regrets

Link	Quote	Tags	Author
64e4101	If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?	sincerity regrets	José Saramago
d9626db	I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.	moving-on living regrets	Ned Vizzini
4d43611	Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.	regrets	Salman Rushdie
2359afd	People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.	life fragile effort sincerity regrets	Haruki Murakami
e89aef0	Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.	life possibility what-if regrets	Nicholas Sparks
270e514	regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.	poem poetry death life love truth regret regrets	Charles Bukowski
8dcb6e0	In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.	memories long-term regrets	Bill Watterson
476bbb1	In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.	regrets	Lisa See
2090c65	While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.	opal regrets	Jennifer L. Armentrout
3e60fa3	"You aren't old enough to have such regrets." "Pain doesn't respect age, my lady."	pain regrets	Sherrilyn Kenyon
62841d4	I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.	homosexuality-masculinity regrets	Kathryn Stockett
19baf57	I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.	life-lessons unfairness regrets	Rodman Philbrick
84ef879	There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.	grief futility depression hope dark-history falling-short haunted-past smoke-in-the-eyes why-the-world-needs-jesus unrest pointlessness bittersweet-memories sins heartache vanity disappointment expectations despair regrets nostalgia	Joseph Conrad
040e998	If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.	perseverance motivational winner-stands-alone paulo-coelho regrets	Paulo Coelho
8d4b84b	"Empty night, Harry. Didn't your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?" I scowled some more. "Like what?" "Like life is short," he [Thomas] said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said."	regrets	Jim Butcher
363d818	What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.	mourning life regrets	John Steinbeck
bebcd58	"Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn."	regrets	Juliet Marillier
706feee	I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.	confusion roads regrets	H.P. Lovecraft
7370a8d	Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.	regrets	Lori Lansens
c8fc913	I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.	regrets	Mitch Albom
826ef50	Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.	forget regrets memory	David Baldacci
f160a0c	Better safe than sorry!	regrets	Jodi Picoult
abdddea	"You have to live each hour as if it's your last," she said, "and each day as if you were immortal. When my father grew ill, he had so many regrets. There were so many things he wished he'd done, he told me. He'd always assumed he had more time. That's something I've always carried with me. Why on earth do you think I decided to attempt the flute at such an advanced age? Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that's not the point, really. I don't need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried."	trying life regrets	Julia Quinn
96ec6c6	No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....	wisdom mistakes regrets	Richard Russo
8901a97	Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.	lovers dreams love dalliances foibles romances regrets memory	Iris Murdoch
96278da	--but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.	young-adult depression regrets mental-health	Ned Vizzini
19a29be	It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.	regret regrets	Sang-Sun Park
07002ee	"L'Horloge Horloge! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible, Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit: "Souviens-toi! Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d'effroi Se planteront bientot comme dans une cible; Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l'horizon Ainsi qu'une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ; Chaque instant te devore un morceau du delice A chaque homme accorde pour toute sa saison. Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la Seconde Chuchote: Souviens-toi! - Rapide, avec sa voix D'insecte, Maintenant dit: Je suis Autrefois, Et j'ai pompe ta vie avec ma trompe immonde! Remember! Souviens-toi, prodigue! Esto memor! (Mon gosier de metal parle toutes les langues.) Les minutes, mortel folatre, sont des gangues Qu'il ne faut pas lacher sans en extraire l'or! Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide Qui gagne sans tricher, a tout coup! c'est la loi. Le jour decroit; la nuit augmente; souviens-toi! Le gouffre a toujours soif; la clepsydre se vide. Tantot sonnera l'heure ou le divin Hasard, Ou l'auguste Vertu, ton epouse encor vierge, Ou le repentir meme (oh! la derniere auberge!), Ou tout te dira: Meurs, vieux lache! il est trop tard!"	time regrets	Charles Baudelaire

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

José Saramago

d9626db

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

moving-on living regrets

Ned Vizzini

4d43611

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

regrets

Salman Rushdie

2359afd

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.

life fragile effort sincerity regrets

Haruki Murakami

e89aef0

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.

life possibility what-if regrets

Nicholas Sparks

270e514

regret is mostly caused by not having done anything.

poem poetry death life love truth regret regrets

Charles Bukowski

8dcb6e0

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.

memories long-term regrets

Bill Watterson

476bbb1

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

regrets

Lisa See

2090c65

While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.

opal regrets

Jennifer L. Armentrout

3e60fa3

"You aren't old enough to have such regrets." "Pain doesn't respect age, my lady."

pain regrets

Sherrilyn Kenyon

62841d4

I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.

