Quotes About Regret

My father gave me the best advice of my life. He said, "Whatever you do, don't wake up at 65 years old and think about what you should have done with your life."

I was in a bar and I said to a friend, 'You know, we've become those 40-year-old guys we used to look at and say, 'Isn't it sad?'

I've been left for someone...all those things...It was sometimes a surprise, and sometimes you saw t coming. The most painful was when I kept trying to get someone back. But we all make dumb mistakes.

O Miss Bailey!Unfortunate Miss Bailey!

Better to love amiss than nothing to have loved.

But he died of distemper when he was eleven months old. I do not know if little dogs cause as large griefs when they die as big ones; but I settled there should be no more dogs—big or little—for me.

When death comes it is never our tenderness that we repent from, but our severity.

The killing of his kid brother had drained Josiah Hedges of everything that is good and decent in the human spirit. He was now a killer of the worse kind. A man alone.

You threw him away. Sloppy, Hugh.

seeing Derek fall as he turned human again, and then running too fast up Pillar Rock. She'd dropped to her knees and put her head on his chest, and when she'd heard the strong, even heartbeat, she'd cried and then kissed his lips gently, because he was asleep and he would never know. He'd scared her so much. Stupid wolf. Her stupid, stupid wolf.

What happened? I asked quietly. I lost some people, [Rogan] said. There was an awful finality in his voice. I hadn't thought he cared. I'd thought he viewed his people as tools and took care of them because tools had to be kept in good repair, but this sounded like genuine grief — that complicated cocktail of guilt, regret, and overwhelming sadness you felt when someone close to you died. It broke you and made you feel helpess. Helpless wasn't even in Rogan's vocabulary.

He took the risk and his people had died. He blamed himself. It didn't reflect in his face, but I saw it in his eyes for a brief moment, before they went back to their icy blue. The last time we talked, I was almost completely convinced that he was a sociopath. He seemed invulnerable, as if nothing could bother him. This did.

You have a strange look on your face," he said. "I just realized I shouldn't be in the same vehicle with you. In fact, I shouldn't have called you in the first place, so I'm trying very hard to rewind time.

If it weren't for my mother's sacrifice, I would be Hugh now, sitting here, waiting for a crumb of kindness from someone I'd hurt.

Well, if he wasn't dead, he definitely wasn't happy. Great, I've turned into my mother. That's what she would say.

He'd left for a reason, and I didn't want to be anyone's blast from the past. Still, not knowing was worse than any potential awkwardness.

I could've picked somebody rational. But no, I had to fall in love with this arrogant idiot.

I'm ashamed to be your daughter. I should walk the street apologizing to everyone I meet for the fact that you still exist

That's a lovely story," Sean said. "We should go back.

I could've fallen for someone steady. Dependable. Well-grounded. But nooo, I had to lose my head over this idiot. Curran

They were fodder, but to him they were children, just like he had once been a child. Just like Jack. He had to find Spider. He had to kill him. Child murder had to be punished.

I checked his eyes and saw the familiar superiority. He was painfully aware that his world was populated with people of lesser intelligence, and his eyes told me he was regretfully resigned to slumming. Saiman.

I apologize for kidnapping you," he said. "I promise not to kidnap you before, during, or after lunch.

Oh, now that's not nice ..." Kaldar clicked his tongue.