Quotes About Regret

Lost time is never found again." ~ Benjamin Franklin

Might have, could have, may have, should have—the haves and have nots reduced to pointless possibilities.

Every sin (past, present, and future) we have committed

Lucas Glover was the name of the man standing at the doorway in the heat. And though most called him Luke, he answered to either. Still, he suddenly wished that his name was a different one entirely and that he was standing anywhere else at that particular moment.

What I do know is sometimes we love the wrong people and sometimes we marry them.

I stopped believing in forever years and years ago-but every breakup hurt me anyway. Every woman who left took part of me with her. Maybe I wasn't too full with the past-maybe I was just too empty. I just didn't know if I had anything left.

The heart makes its choices without weighing the consequences. It doesn't look ahead to the lonely nights that follow.

You don't have to die to go to hell.

When you start to say to yourself, just one look back, just one glance, the danger will have begun for you.

Do not hold on to the bitterness, Isabelle, it will eat at your body like worms, and you will ruin your future because of it. I was not always this unhappy. I know what people call me behind my back

I thought to myself how lucky, how lucky that I jumped at my only chance when I could. Sure, I did not love him, but I was loved. I had everything Corazón had wanted. I had beaten her at every round, yet I felt nothing but a devastating emptiness inside. Y

I had many dreams, too. But I became bitter, and by the time I realized it, I had almost wished my whole life away.

Talking about the old days made Kate anything but nostalgic; actually, despite what everybody said about youth, most of her past made her shudder, in sheer disgust and in relief that she didn't have to live it over again.

Totto-chan regretted it with all her heart. Yes, that was it. What on earth made her beat the boy she liked so much? She Sharpened his pencils every day! But it was too late. She could never be his bride now. "I'm going to go on sharpening his pencils all the same," Totto-chan decided. "After all, I love him.

The years I have squandered in puerile excitement, in going hither and thither, in seeking to force nature and time, I ought to have spent in solitude and meditation, in endeavoring to make myself worthy of being loved.

Dynasties of felines, as numerous as the dynasties of Egyptian kings, succeeded each other in our home. Accident, flight, or death accounted for them in turns. They were all beloved and regretted; but life is made up of forgetfulness, and the remembrance of cats passes away like the remembrance of men.

Oh, Graciosa, I have never been able to think about it without terror, loving somebody who is unworthy of my love. To bare my soul to impure eyes, and allow someone to defile the sanctuary of my heart. For though you may make a complete break some silt will always remains, and the stream never regains the original clarity.

Opportunities are like shooting stars if you wait too long you miss them"

Why she had to go I don't know, she wouldn't say I said something wrong Now I long for yesterday

Yesterday, All my troubles seemed so far away, Now it looks as though they're here to stay, Oh, I believe in yesterday

Pile up too many tomorrows and you'll find that you've collected nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays.

A caged bird set free may be caught again, a hurtful word that escapes your lips will not return

j'ai lu une phrase: pouvez-vous me dire si elle provient du Talmud? Tu ne seras pas puni pour les pêchés commis, mais pour touts les bons moments que tu n'as pas vécus

Oh yes, Joh—oh yes! Your sin walks behind you like a good dog on the trail. It does not lose your scent, Joh—it remains always and always at your back. A friend is unarmed against his friend. He has no shield before his breast, nor armor before his heart. A friend who believes in his friend is a defenseless man. A defenseless man was it whom you betrayed, Joh.