homosexuality-masculinity regrets

Kathryn Stockett

19baf57

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.

life-lessons unfairness regrets

Rodman Philbrick

84ef879

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportunities, the pleasures! But the fact remains that you must touch your reward with clean hands, lest it turn to dead leaves, to thorns, in your grasp.

grief futility depression hope dark-history falling-short haunted-past smoke-in-the-eyes why-the-world-needs-jesus unrest pointlessness bittersweet-memories sins heartache vanity disappointment expectations despair regrets nostalgia

Joseph Conrad

040e998

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his decision is wrong, he will be defeated and he will have to start all over again- only this time with more wisdom. But once he has started, a warrior of the light perseveres until the end.

perseverance motivational winner-stands-alone paulo-coelho regrets

Paulo Coelho

8d4b84b

"Empty night, Harry. Didn't your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?" I scowled some more. "Like what?" "Like life is short," he [Thomas] said. "Like you don't know when it's going to end. Like some things, left unsaid, can't ever be said."

regrets

Jim Butcher

363d818

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

mourning life regrets

John Steinbeck

bebcd58

"Look forward, not back," the Hag said. "All is change. Do not regret. Instead, learn."

regrets

Juliet Marillier

706feee

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.

confusion roads regrets

H.P. Lovecraft

7370a8d

Regrets serve their purpose. You'll see.

regrets

Lori Lansens

c8fc913

I was so ashamed. It made me hard on you, when I was trying to be hard on me. We are blinded by our regrets, Annie. We don't realize who else we punish while we're punishing ourselves.

regrets

Mitch Albom

826ef50

Dark, cool, musty, smoky, where light fell funny and everyone looked like someone you knew or wanted to know. Or, more likely, wanted to forget.

forget regrets memory

David Baldacci

f160a0c

Better safe than sorry!

regrets

Jodi Picoult

abdddea

"You have to live each hour as if it's your last," she said, "and each day as if you were immortal. When my father grew ill, he had so many regrets. There were so many things he wished he'd done, he told me. He'd always assumed he had more time. That's something I've always carried with me. Why on earth do you think I decided to attempt the flute at such an advanced age? Everyone told me I was too old, that to be truly good at it I had to have started as a child. But that's not the point, really. I don't need to be truly good. I just need to enjoy it for myself. And I need to know I tried."

trying life regrets

Julia Quinn

96ec6c6

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older. As if, given a second chance to live their lives, they'd be smarter. Sully didn't know too many people who got noticeably smarter over the course of a lifetime. Some made fewer mistakes, but in Sully's opinion that was because they couldn't go quite so fast. They had less energy, no more virtue; fewer opportunities to screw up, not more wisdom. It was Sully's policy to stick by his mistakes....

wisdom mistakes regrets

Richard Russo

8901a97

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

lovers dreams love dalliances foibles romances regrets memory

Iris Murdoch

96278da

--but then I decided I didn't want any regrets. I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

young-adult depression regrets mental-health

Ned Vizzini

19a29be

It does no good to regret the past... yet regret remains just the same.

regret regrets

Sang-Sun Park

07002ee

"L'Horloge Horloge! dieu sinistre, effrayant, impassible, Dont le doigt nous menace et nous dit: "Souviens-toi! Les vibrantes Douleurs dans ton coeur plein d'effroi Se planteront bientot comme dans une cible; Le plaisir vaporeux fuira vers l'horizon Ainsi qu'une sylphide au fond de la coulisse ; Chaque instant te devore un morceau du delice A chaque homme accorde pour toute sa saison. Trois mille six cents fois par heure, la Seconde Chuchote: Souviens-toi! - Rapide, avec sa voix D'insecte, Maintenant dit: Je suis Autrefois, Et j'ai pompe ta vie avec ma trompe immonde! Remember! Souviens-toi, prodigue! Esto memor! (Mon gosier de metal parle toutes les langues.) Les minutes, mortel folatre, sont des gangues Qu'il ne faut pas lacher sans en extraire l'or! Souviens-toi que le Temps est un joueur avide Qui gagne sans tricher, a tout coup! c'est la loi. Le jour decroit; la nuit augmente; souviens-toi! Le gouffre a toujours soif; la clepsydre se vide. Tantot sonnera l'heure ou le divin Hasard, Ou l'auguste Vertu, ton epouse encor vierge, Ou le repentir meme (oh! la derniere auberge!), Ou tout te dira: Meurs, vieux lache! il est trop tard!"

time regrets

Charles Baudelaire