Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid… well, they’ve started to give me a little pang or something – not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet,...

My animal howlsMy angel’s upsetBut I’m not allowedA trace of regret

For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one spends one’s time, not in getting to know what one’s love really is, but in making...

I don’t like forgetting, Elías,” I said with my eyes closed. A single tear slipped down my cheek and I let it. “I don’t want to forget these moments that constantly remind me of who...

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

The only things I regret, and the only things I’ll ever regret are things I didn’t do. In the end, that’s what we mourn. The paths we didn’t take. The people we didn’t touch.

Mistakes and regret, desease and death…ain’t recognized by mind that capable on changing them into otherwise.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

Mr. Frimpong is the oldest person from church. That’s when I knew why he sings louder than anybody else: it’s because he’s been waiting the longest for God to answer. He thinks God has forgotten...

Take ACTION! When we DO NOT take action, our potentiality becomes the soil that houses the seeds of our regret.

Those silly girls had no idea what they were really celebrating. They had no idea what it took to bring Agatha and her friends together seventy-five years ago. The Women’s Society Club had been about...

The trouble with ‘if only’ is that it doesn’t change anything. It keeps the person facing the wrong way – backward instead of forward. It wastes time. In the end, if you let it become...

I regret the inconvenience caused to the house,

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

Regret is counterproductive. It’s looking back on a past that you can’t change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.

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

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been...

I regret things all the time. I’ve never regretted not saying something. I’ve only regretted saying something.

I’m not sure if the question’s rhetorical or if she thinks I have a clue to her metaphysical mystery. And I’m in no state to answer either way because I’m crying. I don’t realize it...

We express our regret at this.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

When Olivier had been taken away Gamache had sat back down and stared at the sack. what could be worse than Chaos, Despair, War?What would even the Mountain flee from? Gamache had given it a...

Kahneman’s evidence shows that we suck at remembering and predicting our own well-being. We as a culture still ignore this empirical evidence, recommending to live our lives so as to avoid deathbed regrets. Deathbed regrets...

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must...

There are three things that robots cannot do,” wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote “Show preference without reason (LOVE)” and then “Doubt...

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

But I think believing that things happen for a reason makes it easier for us to keep going. Dengan menerima kenyataan, kita akan lebih mudah bergerak maju, mengecilkan ruang untuk rasa sesal.

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it,...

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights...

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

He came through the door howling, an axe arched high over his head. His eyes danced in madness, stuck fast on the two of them kissing, caught in their embrace and unaware of him. For...

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Go take a shower, you smell like good sex and unnecessary regret.

It wasn’t a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions are coming around too. How much further do I need to go? I’m...

I feel her tears every night hitting the hard dusty ground of my dessert heart and making a whooshing noise that echoes through my bones and veins with great anguish. It’s the worst feeling I’ve...

‘None of Your Business.’ It’s the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you’ll REGRET it!

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven...

I was wrong. I regret it, and I apologize,

Enjoy your freedom today, leave the regret for tomorrow.

this is new, but you being an asshole, yep- still there. Oh well.” I took a step back and flicked the door, slamming it. -Trice

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret…

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što prećutiš.

That which I have seen, in that one little moment will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the...

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow...

Only those who vacillate have the possibility to regret. Those who know what they want, they have it easy; if everything goes wrong, they know they did not have a choice.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.