Quotes About Regret

What you have stolen can never be yours.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said. I don't want to be this way, but I have been since you left.

I saw you yesterday and felt a funeral inside. Like someone I love died, and they asked if I wanted to see the body.

You weren't there.

Fuck Myself, and I am dirty dick sucker

The cruellest thing you can do to Kerouac is reread him at thirty-eight.

My pleasures disappeared with my vices.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it, and that a very severe one.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

I no longer complain about taking too much cream. I have made so many errors that unless I forgive myself and forget I will be in a helpless purple situation of self recrimination. The scorpio tail comes round to sting.

Sharp knives seemed to cut her delicate feet, yet she hardly felt them, so deep was the pain in her heart. She could not forget that this was the last night she would ever see the one for whom she had left her home and family, had given up her beautiful voice, and had day by day endured unending torment, of which he knew nothing at all. An eternal night awaited her.

I know what you want. It is very stupid of you, but you shall have your way, and it will bring you to sorrow, my pretty princess. - The sea witch.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

I am utterly alone with myself, I see clearly that from now on I shall always be utterly alone with myself. I am somewhere where neither love nor friendship can reach, I am in hell … I have sinned for a brief while and I am being punished for it, incredibly severely, for a long time! But one should have known, before one sinned, how severe the punishment would be. One should have been warned beforehand, then one would not have sinned …

oh, how beautiful life is! Intoxication, forget-fulness, to float along on the stream of forgetfulness, into the twilight, deep into the darkness where there is neither failure nor regret … good alcohol, I salute you.

Man naar ogsaa at dø engang, og det er Synd, hvis man saa har forsømt at leve.

'Caught' is a novel of forgiveness, and the past and the present - who should be and who shouldn't be forgiven. None of my books are ever just about thrills, or it won't work.

Hope is cruel. Hope reminds me of what almost was. Hope makes the physical ache return.

When your energy is tied up in worrying and regretting, you give up your vitality and the power to make your dreams come true. Life will always have its share of difficulties, in the midst of which you can choose to be satisfied, loving and healthy.

JERRY: I was best man at your wedding. I saw you in white. I watched you glide by in white. EMMA: I wasn't in white. JERRY: You know what should have happened? EMMA: What? JERRY: I should have had you, in your white, before the wedding. I should have blackened you, in your white wedding dress, blackened you in your bridal dress, before ushering you into your wedding, as your best man.

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

Many years ago a very wise man named Bernard Baruch took me aside and put his arm around my shoulder. "Harpo my boy," he said, "I'm going to give you three pieces of advice, three things you should always remember." My heart jumped and I glowed with expectation. I was going to hear the magic password to a rich, full life from the master himself. "Yes sir?" I said. And he told me the three things. I regret that I've forgotten what they were.

Marie was one of those unfortunately constituted mortals, in whose eyes whatever is lost and gone assumes a value which it never had in possession.