Quotes About Regret

Why is it that people are precious to you only after they're a memory?

The funny thing is," she said, "that I still love him. I don't want to—he butchered my mother and my little brother, then blew his own head off—but I still find that, when I think about him, I still feel some love. Pathetic, isn't it?

I am amazed by how many individuals mess up every new day with yesterday.

No one ever comes back from Vietnam. Not really.

past the back of a bunch of stores and an old bar that looked like no one who went in there went in happy.

I do not know what she was thinking, but I was remembering the years we have lived together, yet never together, and what a waste they have been--of each other, and of love, which is the most unpardonable waste there is. Love and time, those are the only two things in all the world and all of life that cannot be bought, but only spent.

She reached into an alabaster box and pulled out a violet cigarette that also exactly matched her eyes. Some people just don't know when to quit. She lit her colored coffin nail, set it into an ashtray, and promptly forgot about it. It smoldered into eternity silently begging for one more touch from her gorgeous lips.

But those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas all ran away and hid from one little Did." —Shel Silverstein

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it." —George Halas

con un propósito, con una prioridad y con productividad, sabiendo que puedes y debes evitar el arrepentimiento, poniendo LO ÚNICO en lo más alto de tus pensamientos y en lo más alto de tu calendario

Half-filled dreams and unfulfilled hopes: this was the number-one regret expressed by the dying.

Be prepared mind, body, and spirit to do battle with everything you have, so when the contest is over you can leave the game behind with no regrets.

I want to sit with 80- and 90-year-old people more than anyone. They have played this game before. Not one of them has told me, 'I wish I had more money.'

I would live forever if I could, but not like this.

To Jaden, Kenneth, Stanley, Pedro, Tyler, Edwin, Samuel, Taishan, Gerry and Justin. For who you were and who you might have been.

I did something that should not have been done and, by direct consequence of that decision, I sit here now and my world is destroyed, my oaths broken with my legacy one of misery and treachery.

History is a succession of things that ought never to have happened, and the writing act is a kind of revenge against this.

I buried a nickel under the porch when I was 8, she said, but one day my grandma died & they sold the house & I never got to go back for it. A nickel used to mean something, I said. She nodded. It still does, she said & then she started to cry.

These are the multiple shadows because there were a lot of things she walked away from without a word of explanation when she was younger & she still thinks about them more than she needs to.

After being dry for a couple a weeks, three cocktails went down quicker than a boner in a busted rubber.

If you can miss getting up in the morning and running into a wall, I miss playing football. I'll never be a frustrated athlete.

Ojalá hubiera otra forma de hacer esto - confesó Han. - Dowwpp - respondió el Wookiee.

The drunk Gen Xers danced fast, as if they were still young, but she knew they'd wake up, roll out of bed, and groan at the ache in their knees.

I told him I was sorry that the woman was gone, that it was brave of him to want to protect her, but there was nothing he could do anymore.