Quotes About Regret

A criminal always returns home.

I'm sick of the images trapped in my headI'm sick of being preoccupied with the dead

You chose love and you lost.

You only spoke a single line, yet it felt like a life sentence.

Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.

I was a fool for love, I was a fool.

We may only ever have one great, passionate love, but sometimes it's best to leave that kind of love in the past. A love like that can't last forever.

You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

The misfortune to be born when I was, where I was. That was a piece of bad luck.

All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.

My dad had a lot of bad luck. You could see his suffering, his terrible suffering, living a life that was disappointing and looking for another one.

Bir treni kaç?rmak ancak peÅŸinden koÅŸarsan?z ac? verici olur.

regretted not having insisted on speaking in Arabic

How was your year?" brings them a small but containable spasm of pain deep inside, since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

since almost all of their years will seem wasted to someone looking at their life from the outside.

He will die with the impression of having done nothing useful.

Imagine what might have happened had you not missed your train

Yet she never had the heart to reread the painful ending.

Ma è vero che a un certo punto della nostra vita i rimorsi li inzuppiamo nel caffè la mattina come biscotti.

So I wasn't there when he died, which I regret. But after a certain point in life a person has to dunk her regrets in the morning coffee, just like biscuits.

Allora io avevo fede in un avvenire facile e lieto, ricco di desideri appagati, di esperienze e di comuni imprese. Ma era quello il tempo migliore della mia vita e solo adesso che m'è sfuggito per sempre, solo adesso lo so. [Inverno in Abruzzo - Le piccole virtù]

Il rifiutarsi al presente, l'isolarsi nel rimpianto d'un passato defunto, vuol dire rifiutarsi di pensare. Mi sembra però ancora più melenso, e ancora più colpevole, l'atteggiamento inverso: cioè il costringere noi stessi ad amare e inseguire tutto quanto di nuovo compare intorno a noi. Questa è ancor più un'offesa contro il vero. Vuol dire aver paura di mostrarci come siamo, cioè stanchi, amari, ormai immobili e vecchi.

I was more'n forty by then," said Miles sadly. "I was married. I had two children. But, from the look of me, I was still twenty-two. My wife, she finally made up her mind I'd sold my soul to the Devil. She left me. She went away and she took the children with her." "I'm glad I never got married," Jesse put in.

And then his throat closed. For it was there. He had wanted it to be there, but now that he saw it, he was overcome with sadness.