Quotes About Regret

Teaching remains a heroic act to me, and teachers live a necessary and all-important life. We are killing their spirit with unnecessary pressure and expectations that seem forced and destructive to me. Long ago I was one of them. I still regret I was forced to leave them. My entire body of work is because of men and women like them. –

He knew he should not have spared time for tears, and would not, ever again.

There is no loneliness like that of a failed marriage. – Alexander Theroux

There's no such things as coulda, shoulda, woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

Sorry, he said penitently. It's a book. I have no common sense around them.

I need you to forgive me. And then perhaps I can begin to forgive myself. There is no one but you who can do that either.

Morgan, he whispered, I wish you had not been someone I loved so.

Sybel, you went from me like a dream, so silently, so irrevocably—I could not bear it, I could not bear it—

In the middle of the block, she opened the door of a coffee shop, but they were playing one of the songs she had heard with Carol everywhere, and she let the door close and walked on. The music lived, but the world was dead. And the song would die one day, she thought, but how would the world come back to life? How would its salt come back?

Tom envied him with a heartbreaking surge of envy and self-pity.

Don't you want to forget it, if it's past? I don't know. I don't know just how you mean that. I mean, are you sorry? No. Would I do the same thing again? Yes. Do you mean with somebody else, or with her? With her, Therese said.

and wished with all her power to wish anything, that the woman would simply continue her last words and say, "Are you really so glad to have met me? Then why can't we see each other again? Why can't we even have lunch together today?" Her voice was so casual, and she might have said it so easily.

The tragedy was not even the first drink, because the first drink was not the first resort but the last. There'd had to be first the failure of everything else—of her and Sam, of his friends, of his hope, of his interests, really.

Finally, Carol said in a tone of hopelessness, 'Darling, can I ask you to forgive me?' The tone hurt Therese more than the question. 'I love you, Carol.

In the middle of the block, she opened the door of a coffee shop, but they were playing one of the songs she had heard with Carol everywhere, and she let the door close and walked on. The music lived, but the world was dead. And the song would die one day, she thought, but how would the world come back to life? How would its salt come back? The Price of Salt [Carol is the film based on this title.]

Ayer, se dijo, o se dejó entender, que el camino que he escogido me llevaría a hundirme en las profundidades del vicio y la degeneración humanas. Sí, me he hundido bastante desde que me apartaron de ti

My mistake was in speaking to him. My mistake was in telling a stranger my private business.

If he could fully believe in the pearly gates of the priests or the spirits of his father, he might welcome death, but all Cade could think of was Lily. It was odd that he had spent twenty years of his life simply surviving, only to spend his dying minutes dreaming of a woman who hated him. Closing his eyes, Cade felt the warmth of her body close to his. She didn't hate him completely. Her body was too warm and alive to his touch to hate him entirely. Had there been time... Damn

Only at dawn should a man awake from excess - at dawn agleam with red and sorrowful resolve.

And didst thou imbibe mighty potions from the fruit of the grape (...)? And hast thou one Ache, this morning (...) appertaining unto Head, and much repentance in thy Soul forsooth?

He had been fooled. He had not, after all, had a great time: he had merely been drinking again.

How strange it is our little perception of life. The child says 'when I am a big boy.. The big boy says When I grow up And grown up he says When I am married The thought then changes to When im able to retire. Then when retirement comes, he looks back over the landscape traversed, a cold wind seems to sweep over it. Somehow he has missed it all and it is gone, Life, we learn too long is in the living.

Passarei por este caminho apenas uma vez. Por isso, se existe qualquer bem ou qualquer gesto de bondade que eu possa fazer em benefício de qualquer ser humano, que eu faça agora. Que eu não adie ou deixe de lado, pois não passarei aqui novamente.

I often think if I had known these things sooner, how different my business would be today.