Quotes About Regret

Tahitians, knew that it was madness to go on alone.  So he stood waist-deep in the grass and looked regretfully across the rolling savannah and the soft-swelling foothills to the Lion's Head, a massive peak of rock that upreared into the azure from the midmost centre of Guadalcanar, a landmark used for bearings by every coasting mariner, a mountain as yet

Biliyor musunuz,' diye ekledi. 'Bay Butler'a ac?yorum. DoÄŸru dürüst harcayamayaca?? otuz bin dolar kazanmak için hayat?n? boÅŸa harcam??. Niye mi, çünkü art?k otuz bin dolar verse bile çocukken on sente alabileceÄŸi ÅŸeyleri alamaz, mesela ÅŸeker, f?st?k veya tiyatroda en üst balkondan bir bilet.

his great love for John Thornton that he lost his head.

And he dreamed as only age can dream upon the colossal futility of youth.

Experience, my dear lady, has taught me a sad truth: time flows in one direction only! As the days pass none of us grows younger. Sometimes we postpone glorious schemes only to discover in the end that they never have materialized! Procrastination is the thief of life!

After you, it's all cheap tequila.

Only insofar as you enjoy being sorry, my dear, which, while it is a considerable amount, occurs only after the fact, thus making it a singularly ineffective deterrent, yes?

And having once chosen, never to seek to return to the crossroads of that decision-for even if one chooses wrongly, the choice cannot be unmade.

Hey, sister buzz-kill, she said languorously to Jen. What crawled up your ass and died? I don't know, Jen retorted. What died and crawled up your ass? There were times I regretted being an only child. This wasn't one of them.

Anne felt sad. People parted, years passed, they met again Ã¢â'¬â€ and the meeting proved no reunion, offered no warm memories, only the acid knowledge that time had passed and things weren't as bright or attractive as they had been.

What if this really is goodbye? What if this is the last time you ever see your mum?

Am I the worst person in the world??? I've just been so mean to my little stepsister and now she's blubbing away and no one will even tell me off, because I'm the poor, helpless cripple. Why do I have to be so mean?

he didn't get cross. Why, why, why couldn't my mum have found herself a bloke like him? Why did she have to lumber herself with Jason? Miss Lovejoy says there

Never let fears get in the way of happiness, because fear can lead to such irrational reasoning, and we can make dreadful mistakes, saying things we can't take back.

Standing alongside a harp, she stretched out her hand and ran her fingers across the strings, the tumble of notes reminding her of a shower on a bright day, of primrose petals bending to the weight of raindrops. She regretted never having learned to play an instrument.

Then as each month, each year passed, it was as if the memory of you - of us… the explosion - were encased in a fine tissue-paper.' … 'I felt as if I were looking through a window to my own past, and instead of being transparent, my view was becoming more and more opaque, until eventually the time had passed. The time for coming to see you had passed.

I know now that what is tragic isn't the moment. It is the memory.

La parte de tu muerte que me doy, la parte de tu muerte que yo puse de mi cosecha, cómo poder pagártela… Ni la parte de vida que tuvimos juntos.

grité que por favor que no volviéramos nunca, nunca jamás a casa. Por supuesto, volvimos.

This is the greatest evil that grows out of a wrong act. Somebody always remembers it Ã¢â'¬Â¦ in an evil way.

To live in thoughts of what you might have done, or in dreams of what you mean to do, this is folly: but to put away regret, to anchor anticipation, and to do and to work now, this is wisdom. Whilst a man is dwelling upon the past or future he is missing the present; he is forgetting to live now. All things are possible now, and only now.

suffering is of self. All suffering ends in Truth. When you have entered into and realized Truth, you will no longer suffer disappointment, remorse, and regret, and sorrow will flee from you.

Many people die at 25 but are not put in the coffin until 75. The learning stopped for them early.

Money you lose you can always make back. But even five minutes of time lost is gone forever.