, then weeks, then years." "Ismay, you can believe what you want, but Marian Wallace

I was crying a little for the boy I had wanted him to be and the boy he hadn't turned out to be.

We are all living, at most, half of a life, she thought. There was the life you lived, which consisted of the choices you made. And then, there was the other life, the one that was the things you hadn't chosen.

If you let true love escape you, all for the sake of your worldly fame, one day you will wake up and realize you are no better than I - a blind, bloody fool.

The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone. —GEORGE ELIOT, Scenes of Clerical Life

Simon Glass was easy to hate. I never knew exactly why, there was just too much to pick from. I guess, really, we each hated him for a different reason, but we didn't realize it until the day we killed him.

There are things we can't undo, but perhaps there is a kind of constructive remorse that could transform regrettable acts into something of service to life.

Quieres saber por qué me sentí mal en realidad? En Nueva York el aborto no es ningún tabú, forma parte de la cultura, y aun así la ley del aborto no se aprobó hasta que fue demasiado tarde para cientos de chicas que los necesitaban al mismo tiempo que yo. ¿No podían haberla aprobado con carácter retroactivo y habernos enviado una disculpa escrita?

Dear Miss Tremor. You are smart and kind and pretty. I think you have really excellent stuff under your clothes and I would like to see it, please. Let's go on a date and get married and you can be my rodent queen in my castle in the sewer. Love always and forever, --Mouse. P.S. I am sorry my rats ate some of your candy.

And let her not look to find my love, as before; my love, which by her fault has dropped like a flower on the meadow's edge, when it has been touched by the plow passing by.

Poor Catullus, you should cease your folly.

The path ahead is wide open and you feel a sense of emptiness; in the moment, you realize your heart is empty and the one who can make it overflow with joy, never will.

He was annoyed at his anger. He had failed to contain himself.

still I think about him more than I don't. I'm I'm careful, I think about him all the time. What would it take to return to the ease of feeling safe and appreciated? The way I did with him. It would take, I decide, being 20. Better to think about my dead sister than a man whose kiss I will remember forever. Even if he vanishes as completely as Rebecca has.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize that I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

My parents are going to kill me!" "That seems rather harsh...

But what is worse, smelling the roast and not feasting, or not smelling the roast at all?

And I wonder: Have I squandered my dogness? Have I forsaken my nature for my desires? Have I made a mistake by anticipating my future and shunning my present?

You know what your potential was when you were young: you could have done anything! But instead of doing anything, you did nothing.