The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Oh no,” I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then “oh no” is apparently that song’s chorus, the words we always return to.

Take the stupidest thing you’ve ever done. At least it’s done. It’s over. It’s gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it’s harder to learn or heal or...

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

…alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life–it was not worth much–not like a life...

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there’s nothing much to regret.

Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party

When you have no future, you live in the past.

And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I’ll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait mightfold in too, producing the same horrific effect as Jeremy’s: that I, all along,...

Don’t live in a world of ‘I never should have’. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at...

The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can’t help it.

I don’t dwell in the past I just can’t forget what’s passed.

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into...

The night of my accident, when I opened my eyes and you were there? Seeing you again, Rebecca…It was like someone let the air back into the room.

Men didn’t have any idea about regretbefore God felt so once after created us.

That’s why I ended up leaving school – because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed...

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong...

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

…I am a person who believes in form, in the harmony of order. Where we can, we must give things a meaningful shape. […] It is important in life to conclude things properly. Only then...

We rarely repent of having eaten too little.

I’d wasted so much of my life. So many of my days, and all of my promise, all of my dreams, lost to hospitals, to depression, to wanting to die. This wasn’t how it was...

Hesitating, I stood in the doorway to the room holding the proof of my sin.

Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt–an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics....

My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

They don’t give gold bracelets for regrets.

I’ll watch the Final Four when there are three teams playing at once for two titles and one large bag of regrets. That bag is mostly full of air, like a bag of potato chips,...

You can tell it any way you want but that’s the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And some part of me has never quit wishin I could go back....

I’m an old man, now. I’ve been alone since my 17th birthday. I’d wanted to marry, have a bunch of kids, and maybe be a grandpa. The big family around the Thanksgiving table, laughing and...

I’m not big on regret – until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

I prefer to love the one my heart has chosen for me, and I won’t regret it

I stepped closer to him and lowered my voice. ‘If you could change one thing, what would it be?’He pulled the sheep pendant from his pocket. A question filled his eyes. I held out my...

That night, when you kissed me, I thought you did it because you were drinking. All I could focus on was getting you home before you did something you’d regret in the morning. I didn’t...

Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imaginedfuture, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love ora passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convincedthat even...

My attitude is born out of necessity. I’ve made mistakes. I’ve made decisions I regretted. I know what it’s like to live with regret. I live with it everyday. But if I let it take...

As we have said throughout the auction process, we continue to be interested in Daewoo Motor. We regret that Daewoo lost valuable time while its condition continues to deteriorate.

Sometimes you cannot clear the past completely. You must live alongside your sorrow.

..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more.

Be not wishing and pining but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.”- from “Dimpellumpzki

Dear Future Me, I hope that today you are the person you always set out to be. I hope you accomplished everything that they said you could never do. How many lives do you change...

Nothin’s what it seems, drow!” Bruenor declared. “Nothin’! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? But then ye find that ye know not what ye thought ye knowed! Thought a dog’d be tastin’...

I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.

I thought of all the hardships and people that I had lost in the past few days alone, but, most of all, I thought of how I didn’t regret any of it.

The hurt, resentment, the revenge, the pride, and regret are thrown hard and fast like snowballs in the winter. Some major ones hit hard; some minor ones just roll off, while others stick for an...

I don’t regret setting bombs.

Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don’t even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.

Not only a few times, but every time he did not give in to his urge to go look for her, he resented the moment that came in its place. Even if the moment was...