Regret
Quotes - I never told you that I love you
“Our
biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we
haven't done”
―
Chad Michael Murray
“I
never told you that I love you. And I regret that, most of all.”
―
Rebecca Ross, Divine Rivals
“Hindsight,
I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because
of innumerable circumstances, and we, each of us, have a responsibility (if we
do not like where we are) to move along life's road, to find a better path if
this one does not suit, or to walk happily along this one if it is indeed our
life's way. Changing even the bad things that have gone before would
fundamentally change who we are, and whether or not that would be a good thing,
I believe, it is impossible to predict.
So
I take my past experiences... and try to regret nothing.
-Drizzt
Do'urden”
―
R.A. Salvatore, Sea of Swords
“You
can't regret the life you didn't lead.”
―
Junot Díaz, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao
“You
tread lightly through life, but you leave deep footprints that are hard for
other people to fill.”
―
Josie Silver, One Day in December
“Liam,
soon-to-be-fucking-dead, Callahan was walking down the stairs—my fucking
stairs—with his sex hair high and his green eyes sharper than razor blades. He
was beautiful, and I almost regretted the fact that I would have to put a
bullet in his head and then smash it through a fucking wall.
-Melody
G.”
―
J.J. McAvoy, Ruthless People
“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.”
―
Scott Spencer, Endless Love
“The
cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
―
Philip K. Dick, VALIS
“There
is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the
backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into
manhood. The boy is walking through the street of his town. He is thinking of
the future and of the figure he will cut in the world. Ambitions and regrets
awake within him. Suddenly something happens; he stops under a tree and waits
as for a voice calling his name. Ghosts of old things creep into his
consciousness; the voices outside of himself whisper a message concerning the
limitations of life. From being quite sure of himself and his future he becomes
not at all sure. If he be an imaginative boy a door is torn open and for the
first time he looks out upon the world, seeing, as though they marched in
procession before him, the countless figures of men who before his time have
come out of nothingness into the world, lived their lives and again disappeared
into nothingness. The sadness of sophistication has come to the boy. With a
little gasp he sees himself as merely a leaf blown by the wind through the
streets of his village. He knows that in spite of all the stout talk of his
fellows he must live and die in uncertainty, a thing blown by the winds, a
thing destined like corn to wilt in the sun.”
―
Sherwood Anderson, Winesburg, Ohio: A Group of Tales of Ohio Small Town Life
“The
expression in her eyes was bitter as nightshade. 'You ask me about regret? Let
me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You
cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here.
Should you regret the whole chain, and the air between, or each link
separately, as if you could uncouple them? Do you regret the beginning which
ended so badly, or just the ending itself? I've given more thought to this
question than you can begin to imagine.”
―
Janet Fitch, White Oleander
“For
it falls out
That
what we have we prize not to the worth
Whiles
we enjoy it, but being lacked and lost,
Why,
then we rack the value, then we find
The
virtue that possession would not show us
While
it was ours.”
―
William Shakespeare, Much Ado About Nothing
“I
look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling
lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of
mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders.”
―
Jennifer Elisabeth, Born Ready: Unleash Your Inner Dream Girl
“MOTHER
IS WATER
I
wish I could
Shower
your head with flowers
And
anoint your feet with my tears,
For
I know I have caused you
So
much heartache, frustration and despair –
Throughout
my youthful years.
I
wish I could give you
The
remainder of my life
To
add to yours,
Or
simply erase
The
lines on your face,
And
mend all that has been torn.
For
next to God,
You
are the fire
That
has given light
To
the flame in each of my eyes.
You
are the fountain
That
nourished my growth,
And
from your chalice –
Gave
me life.
Without
the wetness of your love,
The
fragrance of your water,
Or
the trickling sounds of
Your
voice,
I
shall always feel
thirsty.”
―
Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
“I
want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don't seem to
know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So I
do nothing.”
―
Gayle Forman, Just One Day
“i
dont love you... like i loved you... yesterday.”
―
Gerard Way
“I
need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with
you, loving you. It was all worth it.”
―
Jenny Han, We'll Always Have Summer
“Regrets
came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part
but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.”
―
Steve Toltz, A Fraction of the Whole
“Look
in my face; my name is Might-have-been;
I
am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell”
―
Dante Gabriel Rossetti, The House of Life
