Quotes About Regret

Just once, I'd love to be heartbroken because someone loved me and left me, instead of heartbroken because I never got on that train at all.

Life was kind and full of chances. Sometimes we didn't take them. Sometimes we hid our truth and acted out of fear. Sometimes we turned away and closed the door.

Adam loves me. I know he loves me. To think I thought it was a tree. A knothole. Some kind of hole, yes, but really, I am such an idiot. Almost forty, and pathetically naive.

WAKE UP around three in the morning, knowing immediately that Colonel has died.

I just don't want you to look back on your life twenty years from now, Maggie, and see all the things you could have done," Mom says, blowing her nose again. "I think I'll look back and see all the things I did do, Mom," I say, a little starch creeping into my voice. "I'll see that I fed people and welcomed them, I helped them and kept them company... those are good things, Mom.

I'm all used up inside, love." Two tears slid down her cheeks. "That's not how I see you at all." "Which says more about you than it does about me, darling. I'm sorry." He

It's never gonna be over, is it? Thinking about the life we might have had.

Then you shouldn't have thrown her away when she was your wife. Now she ain't. Now she's somethin' to me and I don't let men I don't like get close to her and I gotta tell you man, I do not like you.

How could she make amends without knowing for what? She guessed she would never know, unless he chose to talk to her. She wanted to reach out to him and try to settle the matter, but it was difficult right now with them so far apart.

And then I did the stupidest thing I've ever done. "They're not here," I said. I knew, as the words left my mouth, that I had just made a deep mistake.

I want to change. I know I could if you give me another chance." I couldn't even laugh. He had gone for pitiful and passed right through it to pathetic. "If you want to change, you'll do it on your own.

Unfortunately those eyes - his eyes - never fade. They've haunted my dreams for years." - Hannah (Forsaken)

What-ifs are kind of like ex-boyfriends. The more attention you give them, the more likely they are to stalk you and show up in you bedroom closet when you are getting out of the shower.

What-ifs are kind of like ex-boyfriends." Carmen appeared on my other side. "The more attention you give 'em, the more likely they are to stalk you and show up in your bedroom closet when you're getting out of the shower.

People can do all kinds of things that maybe aren't wise in hindsight because of jealousy.

When I did finally speak, I surprised myself by saying exactly what was on my mind. "You must hate me." She stared a long time at me. I did," she said slowly, "But it's mostly myself I hate." Don't," I said. And why the hell shouldn't I hate myself? Everybody else hates me.

Ah crap!" I instantly shooed away darkness and whatnot, so that I was solid, visible me again. "Sorry, Stevie Rae. I forgot I'd gone all Bram Stoker.

Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.

Don't worry about dying, Elsa. Worry about not living. Be brave." - Grandpa Wolcott

To lose love is a terrible thing. But to turn away from it is unbearable. Will you spend the rest of your life replaying it in your head? Wondering if you walked away too soon or too easily? Or if you'll ever love anyone that deeply again?

Then he left her there, standing alone, surrounded by word ghosts; things she could have said.

That was the one thing she knew now. Some chances came and went, and if you missed them, you could spend the rest of your life standing alone, waiting for an opportunity that had already passed you by.

I would not love him again. Not if I had known how it would feel to live with a broken heart.

Time goes too quickly. This is the advice that my mother should have given me from her hospital bed. Instead of vague, unknowable quips like "Be careful what you wish for," she should have told me time slides away on a hillside of loose shale and takes everything in its path - dreams, opportunities, hopes. And youth. It takes that fastest of all.