Quotes About Regret

Kostbare tijd, die niet meer te achterhalen is, heb ik vermorst.

To that creature, being born, Its birthday is a day to mourn

Being asked for what purpose he thought men were bom, he laughingly replied: " To realise how much better it were not to be born.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do

Hell is the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do...For me that conception of hell lies in two words: Too late!

Tante volte non ci rendiamo conto che le cose che facciamo per la prima volta sono punti di non ritorno. Nel bene e soprattutto nel male . Se sono sbagliate, nessuno ce le restituirà mai più.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

Vous avez vécu dans le souvenir du bonheur, Karim. Rien n'empêche le bonheur comme le souvenir du bonheur

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

There are consequences to your desires that you will regret, no matter how much you imagine your evils are unintended.

Time doesn't offer a refund.

How many walks down the stairs will I regret not having made?

When you are keeping a secret from someone, and that person dies, the secret becomes impossible to dislodge from inside you.

Increase the number of adventures you act on and you'll lighten the weight of regret.

We all do stupid, careless, or hurtful things that we later regret. If relationships are to last, we have to find a way to not only forgive these indiscretions, but also forget them.

Sometimes I make very selfish choices like I did 'Once Upon A Time' for my inner 8-year-old and my hypothetical future child. I've done some movies because I would regret them if I didn't, but other projects I've done because they've scared me or if I felt I needed to do a big romantic comedy to help me professionally.

Él apenas tenía pasado y el que tenía estaba todo lleno de ella.

If only I'd done it then, when I should have, everything would have been easy. What a joke.

Per me, non meno che per lei, più del presente contava il passato, più del possesso il ricordarsene. Di fronte alla memoria, ogni possesso non può apparire che delusivo, banale, insufficiente...Come mi capiva! La mia ansia che il presente diventasse "subito" passato perché potessi amarlo e vagheggiarlo a mio agio era anche sua, tale e quale. Era il "nostro" vizio, questo: d'andare avanti con le teste sempre voltate all'indietro.

Andare a caccia di ricordi non è mai un bell'affare. Qualunque cosa trovi sulla tua strada, rimane in ogni caso un nulla di fatto. Quelli belli non li puoi più catturare e quelli brutti non li puoi uccidere.

He would not want to sound like a haunted man; he would not want to sound as though he was calling from a welfare hotel, years too late, to say Yes, that was a baby we had together, it would have been a baby. For he could not help now but recall the doctor explaining about that child, a boy, who had appeared so mysteriously perfect in the ultrasound. Transparent, he had looked, and gelatinous, all soft head and quick heart; but he would have, in being born, broken every bone in his body.

Lembra-se desse filme? Eu aquiesci com o ar vagamente culpado de quem prometera várias vezes vê-lo, sem jamais encontrar força para o fazer.

There were dreams once upon a time, dreams now all but forgotten. On sad days I dust them off and fondle them nostalgically, with a patronizing wonder at the naivete of the youth who dreamed them.

I can laugh at peasants and townies chained all their lives to a tiny corner of the earth while I roam its face and see its wonders, but when I go down, there will be no child to carry my name, no family to mourn me save my comrades, no one to remember, no one to raise a marker over my cold bit of ground.