Quotes About Regret

Sleep is good, death is better; but of course, the best thing would to have never been born at all.

Some things, if you don't do them, they follow you all your life, whispering in your ear," says Granny Carne. She faces me sternly as if she's judging me. "You'll find a dozen good reasons why you pulled back from the Call, and you'll even fool yourself that you had no other choice. But in your bed at night you'll curse yourself for a coward.

I think there is in friendship, an instant recognition – a kind of loving. It needs just a word, in passing, the touch of a hand – yet parting is loss and the tiny ache of regret stays with us always.

What about your past? How often would you travel there, given the chance? Often? Never? And when you got there, would you think about staying forever?

You can't undo actions with words.

It is not as though she's greedy for happiness, but she wishes that she'd been able to recognize it completely when she had it.

I wish we had not followed him! Let us run away.

The hawk was a fire that burned my hurts away. There could be no regret or mourning in her. No past or future. She lived in the present only, and that was my refuge. My flight from death was on her barred and beating wings. But I had forgotten that the puzzle that was death was caught up in the hawk, and I was caught up in it too.

Honoring delicacy over full disclosure only comes back to haunt you in the end.

I have loved a fool who counted kisses, she thought.

The whole thing was so intense, so full of hurt that when I look back at it I squint. I want it forgotten.

and she felt sorry for the old black Singer sewing machine, which seemed never to have had any fun.

I miss her. So much that sometimes I'm scared I'll bring her back.

Dad and Lily would never have this, they would never be old together and think inside each other's clockwork.

While waiting for her to phone me at school I'd feel seconds bursting inside me and leaving clouds. That won't come again—it can't. I'll never have that with anyone else. I'll never even come close.

And like Lot's wife, I am frozen. I have turned into a pillar of salt forever, and I shall forever go on looking, seeing my own land slip softly, slowly away from me.

It was first love and it was painful. But it also had no future whatsoever.

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I was sad that Corpse Bride was so short. I would've liked to have had her around for way longer. She doesn't actually have that many scenes.

i go through life watching the english language being raped before me face, like miniver cheevy, i was born too late. and like miniver cheevy i cough and call it fate and go on drinking.

purely hated myself because I hadn't bothered to ask his name. People oughtn't to breeze into your life and out again in ten seconds, without leaving even a name behind. As Mr. Dickens once pointed out, we're all on our way to the grave together.

Hoy te vuelvo a ver, madre, después de veintisiete años, y me pregunto si durante todo este tiempo has sido consciente de cuánto daño has hecho a tus hijos. (…) Es difícil decirlo: no siento nada. Al fin y al cabo, eres mi madre. Pero es imposible que sienta amor. No puedo amarte, madre

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

I keep remembering — I keep remembering. My heart has no pity on me.