161 quotes found
“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
“I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.”
“That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close ...”
“Four things do not come back: the spoken word, the sped arrow, the past life, and the neglected opportunity.”
“Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.”
“You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didnt. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back. And I cant. I didnt know you could steal your ...”
“It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.She laughed. 'Really?'The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.”
“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.”
“One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.”
“And it was pointless...to think how those years could have been put to better use, for he could hardly have put them to worse. There was no recovering them now. You could grieve endlessly for the l...”
“No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces”
“Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling the present.- From Under the Tuscan Sun, 2003”
“Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets.”
“Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not draw...”
“The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remors...”
“Oh God, Oh God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,To untell days, and to redeem these hours.”
“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. Theyre gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The wors...”
“There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, ...”
“I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.”
“A woman once held a Canary in the palm of her hand and stroked her and whispered a careful warning. The canary, seeking some freedom to fly, went into the mine while the woman watched in worry. The...”
