Quotes About Regret

I get up and pace the room, as if I can leave my guilt behind me. But it tracks me as I walk, an ugly shadow made by myself.

Empathy--the ability to identify with someone else's suffering--is certainly a prerequisite for a genuine apology.

If you let life pass you by now, it won't ever come back. You don't get another chance.

Suddenly she felt guilty for not working harder to forgive him and repair the damage, but he hadn't either. They had been two lost people, treading water for seven years, after the ship went down. Excerpt From: Steel, Danielle. Country. Delacorte Press, 2015-06-16. iBooks. This material may be protected by copyright.

when I'm sad over what I lost, I often find that things look better in the rearview mirror than they really were

La jeunesse est la période la plus fabuleuse d'une vie. Ne la gaspillez pas en regrettant les endroits et les gens que vous avez perdus. Allez de l'avant... Nous regardons tous vers le passé. Le secret consiste à ne pas se retourner trop souvent. Laissez les mauvais moments derrière vous.

You said you like to write. . . . All you need are some couplets and a refrain. You just tell a story with words, about who screwed over whom, who broke whose heart, and how long they've been crying ever since. You know, just like real life.

I'm sorry, Mother," she said quietly. "I didn't realize you cared about him that much." She suddenly understood what she had done and what it had cost her mother. She felt guilty for the first time.

he had stayed, he and his children would be long dead

what would have happened if he had come back

there. I think he must have come to hate

criminal. It was

Take the stupidest thing you've ever done. At least it's done. It's over. It's gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it's harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn't happened; something we don't know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we'd taken the plunge, if only we'd held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we'd said yes.

What a terrible thing, I thought, to let a moment go.

His nervous eyes watched me above his words, apologizing for the ways the excuses weren't right even as he couldn't stop presenting them.

I sucked blood from one of my best friends

If I'd known how wrong I was - if I'd had any idea of the awful night that lay ahead - I'd have run after him and never returned to that disgusting circus of blood, that revolting circus of death.

No, thats not how it happened... Mr crepsley dropped. He was impaled on the stakes. He died. And it was awful... His cries as he writhed there, bleeding and dying, burning and screaming, will stay with me till I die. Maybe I'll even carry them with me after I go.

please Lady... Do not speak of it. I was young and foolish. You most certainly were. You are cruel, Evanna.

but you were a fool to bring that pider into this house

It was an age of tragic mistakes.

I hope we meet again, said Ramman. I do too, Tel Hesani said, then added underneath his breath, Although I fear it won't be in this world.

When Larten heard that Alicia had married, he felt both jealousy and delight. A selfish part of him had hoped she'd mourn for him the rest of her life. But mostly he was happy that she'd found someone who could give her all that he had failed to provide.

I don't suppose you kept anything of hers, did you? Such as? A lock of hair, a knife which was dear to her, a scrap of her clothes? Vampires do not indulge in such foolishness, he said gruffly. They should, Evanna sighed.