Quotes About Regret

He considered the hard times in his life. All the things he had been afraid of. All those years wasted, he told himself, because I was terrified of being different. That's why all us fifty-four-year-olds end up looking so much alike. All of us are terrified of being different.

Dylan's Blood on The Tracks.

The funny thing about saying something in anger is that once it has been said, it cannot be unsaid. The second it's floating in the ether, it's there forever. Hanging there, like a sword.

The dead don't come back. Not to this world. This world is too cruel for anyone to want to come back.

I liken my marriage in my twenties to the ill-chosen shot by a basketball player, done without any thought from an impossible angle and motivated by a mix of pure adrenaline and ego, which his coach watches with complete despair as he involuntarily shouts "nooooo.

When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.

It shocks me how I wish for...what is lost and cannot come back.

Things had changed in a way that no one could have ever expected - and I ached with regret.

You bastard! You have brought up the sorrow my family has tried so hard to put behind us!" Cyrus shouted angrily, ignoring the constables hastening toward him.

I'm so sorry," he panted. "I shouldn't have done such things to a girl like you before marriage. But I want every bit of you so much. And now we know that we are meant for each other. Our marriage will be blessed with this—passion.

I'm not the one who's so far away When I feel the snake bite enter my veins. Never did I wanna be here again, And I don't remember why I came.

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

To feel wrecked, you didn't need accumulated badness. One mess-up was all it took.

For those who had known the couple in the time of their rapture, her absence from his funeral at the Church of the Madeleine on October 30, 1849, felt more like a haunting presence.

yes, I have slept with the wrong men, and never with the wrong dog.

The loss of her freedom, of these years of her twenties, ended up being nothing next to the loss of her confidence in the choices she'd made.

She lets it slip because she does. Don't ask her Why now? Ask her Why not every moment up to now?

How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently

I will do it tomorrow. How often we all do so and what a pity it is that when morning comes and tomorrow is today we so frequently wake up feeling quite differently. Careless or impatient and not a bit inclined to do the fine things we planned to do overnight.

The parting at Burnet was not a happy one.

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.

I still regret that I never played soccer in high school. I chose basketball over soccer.

I'll definitely play cricket again, but only socially. I've still got a lot of friends at my local team, Green Mount, and I do miss playing, but I don't regret anything.

Thinking so hard on her soft eyes and memories of the signs that it's over. It's over.