Quotes About Regret

But what's the point? he thinks. She would die and leave me. Or I would die and leave her. It's not worth it. Nobody's worth it.

She asked me once. I failed her. If she asked me again, I would fail her again.

Far away can be too far away, when the wrong people are left behind.

You're only young once, they say, but doesn't it go on for a long time? More years than you can bear." From the book An Experiment in Love.

Nor did the word closure that a few of the mourners said they hoped to achieve. Edward believed that they thought of it as a door closing softly on their grief, but he was afraid it might shut out more than they'd bargained for, memories of love and pleasure as well as of loss.

Had the war really ended thirty years ago? If it had, what had Shimada and Kozuka died for? If what was happening was true, wouldn't it have been better if I had died with them?

The beach at Gontin was unlucky for Shimada. On May 7, 1954, he was killed at a spot only about half a mile from the place where he had been wounded in the leg.

I will stay by your side, my friend. Know that I am here, and that I am sorry. I am sorry that... I failed you. After waiting 600 years I made a beginner's mistake. I underestimated my enemy.

È un errore che non dimenticherò. Tutto il male nasce dalla debolezza. E io negavo la mia debolezza ferendo coloro che mi si paravano davanti. Ma sono cambiato quand'ho incontrato quel tipo… Per questo sono stato trafitto. Volevo purificarmi. Non m'interessa se vivo o muoio, ma se l'anima di suo fratello può essere salvata… E se posso lavare la mia colpa…

Come back here the day before yesterday, you noodle-legged weasel!

How readily and thinly we procure these fictional selves, deceiving the world and what we might have become if only we hadn't got in the way, if only we had waited to see what might have become of us.

Det fattades bara, det fattades bara att jag skulle gå genom livet utan att nånsin ha varit din.

Han hade en gång förlorat "sitt första hjärta", som det heter.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

There's always something left to lose.

Sweet Jude, you're my dearest punishment

I wasn't kind, Jude. Not to many people. Not to you. I wasn't sure if I wanted you or if I wanted you gone from my sight so that I would stop feeling as I did, which made me even more unkind. But when you were gone—truly gone beneath the waves—I hated myself as I never have before.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

I get why he chose her. I just wish she had chosen me.

I haven't had a very good day. I think I might still be hung over and everyone's dead and my root beer's gone.

And yet, I don't regret it now. Having stepped off the edge, what I want to do is fall.

It turns out that having kissed someone, the possibility of kissing hangs over everything, no matter how terrible an idea it was the first time.

I hope Cardan misses me.

In the mortal world, when I thought you were my enemy, I still missed you.