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Quotes About Regret

If you can forgive me, forgive me,' said her eyes, 'I am so happy.' 'I hate them all, and you, and myself,' his eyes responded.
~ Leo Tolstoy
She felt for him with her whole heart, the more because she was pitying him for suffering from the pain she had caused.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Loose an hour and you cannot catch up in a year.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Rakes, those male Magdalenes, have a secret feeling of innocence similar to that which female Magdalenes have, based on the same hope of forgiveness. 'All will be forgiven her, for she loved much; and all will be forgiven him, for he enjoyed much.
~ Leo Tolstoy
How often we sin, how much we deceive, and all for what? I am near sixty, dear friend . . . I too . . . All will end in death, all! Death is awful . .
~ Leo Tolstoy
Only when Prince Andrei was gone did Rostov think of what he ought to have said. And he was still more angry at having omitted to say it. He
~ Leo Tolstoy
And what will be there, and what has there been here? Why was I so reluctant to part with life? There was something in this life I did not and do not understand.
~ Leo Tolstoy
For a long time afterwards, in prison, when moral change took place in me, I thought of that moment, recalled what I could of it, and considered it. I remembered for an instant, before the action I had a terrible consciousness I was killing a defenseless woman, my wife!
~ Leo Tolstoy
Ah, how good! How nice!" he said to himself, when he remembered that his wife and the French were no more.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Con la muerte todo quedará salvado: el oprobio y la deshonra de Alexiéi Alexándrovich y de Seriozha y mi terrible vergüenza. Si muero se arrepentirá, lo sentirá, me amará y sufrirá»
~ Leo Tolstoy
Kitty looked into his face which was so near her own, and long after—for years after—that look so full of love which she then gave him, and which met with no response from him, cut her to the heart with tormenting shame.
~ Leo Tolstoy
does it ever happen to you to feel as if there were nothing more to come—nothing; that everything good is past? And to feel not exactly dull, but sad?
~ Leo Tolstoy
I did not expect this of you,' said the staff-captain seriously and severely. 'You don't wish to apologize, young sir, but it's not only to him but to the whole regiment—all of us—you're to blame all around. The
~ Leo Tolstoy
Compassion, love of our brothers, for those who love us and for those who hate us, love of our enemies; yes, that love which God preached on earth and which Princess Mary taught me and I did not understand—that is what made me sorry to part with life, that is what remained for me had I lived. But now it is too late. I know it!
~ Leo Tolstoy
She said to herself: "No, just now I can't think of it, later on, when I am calmer." But this calm for thought never came; every time the thought rose of what she had done and what would happen to her, and what she ought to do, a horror came over her and she drove those thoughts away. "Later, later," she said—"when I am calmer.
~ Leo Tolstoy
Prince Andrew could no longer restrain himself and wept tender loving tears for his fellow men, for himself, and for his own and their errors.
~ Leo Tolstoy
He aqui como acabo mi vida. Nos moriremos y no quedara nada de nosotros. Por que tenemos que pecar, pues?
~ Leo Tolstoy
We sin so much, we deceive so much, and all for what? I'm over fifty, my friend … I'll … Everything ends in death, everything. Death is terrible." He
~ Leo Tolstoy
If I'd known I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.
~ Leon Eldred
And you treated my woman to a flake of your life/ And when she came back she was nobody's wife.
~ Leonard Cohen
Well I see you there with the rose in your teeth One more thin gypsy thief Yes, and thanks, for the trouble you took from her eyes I thought it was there for good so I never tried. And Jane came by with a lock of your hair She said that you gave it to her That night that you planned to go clear
~ Leonard Cohen
My animal howls My angel's upset But I'm not allowed A trace of regret
~ Leonard Cohen
How sweet time feels when it's too late
~ Leonard Cohen
I never think about The Past but sometimes The Past thinks about me and sits down ever so lightly on my face—
~ Leonard Cohen