Quotes About Regret

Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

Panda gazed at her plastic-bag pregnancy. "Here I am, about to be a father, and the sex wasn't even that good." She fought the urge to apologize.

I got on my knees once for love, and I don't recommend it.

Yet only six days ago, you were in my office on your knees telling me you'd do anything to land me as a client. —I was young and stupid.

in his chest, his heart seeped. It wasn`t blood that escaped - that had been shed long ago - but a thick, bile-like fluid that ran through veins that had become rivers of pain carrying a bottomless cargo of grief.

No puedo resistirme a ti —dijo Alex con suavidad. —¿Lo sabes, no? Y ya me he cansado den fingir lo contrario —adoptó una expresión de profunda preocupación. —Pero no te amo, Daisy, y no puedes hacerte una idea de cuánto lo siento, porque si tuviera que amar a alguien, sería a ti.

Dancer nudged him in the shoulder. "I know, fella. She got me good. And it's my own fault." His horse poked him in the jaw in agreement.

Of course I remember. I remember my aching back and the drizzle, and the throb of my piercing in the top of my ear. I'd left university because of him. I'd learnt that I didn't want to be anywhere he wasn't, that I physically couldn't stand it. I was eighteen; he was in his early thirties. I came up the lane and found him standing there, under the limes, wearing blue.

She used to wear pretty clothes and be lively, when she was Minnie Foster, one of the town girls singing in the choir. But that—oh, that was thirty years ago.

Oh, I wish I'd come over here once in a while! That was a crime! That was a crime! Who's going to punish that?

Andrew watched her out of the room as if he could hardly bear to see her go. "What a fool I've been," he said, for the fiftieth time. "They say we're all fools in love," said Miss Deane to me later. "What do you mean?" "Andrew Ross and Mrs O'Day – I wouldn't be surprised if they make a match of it one day.

The arrogance of sixteen! If only I had retained it!

For I see that then I was still all in a state of innocence, but that innocence, once lost, is lost forever.

He should have left long ago. He actually did once – or nearly did, but Zelda pulled him back. Not that he needed any persuasion with her warm, welcoming body the ultimate Nirvana and his libido operating within the very narrow range of sex, sex, and more sex.

Ah, well...hell is full of burning boats, did you know that, Nadir? I daresay that's what makes it so bloody hot.

Words spoken in the heat of the moment may be forgiven; words preserved for ever on parchment may overreach their mark once passion has abated.

As each hour passes it's like a door has closed. You will never be able to revisit that hour to undo something you regret, or to do something you should have, so it's important to make the hour you are in the one that counts.

really hadn't wanted to miss

He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.

I could never regret you. Us

His voice softened, and he looked at her, his beautiful eyes glossy. "Cookie, if I could, I'd start all over with you. Do things right. Honor us both." ...His mouth opened. Closed. He swallowed, and a single tear dripped onto his cheek.

How had she ever thought sleeping with him would be a stress reliever, when he was the biggest producer of her stress?

I've often wished I could turn back time and do things differently, but maybe it's better to start anew than to go back in time and hope you have the courage and wisdom to make different choices.

People who say everything happens for a reason usually say that only when they agree with the reason. Those people are not the ones who wish they could fold back time and make different choices. They don't lie awake at night and whisper, If only . . .