Regret
Quotes - I wanted to tell her everything
“We
all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part
of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that,
well, it's like chasing clouds.”
―
Libba Bray
“The
Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,
Moves
on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit
Shall
lure it back to cancel half a Line,
Nor
all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.”
―
Omar Khayyám
“Maybe
all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
―
Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
“We
don't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in our past. Some
people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's a regret, maybe
it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.”
―
Pittacus Lore, I Am Number Four
“I
wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived
differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd
said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love
anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I
couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am,
instead of there.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“I
don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and
nothing to regret. I don't like people who have never fallen or stumbled. Their
virtue is lifeless and of little value. Life hasn't revealed its beauty to
them.”
―
Boris Pasternak, Doctor Zhivago
“If
only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
―
Mercedes Lackey
“Maybe
it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn
abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it,
because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him 'You
are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then
will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you
died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to
exist.”
―
André Aciman, Call Me by Your Name
“The
mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never
did.”
―
Jonathan Safran Foer, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
“There
are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can't.”
―
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
“It’s
not that we have to quit
this
life one day, but it’s how
many
things we have to quit
all
at once: music, laughter,
the
physics of falling leaves,
automobiles,
holding hands,
the
scent of rain, the concept
of
subway trains... if only one
could
leave this life slowly!”
―
Roman Payne, Rooftop Soliloquy
“If
you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in
many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you
were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over
your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”
―
Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
“You
might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”
―
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
“There
are two kinds of guilt: the kind that drowns you until you’re useless, and the
kind that fires your soul to purpose.”
―
Sabaa Tahir, An Ember in the Ashes
“Droll
thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile
purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that
comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
―
Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
“And
I want to tell you about everything but I can't because I couldn't stand for
you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me
and think that I'm normal. I just really need that from you.”
―
Nina LaCour, Hold Still
“They
were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
―
John Irving, The World According to Garp
“Make
it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an
appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing
in.”
―
Katherine Mansfield
“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, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little
guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to
look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I
turned you into me.”
―
Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
