Quotes About Regret

There is something worse than kissing the wrong person. It is wanting to.

something you wish you'd

Bad choices. That was all there were anymore.

should have told Emily everything and held on to her. Instead, I pretended I was okay. I could handle it. I'm a marine. And here I am Ã¢â'¬Â¦ and there she is." He leaned forward. "You have kids, right?" She nodded, sitting back.

Leni thought maybe that he would haunt her. Not just him, but the idea of him, the sad and scary truth that you could love and hate the same person at the same time, that you could feel a deep and abiding loss and shame for your own weakness and still be glad that this awful thing had been done.

and love took shape in the air around them, a regret and memory-filled version, maybe, sad around the edges, but love.

She had made a terrible, grievous mistake. She couldn't take it back, however much she might hope for such a chance; she couldn't undo it, but a good woman would accept responsibility—and blame—and apologize. Whatever else she was or wasn't, whatever her failings, she intended to be a good woman.

probably never said I love you to another human being . . . How could Kate have said that? And then not called to apologize . . . or to say hello . . . or even to wish her a happy birthday?

But this new emotion…this feeling in the pit of his stomach that he'd been a bad person, that he'd hurt his brother deeply and known it and never bothered to make it right…

Some days I wake up and think, How did I get here? It's like one day, you just realize you're not young anymore, and you already made your choices, and now it's too late to change anything.

You have to be absolutely sure. Otherwise, regret will grow in spaces you don't even know are there.

Life changes you, even if you don't realize it while it's happening, and it turns out you can't take back the years that have passed by.

endless moments like this stretching before us. I loved him deeply, but I never really knew that every second we had together was a gift until he was gone.

Not that I regretted having Annie; I'd never felt that way for a second. I just regretted that I'd never had a chance to live the life I'd thought I was supposed to.

Please," she whispered. "Please stay in Switzerland with me. What if you lose your life, Rémy?" He turned away. "If I die for France, it won't be a life lost. It will be a country saved. My only regret will be that it will cost me the chance for a future with you.

Hope, you can't go through life living by all the rules and doing what people expect of you without thinking for yourself, you know? That's how you wake up at the age of eighty or whatever and realize life has passed you by.

When you're young, you see only the future. When you grow older, you see the past." She turned to stare out the window. After a long pause, she spoke again, her voice quivering in a way Liv had never heard before. "And the past has a way of showing you things clearly, whether you like it or not.

too." She couldn't believe she'd said the words aloud. How could she still be so angry with Lucie?

My mistake wasn't in letting the marriage end; it was in fooling myself into believing that marrying him was a good idea in the first place.

Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.

Kueller shook his head. "You don't hate Skywalker. You hate the way he makes you feel. You hate yourself, Brakiss. You hate what you've become.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

I really haven't had that exciting of a life. There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life. So I pretty much like to make it up. I'd rather tell a story about somebody else.

There are a lot of things I wish I would have done, instead of just sitting around and complaining about having a boring life.