Regret
Quotes - Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on
“Don’t
waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to
be unhappy.”
―
Roy T. Bennett
“I've
got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?"
"A
regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.”
―
Cassandra Clare, City of Ashes
“Of
all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.”
―
Kurt Vonnegut
“Time
was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on.
I
hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.”
―
jonathan safran foer
“The
feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are
absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are
impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been;
regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence.
All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful
landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are.”
―
Fernando Pessoa
“If
I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
―
José Saramago, Blindness
“The
only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they
ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only
thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't
invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
―
Ted Hughes, Letters of Ted Hughes
“Eventually
something you love is going to be taken away. And then you will fall to the
floor crying. And then, however much later, it is finally happening to you:
you’re falling to the floor crying thinking, “I am falling to the floor
crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would
happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the place
where the wall meets the floor and you realize you didn’t paint it very well.”
―
Richard Siken
“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, you will regret that too; laugh at the world’s
foolishness or weep over it, you will regret both. Believe a woman, you will
regret it; believe her not, you will also regret it… Hang yourself, you will
regret it; do not hang yourself, and you will regret that too; hang yourself or
don’t hang yourself, you’ll regret it either way; whether you hang yourself or
do not hang yourself, you will regret both. This, gentlemen, is the essence of
all philosophy.”
―
Søren Kierkegaard
We
all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you
“We
all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you
are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with
the power to shape your day and your future.”
―
Steve Maraboli, Unapologetically You: Reflections on Life and the Human
Experience
“I
see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do
this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not
do it — you will regret both.”
―
Soren Kierkegaard, Either/Or: A Fragment of Life
“One
of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be,
rather than being yourself.”
―
Shannon L. Alder
“I've
got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts - you know, when you lie in bed awake and
replay all those things you didn't do right? Because, as we all know, nothing
solves insomnia like a nice warm glass of regret, depression and
self-loathing.”
―
D.D. Barant, Dying Bites
“There
was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had
thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
―
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
“Well,
it's true that I have been hurt in my life. Quite a bit. But it's also true
that I have loved, and been loved. and that carries a weight of its own. A
greater weight, in my opinion. It's like that pie chart we talked about
earlier. in the end, I'll look back on my life and see that the greatest piece
of it was love. The problems, the divorces, the sadness... those will be there
too, but just smaller slivers, tiny pieces.”
―
Sarah Dessen, This Lullaby
