Quotes About Regret

Little black and tan older dog? Verdie asked. Do you know who he belongs to? Belonged to, not belongs. Old man Rawling died about two weeks ago. His family intended to have Pete and Joe put to sleep the day after the funeral, but they both vanished.... Dickie bought that crazy bird for his wife, Mary, about six years ago. He'd promised her that someday he'd take her to a tropical island and then she got cancer and he couldn't take her so he bought her the bird.

Would you want to be sixteen again?" Lola asked.

He's horrible, Mama. Why didn't you give him away at birth?

Yesterday is gone and nothing but a memory. Maybe a bad one, but there's no way to call it back or change it. Tomorrow is just the whisper of a hope. Today is all you got, lady.

Don't be afraid of dying. Be afraid that you don't make the most of every single day you are alive. I read about an old lady who said she wanted to slide into heaven with nothing left.

You know your all fucks! why am i so dichable? now how am i supposed to kill you with out upseting that poor nice women!? God damnit alice i liked you why did you have to be such a bitch

Then when he had washed the ashtray and the glass he brought out a pistol from his pocket and put a bullet in his chest.

I doesn't see my Father much - maybe once a week - but I done a lot of thinking about him. I feels sorrier for him than anybody I knows. I expect he done read more books than any white man in this town. He done read more books and he done worried about more things. He full of books and worrying. He done lost God and turned his back to religion. All his troubles came down just to that.

Now that it was over there was only her heart like a rabbit and this terrible hurt.

It was as though his son cheated him by depriving him of his beloved presence, the sweet and treacherous thief had plundered his heart. If Johnny had died in any other way, cancer or leukaemia… he could have grieved with a clear heart, cried also. But suicide seemed a deliberate act of spite which the Judge resented.

And in answer the words trembled on his lips - the words which are surely the root of all human grief - so that he almost said aloud : 'Almighty Host! Utmost power of the universe! I have done those things which I ought not to have done and left undone those things which I ought to have done. So this cannot truly be the end.

Harry: I supposed getting married wouldn't be any worse than killing myself.

Twigs and beetles and dead body. Water and blood. You'll never get back.

Dead and never called her mother, in fact," misquoted Sloan, who had once seen the Berebury Amateur Dramatic Society play East Lynne, and never forgotten the searing experience.

A ghost from her past, part of a world to which she no longer belonged but had never stopped missing.

A man whose yesterdays rest on his horizon travels forward into his past. The result is that he goes a very long way to nowhere.

Oh God, I'm sorry I bring trouble on people. I don't mean to, you know that, you know that. And don't punish me by taking Ned. Keep him safe that's all I ask. That's all I'll ever ask again, just keep him safe.

There were worse things than being young and foolish.

He felt the rush of years, years wasted and years used wisely. He felt time moving through him, as if it were a ghost, a thing that can haunt a man's days and nights.

This is what keeps ghosts locked to the earth, that sweet burning need for something they loved and gave up too soon.

The years of her life tumbled out onto the floor like marbles that she would never be able to gather up again in one bowl. The years of her life had been a made puzzle that one day gets unmade, the pieces all scattered.

looking off at the past as though it were a place one might still get to

I wonder why I still want to slap her. I must be a very mean and unforgiving person.

You are a sad, sad little man and you have my pity. — Buzz Lightyear