Quotes About Regret

My heart lost rhythm at the flicker of phantom in the whiskey-stained voice.

Only a fool trips on what is behind them.

I had been bigger sucker than a square mark. All he loses is scratch. I had joined a club that suckered me behind bars fives times.

older cats, hustlers down at the pool hall. They'd say, "Don't be like me, youngblood." Even they knew they were doing wrong! They warn you, but you're too intrigued with their jewelry, their Cadillacs, and the fly women getting into their cars. The game sucks you in. The sexiness and swagger of

In October 2000, I finally received my hardship transfer to Donovan State Prison in San Diego. But it was too late for me to see my father. His cancer had progressed and there was no way he could make the 120-mile trip from

L.A. to San Diego. My dad died on September 25, 2002, without us ever getting a chance to see each other face-to-face again.

May 1992, I made that bad decision to involve a group of people who wanted to use guns, because that was their method of robbery." I told the commissioners, "That was the manner of person I was back then. Today, twenty-one years later, that's not the same person you see sitting before you.

Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. Ali, the Lion of Islam.

A stolen kiss is not easily returned.

Tres cosas Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. (Alí el León, Califa del Islam, yerno del profeta Mahoma)

Un beso robado no se devuelve fácilmente.

Tres cosas no pueden recuperarse: La flecha una vez que ha partido del arco La palabra dicha precipitadamente La oportunidad perdida. Ali, el León del Islam.

Three Things Three things cannot be retrieved: The arrow once sped from the bow The word spoken in haste The missed opportunity. (Ali the Lion, Caliph of Islam, son-in-law of Mohammed the Prophet)

Entregamos nuestra vida a las cosas y luego nos sorprendemos de haberla perdido

They used to say it was bad for Indians to drink, but it's bad for anybody. When they drink they lose their cool, a lot of us. Like when we played with Sonny Boy, I would never get paid, you know. He would drink up all the money.

here I am simply trying to get into your head you think you were born you die what a pity

father when I was a boy you left us now I forgive you

The dead man looked disconsolate. Reasonably so, in the circumstances, Charlie thought.

Yes. I was, I see now, an asshole who wanted to roll the dice.

A lot of people enjoy being dead. But they're not dead, really. They're just backing away from life. They're players, but they think life is a practice game and they'll save themselves for later. So they sit on the bench, and the only championship they'll ever see goes on before them. The clock ticks away the quarters. At any moment they can join in.

I keep saying that I had everything, but all I had was endless tomorrows.

I died last night. Seventy years too young.

If we were brought to trial for the crimes we have committed against ourselves, few would escape the gallows.

The happy have whole days, and those they choose. The unhappy have but hours, and those they lose.