Quotes About Regret

You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

People die because they want who they want. They do all kinds of crazy, stupid, sweet, tender, amazing, self-destructive things. You aren't going to make anyone "see the light and realize that what they're doing is wrong." You just aren't.

I don't think there's a single dumbass thing I've done in my adult life that I didn't know was a dumbass thing to do while I was doing it. Even when I justified it to myself—as I did every damn time—the truest part of me knew I was doing the wrong thing. Always.

I wasn't with my mom when she died. No one was. She died alone in a hospital room, and for so many years it felt like three-quarters of my insides were frozen solid because of that.

I still can't entirely explain why I needed to leave my ex. I was tortured by this very question for years because I felt like such an ass for breaking his heart and I was so shattered I'd broken my own. I was too young to commit myself to one person. We weren't as compatible as we initially seemed.

She couldn't help but think that she'd ruined his life. It didn't yet occur to her to wonder about having ruined her own.

Every step that I take is another mistake to you.

What a guy, what a fool am I, to think my breaking heart could kid the moon

Developing APIs is the process of building future regret. Even if it looks good now, you would probably do it differently in a few years given changing requirements and future developments. But you do the best you can and move on, because shipping anything is better than not shipping perfection.

He refused to think about how at the age of forty-eight he could conclude, without any satisfaction at all, that he'd been right his entire life for being a bitterly cynical bastard.

Later, Jim thought of the bus the same way he thought of a Harlem whore. Everything is so easy until you step into that dark hallway, and bang.

Life may not offer you the same chance twice.

There are times in life you wish dinosaurs weren't extinct and could be whistled to come and gulp you down.

When you screw someone's life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.

You treated her so badly,' Saurabh said.

Jenn: Do you love him? Ani: Yeah, I do. Jenn: Then you can forgive him. It's not worth it to let love slip through your hands.

It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

My prime of youth is but a frost of cares;My feast of joy is but a dish of pain;My crop of corn is but a field of tares;And all my good is but vain hope of gain:The day is past, and yet I saw no sun;And now I live, and now my life is done.

It makes my heart sick when I remember all the good words and the broken promises.

There is no greater adventure than a magical journey through last night's drunk texts.

I just wish my mouth had a backspace key.

I don't always eat chips and salsa but when I do, I do it until I hate myself.

And why should I rekindle these smoking embers? Why call up from their casements the ghosts of the dead?

Words of snow, which fell last year.