Quotes About Regret

It is not frightening to know misfortune. What is frightening is to know lost happiness will never come back again.

Even if it doesn't alter or change the end result even in the slightest... making decisions based on convictions that you believe in... and walking your own path... has it's own merit and worth. There's something to be said for not having... even on regret.

Goodbye…warrior of the sky. Promise me…that you'll never forgive me.

The wound lies deep, like the ocean floor. The sin is red, growing paler in death.

Rangiku…I couldn't do it. I couldn't get back what he took from you. Oh.. I'm so glad I got to tell you I was sorry.

It's too bad…I wouldn't have minded being your prisoner a while longer. Goodbye…Rangiku. I'm sorry.

I had no right to see them this way.

Anders burst our laughing. He covered his mouth with both hands and said, I'm sorry, I'm sorry, then snorted helplessly through his fingers and said, Capiche - oh, God, capiche, and at that...

Of all human lamentations, without doubt, the most common is if only I had known. But we can't know, and so days of death and fire so often begin no differently than those of love and warmth.

Mr. President. Douglas MacArthur said every military disaster can be explained in two words: 'Too late.

The worst punishment there is for wanting the wrong thing is getting it.

Phaedra] wasn't perfect, by any stretch of the imagination, but I would willingly have trade all my prizes in the Festivals, even the prize for the Demes, just to have known her a little better.

And of course they used her like a disposable object, without regret or apology, because that's what privilege is—the license to treat other people like shit while still getting to believe that you're a good person.

And right now he was feeling the weight of all those losses, and the weight of the years that were behind him, and the weight of the ones that were still ahead, however many there might be – three or four, twenty or thirty, maybe more.

She knew exactly what was weighing him down: that helpless feeling that you were wasting your precious youth and it was your own damn fault.

Tinder was like tequila—fun today, sad tomorrow

the chance to leave your old self behind. To take all your mistakes and regrets and erase them from the story. Who wouldn't want that?

And then, Lance walked out on her right after the holidays, no warning at all, unless you count years of unhappiness as a warning.

And later, of course, she got too busy. She asks Royce if he heard anything from Grace, ever. "No. No. Why should I?" "I just thought." "No." "I thought you might have looked her up later on." "Not a good idea." She has disappointed him. Prying. Trying to get at some spot of live regret right under the ribs. A woman.

I was supposed to have a son.

thinking how good it was to be free, away from the baby and from Tom, too, the two people who couldn't help reminding her of everything that had gone wrong, and what a fool she'd been.

Every daydream that involves the past sports in its hatband a ticket to the grave.

It was quite likely the best advice I've ever received. I can't help but wonder what my life would have been like if I'd actually followed it.

As you know, I've been sick and stupid for a long time. I have a lot to make up for