Quotes About Regret

But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

I am sorry, my darling, but there will never be another to replace you. The words I whispered to you were folly, and should have realized it then. You- and you alone- have always been the only thing I wanted, and now that you are gone have no desire to find another.

when she was able to imagine a different life that might have been hers, the kind of life she knew that she'd always really wanted

The sun has come up and I am sitting by a window that is foggy with the breath of a life gone by.

She cursed herself for forgetting something as important as creating beauty.

We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say..

Life, it seemed was full of regret, and he yearned to turn back the clock so he could love parts of his life over again.

Instead, it had more to do with the sense that somehow she'd lost sight of the person she'd once meant to be, and she wasn't sure she'd ever have the opportunity to find that person again.

Every one has a past, but that's just is -- it's in the past

Realizing that if she quit now, she would always wonder what would happened. And she didn't think she could live with that.

Todo el mundo tiene sueños que no llegan a cumplirse —respondió ella con un tono suave.

But if you'd told me, I would have been around more. We could have seen each other more, I could have helped you so you wouldn't be so tired all of the time. Just knowing you were here was more than enough. But maybe you wouldn't have ended up in the hospital. He reached for her hand. Or maybe watching you enjoy a care-free summer while you fell in love was what kept me out of the hospital in the first place.

Verzeihen heißt nicht, dass man vergisst oder dass man sich nicht mehr wünscht, die Vergangenheit ändern zu können. Hauptsächlich bedeutet es zu akzeptieren, dass man nicht perfekt ist, weil niemand das ist. Und schreckliche Dinge können jedem passieren.

But back then, she'd tended to focus first on their appearance, and she could remember saying no to a few guys who hadn't been quite cute enough. And maybe that had been the problem. Maybe she'd turned down Mr. Right because he hadn't been tall enough or whatever, and now -- because he was Mr. Right -- he was already off the market. These days, it seemed like Mr. Rights tended to fly off the shelves perhaps because they were as rare as California condos

The past was gone, after all, and the future was the only thing they had left.

I'm not proud of who I was back then, but I also know it's impossible to change the past.

Most people lived their lives like criminals: act first, worry about the consequences later.

At that age I once stabbed my best friend, Fred, with a pair of pinking shears in the base of the neck, enraged because he had been given the comprehensive sixty-four-crayon Crayola box—including the gold and silver crayons—and would not let me look closely at the box to see how Crayola had stabilized the built-in crayon sharpener under the tiers of crayons.

For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

And it's not like you never do anything wrong ever, is it?' said Marcus. 'I mean...' He had to be careful here. He knew he couldn't say too much or even anything at all about the hospital stuff. 'I mean how come I got to know Will in the first place?' Because you threw a bloody great baguette at a duck's head and killed it, basically,' said Will.

What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper.

If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements..

I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've been able to.