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Quotes About Regret

May 25—So this is how a person can come to despise himself—knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
~ Daniel Keyes
If I could reach out into the past of my memories, I would make her see how much she was hurting me.
~ Daniel Keyes
Então é assim que uma pessoa chega a se desprezar: sabendo que está fazendo a coisa errada sem conseguir parar
~ Daniel Keyes
A fost r?u c? Adam È™i Eva au mâncat din pomul cunoaÈ™terii. A fost r?u când au v?zut c? sunt goi È™i când au înv??at ce sunt poftele È™i ruÈ™inea. ?i au fost goniÈ›i din Paradis È™i s-au închis porÈ›ile dup? ei. Dac? nu s-ar fi întâmplat asta, nimeni n-ar mai trebui s? îmb?trânesc?, s? se îmboln?veasc? È™i s? moar?.
~ Daniel Keyes
So this is how a person can come to despise himself - knowing he's doing the wrong thing and not being able to stop.
~ Daniel Keyes
So I looked. Silly as it sounds now, I looked. By comparison, going after the Grail would have made more sense. I won't talk about it, it's too embarrassing. I looked until I wised up. I stopped making a fool of myself, but something died inside of me - something that I'd always sort of liked and admired. In its place grew a scar - a tough spot but also a sore spot.
~ Daniel Quinn
The old man had been tanned by the light of too many beer signs, and it just goes to show that you can't live on three packs of Chesterfields and a fifth of bourbon a day without starting to drift far too fuckin' wide in the turns.
~ Daniel Woodrell
Fear regret more than failure.
~ Taryn Rose
Don't be fear of 'Failures' you made, be afraid of 'Chances' you may not get again to make it up!
~ Utkarsh Nayan Gupta
"King David was shaken. He went up to the room over the gateway and wept. As he went, he said: 'O my son Absalom! If only I had died instead of you – O Absalom: my son, my son!'"
~ 2 Samuel 18: 33
"Just when I think you couldn't possibly be any dumber, you go and do somethin' like this — and totally redeem yourself! Ha Ha!"
~ Dumb & Dumber (1994)
Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is.
~ Mary Anne Roadacher-Hershey
The prime of your life does not come twice.
~ Japanese Proverb
Drunken life, dreamy death.
~ Japanese Proverb
You only know you love her when you let her go.
~ Passenger
A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams.
~ John Barrymore
The tragedy of life is not death but what we let die inside of us while we live.
~ Norman Cousins
Falling in love is terrible. It makes you act foolish, like an idiot.
~ Lemmy
And he'd hated himself, and hated her, too, for the ruin they'd made of each other.
~ Dennis Lehane
Better to have lost and loved than never to have loved at all.
~ Ernest Hemingway
It is discouraging to leave the past behind only to see it coming toward you like the thunderstorm which drenched you yesterday.
~ William H. Gass
There are so many people to fall in love with but I chose to fall for you. That was the biggest mistake of my life, but I know that like all difficult things come to an end, even this will and you will return back someday.
~ Ava Benson
Someday you will realize that you defaced something that was so beautiful. You ignored someone who really cared and hurt a heart that really loved you.
~ Kline Mali
I cannot eat, I cannot drink; the pleasures of youth and love are fled away: there was a good time once, but now that is gone, and life is no longer life.
~ Plato