Quotes About Regret

Sometimes you only saw yourself clearly in the eyes of those you've left, and what you saw was a horror.

Now Violet had let herself go until she could barely make it out of the house to buy her Oreos and booze. But if you looked closely, beneath the folds of flesh ravaged by bitterness and drink, you could see the lovely creature she had been, and what she had been then was just as bitter and vindictive as what she was now.

Nostalgia is a fire fueled by failures of memory.

He wasnt afraid of dying, only of having not done all he could, and not properly spitting in the eye of death when it came for him. That final gesture was important.

Una de las grandes tragedias de nuestra existencia es ver cómo tantos hombres y mujeres desperdician sus vidas. El

Except for the young or very happy, I can't say I am sorry for anyone who dies.

Listen, / my wary one, it's far too late / to unlove each other.

First is a poem, a ballad, out of Scotland. You may say there is no king in it, and of course there isn't, which is what makes it so sad. The last line of the third verse, 'O he might hae been a king' is so sad that I don't like to look at it with both eyes at once.

Aye. He was very nice there. The rest of my life'll be an anti-climax.

I haven't been faithful to my wife. Our marriage has been tainted with my infidelities. I was irresponsible.

Why must conversions always come so late? Why do people always apologize to corpses?

Asked why he thought Florian had left, Wolfgang Flür's reply was terse, but probably accurate: 'Too old, not necessary any more, enough money, especially no more flying: he was tired of all that. I think he should have done it earlier, much earlier.

Maybe I was drinking and drugging more than I should have done. Well, in fact, I know I was for Black Tie White Noise and Let's Dance.

It was a daylight waterfall of regret known to all addicts. It can't get worse, but it does. When the bottom arrives, the cold fact of it all, it is always a surprise. Over fiteen years, I had made a seemingly organic journey from pothead to party boy, from knockaround guy to friendless thug. At thirty-one, I was washed out of my profession, morally and physically corrupt, but I still had almost a year left in the Life. I wasn't done yet.

I am safe—I am safe—yes—if I be not fool enough to make open confession!" —EDGAR ALLAN POE, "THE IMP OF THE PERVERSE

People remember what they can live with more often than how they lived.

Better to have loved and lost a short person than never to have loved a tall.

I have brought you to the treasure house of the world. If you leave without it you may henceforth blame nobody but yourself.

Upon the exposure of his bribery, it is reported he said, "I should have paid more.

Even now when at the end, with nothing left to lose, I cannot identify what I could never choose.

Is she dead?" "No." "A pity.

Non, je n'ai rien caché. Après toi, il n'y a eu personne. J'aurais pu, mais je n'ai jamais pu.

Run?, ka pirms n?ves cilv?ka acu priekš? aizsl?d visi vi?a dz?ves skaist?kie mirk?i. Tikpat labi var gad?ties,ka visi pag?tnes neveiksmju un izmisuma mirk?i atgriežas apzi?? tieši tad, kad cilv?kam ac?s, atkl?jot savu satraucoš?ko smaidu, beidzot ieskat?s laime.

El corazón, pese a estar siempre lleno de vacilaciones y de incertidumbres, te impulsa a hacer algo, a actuar, para que nunca puedas lamentar no haberlo intentado todo