Quotes About Regret

O, how I wish I had never seen him! Loving is misery for women always.

Bygones would never be complete bygones till she was a bygone herself.

Love is an utterly bygone, sorry, worn-out, miserable thing with me- for him or anyone else.

You simply mean that you flirted outrageously with him, poor old chap, and then repented, and to make reparation, married him, though you tortured yourself to death by doing it.

It was a fatal omission of Boldwood's that he had never once told her she was beautiful.

you temptress,Tess; you dear damned witch of Babylon- I could not resist you as soon as I met you again.

What a fool she must have been ever to have had anything to do with the man!

I was born bad, and I have lived bad, and I shall die bad in all probability.

But nobody did come, because nobody does: and under the crushing recognition of his gigantic error Jude continued to wish himself out if the world.

Jude leaped out of arm's reach, and walked along the trackway weeping--not from the pain, though that was keen enough; not from the perception of the flaw in the terrestrial scheme, by which what was good for God's birds was bad for God's gardener; but with the awful sense that he had wholly disgraced himself before he had been a year in the parish, and hence might be a burden to his great-aunt for life.

Tis because we be on a blighted star, and not a sound one, isn't it, Tess? murmured Abraham through his tears.

Well, here I am, just come home; a fellow gone to the bad; though I had the best intentions in the world at one time. Now I am melancholy mad, what with drinking and one thing and another.

Hate him she did not quite; but he was dust and ashes to her...

he turned to go his own way, and hardly knew he loved her still.

You are nothing to me—nothing, said Troy, heartlessly. A ceremony before a priest doesn't make a marriage. I am not morally yours.

He was conscious of a cold and sickly thrill throughout him; and all he reasoned was this, that the young creature whose graces had intoxicated him into making the most imprudent decision of his life, was less an angel than a women.

There are considerations even before my consideration for you; reparations to be made-ties you know nothing of. If you repent of marrying, so do I.

Dazzled by brass and scarlet - O, Bathsheba - this is a woman's folly indeed!

Why did Troy not leave my treasure alone?

That Elizabeth-Jane Farfrae be not told of my death, or made to grieve on account of me. & that I be not bury'd in consecrated ground. & that no sexton be asked to toll the bell. & that nobody is wished to see my dead body. & that no mourners walk behind me at my funeral. & that no flowers be planted on my grave, & that no man remember me. To this I put my name.

I have seen your mother; and I will never see her again!

and when he awoke it was as if he had awakened in hell. It WAS hell—the hell of conscious failure

You were nothing to me once, and I was contented; you are now nothing to me again, and how different the second nothing is from the first! Would to God you had never taken me up, since it was only to throw me down!

After wearing and wasting her palpitating heart with every engine of regret that lonely inexperience could devise, common sense had illumined her. She felt that she would do well to be useful again—to taste anew sweet independence at any price. The past was past; whatever it had been, it was no more at hand. Whatever its consequences, time would close over them;