Quotes About Regret

We lose weeks like buttons, like pencils." ? A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

We thought we young and that there would be time to love well sometime in the future. This is a terrible way to think. It is no way to live, to wait to love.

Rule #9: You're unlikely to regret much of what you don't say.

shame about being. "We say, I am ashamed of myself. I am guilty for something.

and wind whispered in the porch. Didn't I tell my father I would kill him? And should I? I searched the house. I heard a noise and went into

There's nowt to know. A miserable caulker. But you, you're different, and you'll be grown and gone afore I know." He stared from the window. Sleet splashed down onto the pebbledash outside. "And this is hardly a place that'll draw you back," he said.

That was your past, Michelle. You can't live in the past. Sure you can, Sean. If you're not too thrilled with your future.

What's a quick fling in the sack compared to decades of indifference?

I came here to help you, Puller. I know our last meeting was not a positive one. But your offer . . . it meant a lot to me. And you don't know how close I came to accepting it. And not a day goes by that I don't regret not going with you.

After a few moments of silence Puller said, "You think he was achieving all of it for his father? Because he never got the chance to do it himself?" Rooney pointed at him. "That's what I believe.

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She bit her lip, a movement he didn't see because he was getting out of the car. He poked his head back in. "Have a good life, Kate. You ever need anything

he had fired the shot that had killed one male adult and one female child. With

He would have been forty-two years old in two months. His forty-first had been his very last birthday, as it turned out.

I think I saw you in an ice-cream parlour drinking milk shakes cold and long Smiling and waving and looking so fine don't think you knew you were in this song. - Five Years

I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.

End-stage addiction is mostly about waiting for the police, or someone, to come and bury you in your shame.

Self-Blame. You blame yourself for something you weren't entirely responsible for, or you beat up on yourself because of some mistake you made.

His outburst that morning had been directed almost more at himself than at Aunt Pol. He had called her a monster, but it was the monster within himself he hated. The dreadful catalogue of what she had suffered over uncounted years for him and the passion with which she had spoken – evidence of the pain his words had caused her – twisted searingly in his mind. He was ashamed, so ashamed that he could not even bear to look into the faces of his friends.

It's not good to leave things of value behind. They nag at the mind and dis-tract one from the business at hand.

Even the greatest of heroes and men Are less than what they might have been. —a saying of Mystarria

The greatest regret of my military career was as Commanding General of the 1st Cavalry Division in Iraq in 2004-2005, he later wrote of the decision he made. I lost 169 soldiers during that year-long deployment. However, the monument we erected at Fort Hood, Texas, in memoriam lists 168 names. I approved the request of others not to include the name of the one soldier who committed suicide. I deeply regret my decision.

I'm just afraid of having a tombstone that says HERE LIES A PROMISING OLD MAN.