Quotes About Regret

Take them back, Ed. Here they are. Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

Descubrí el reverso de la servilleta demasiado tarde, no cuando llegué a casa, ni cuando la guardé en la caja, sino cuando tenía el corazón destrozado y lloroso, cuando ya no era cierto.

And I almost said I love you. Instead I said nothing and you said nothing.

We thought we had time.

He told her then how sorry he was for last night, but not out loud.

What does it mean? Where does something like this come from? How can you find it again,just what you wanted at just the right time? Never,probably. It's empty and nothing now, I don't even know why I kept it, and I'll keep it no more.

It's why we broke up, Ed, a small thing that's disappeared or maybe was never really in my hands in the first place.

Te devuelvo la sonrisa y aquella noche, te lo devuelvo todo. Ojalá pudiera.

Foi por isso que a gente acabou, Ed, por uma coisinha pequena que sumiu ou quem sabe nunca tenha estado de verdade nas minhas mãos

But I want it anyway, Ed. I want what can't possibly happen, and that is why we broke up.

Ahora solo queda este mal vestigio del nuestro que te recuerdo con tinta cada vez más descolorida. Es como si nunca hubiéramos tenido nada.

Even with the right boy I'd wreck it," I said. "I'd join the navy on impulse and sail off right when he needed me, or we'd have a baby and I'd accidentally put it in my purse. The right boys I always toss and the wrong ones I keep on top of me like paperweights. I know they're the wrong boys and I just go to them.

It's one thing to forgive yourself a mistake. But if you knew it was a mistake at the time, how do you forgive yourself then?

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

A person who has not made peace with his losses is likely to accept gambles that would be unacceptable to him otherwise.

I put Algernon's body in a cheese box and buried him in the backyard. I cried.

The last time we were here," I said, "I told you I liked you. I should have trusted myself to say I love you.

Unlike Charlie, I was incapable of making friends or thinking about other people and their problems. I was interested in myself, and myself only. Fr one long moment in that mirror I had seen myself through Charlie's eyes - looked down at myself and saw what I had really become. And I was ashamed.

She had agreed to go away when i tell her to go. It's painful to think about that, but what we have, I suspect, is more than most people find in a lifetime.

Sinto medo. Não da vida ou da morte ou do nada, mas de desperdiçá-la, como se eu nunca tivesse existido.

I wish this memory were a photograph so that I could tear it up and throw it back into her face.

Agora, cada vez que nos vemos, depois que deixo você, vou para casa com um sentimento miserável de que sou lenta e estúpida sobre tudo. Repenso coisas que disse e arranjo respostas brilhantes e espirituosas que deveria ter dito e tenho vontade de me chutar porque não as mencionei quando estávamos juntos.

Seeing Charlie huddled beneath the covers I wish I could give him comfort, explain to him that he has done nothing wrong, that it is beyond him to change his mother's attitude back to what it was before his sister came. There on the bed, Charlie did not understand what they were saying, but now it hurts. If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me.

Holy smoke I reely pulled a Charlie Gordon that time.