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Quotes About Regret

The one thing I don't miss is how we fought so much. I can't believe we wasted so much time fussing over nothing. I think about every time I hurt you.
~ Tayari Jones
When a man wails like that you know it's all the tears that he was never allowed to shed, from Little League disappointment to teenage heartbreak, all the way to whatever injured his spirit just last year.
~ Tayari Jones
Everything which happened before my meeting her was a premonition; everything I did after I killed her was an apology; not for killing her, but for the lie that was my life.
~ Tayeb Salih
You show up in Paris, and on the drive from the airport to the hotel you're like, 'This is so cool! I want to see something! I want to go to the Eiffel Tower!' And then you leave the next morning. You think, Oh, I didn't get to do anything. I tell people: I've been just about everywhere, but I've seen nothing.
~ Taylor Lautner
Live your life like you're 80 looking back on your teenager years. You know if your dad calls you at eight in the morning and asks if you want to go out for breakfast. As a teenager you're like no, I want to sleep. But as an eighty year old looking back you have that breakfast with your dad. It just little things like that, that helped me when I was a teenager in terms of making choices you won't regret.
~ Taylor Swift
And Ill look back and regret how I ignored when they said, Run as fast as you can.
~ Taylor Swift
I remember tears streaming down your face, When I said I'd never let you go
~ Taylor Swift
I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time.
~ Taylor Swift
Just because as human beings, what we can't have is what we reply in our head over and over again before we go to sleep.
~ Taylor Swift
Well I found that picture Of you in that green dress. Sure had a good time Cleanin' up that mess. He found thirty other pieces, But he'll never find them all. Tried to tape them back together. Now he knows to keep them off the wall!
~ Taylor Swift
And you'll add my name to your long list of traitors who don't understand, and I'll look back and regret how I ignored when they said run as fast as you can. (Dear John)
~ Taylor Swift
And I'm dying to know, is it killing you like it's killing me? And the story of us looks a lot like a tragedy now.
~ Taylor Swift
If I have committed any culinary atrocities, please forgive me.
~ Ted Allen
A wise man never regrets the questions he asks. Only the ones he didn't ask.
~ Ted Bell
Nothing erases the past. There is repentance, there is atonement, and there is forgiveness. That is all, but that is enough.
~ Ted Chiang
I knew it was foolhardy; men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity,
~ Ted Chiang
If you could see your whole life laid out in front of you, would you change things?
~ Ted Chiang
men of experience say, "Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.
~ Ted Chiang
Nada borra el pasado. Existe el arrepentimiento, existe la enmienda, y existe el perdón. No hay más, pero con eso basta.
~ Ted Chiang
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity," and
~ Ted Chiang
Hassan stared at the boy for a long moment, and then his anger faded, and he let him go. When next he saw his older self, Hassan asked him, "Why did you not warn me about the pickpocket?" "Did you not enjoy the experience?
~ Ted Chiang
Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity
~ Ted Chiang
It is said that repentance and atonement erase the past.
~ Ted Chiang
And as he stood there outside the bedroom door, he could hear her sobbing, on the floor paralyzed with shame, exactly the same as he had been when it was him on the other side.
~ Ted Chiang