Regret Quotes - Page 36

• For years afterwards when Amory thought of Eleanor he seemed still to hear the wind sobbing around him and sending little chills into the places beside his heart. The night when they rode up the slope and watched the cold moon float through the clouds, he lost a further part of him that nothing could restore; and when he lost it he lost also the power of regretting it.

  F. Scott Fitzgerald

  Heart, Moon, Night

  F. Scott Fitzgerald (2013). “Three Novels: Tender is the Night; The Beautiful and Damned; Thi”, p.943, Simon and Schuster

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• If there is one regret that I have had in my life, it is that I never fathered any children. There are times, when I look at what Fergus and Beryl have produced, when I consider myself fortunate, but there are also times when it breaks my heart.

  Derek Landy

  Children, Heart, Looks

  Derek Landy (2013). “Skulduggery Pleasant:”, p.19, HarperCollins UK

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• I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.

  Ned Vizzini

  Failure, People, Done

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• Imagine the one god himself has reversed his clock and reversed your regrets. Imagine knowing the bone-deep truth that whatever impossibility would make you truly happy has been granted. Imagine knowing you can once again hold your lost lover or your newborn child. Imagine what you feel during those first seconds of knowing. Now, imagine those first seconds last for days on end. .... Like I said, I'm a chemist. It's all coming back to me.p62

  Craig Clevenger

  Children, Newborn Child, Knowing

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• Are you living everyday so that even if the end were to come you’d have to regrets?

  Ai Yazawa

  Everyday, Ends, Ifs

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• I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears

  Paulo Coelho

  Differences, Tears, Slavery

  FaceBook post by Paulo Coelho from Apr 09, 2010

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• One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

  Kristin Hannah

  I Can, One Thing

  Kristin Hannah (2008). “Firefly Lane”, p.22, Macmillan

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• Oh! captive, bound, and double-ironed," cried the phantom, "not to know, that ages of incessant labour, by immortal creatures, for this earth must pass into eternity before the good of which it is susceptible is all developed. Not to know that any Christian spirit working kindly in its little sphere, whatever it may be, will find its mortal life too short for its vast means of usefulness. Not to know that no space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused!

  Charles Dickens

  Christian, Mean, Opportunity

  Charles Dickens (1997). “Best Ghost Stories”, p.71, Wordsworth Editions

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• Powerful people have no regrets.

  Gregory David Roberts

  Powerful, People, No Regrets

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• Faythe…?" The tremor in his voice broke my heart. Then understanding surfaced, and his tear-filled eyes searched mine desperately. "No. No," he whispered through clenched teeth. "This was not wrong. It’s the only thing I’ve done right in months. Don’t you dare regret this.

  Rachel Vincent

  Heart, Eye, Voice

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• Our lives are made in these small hours, these little wonders, these twists & turns of fate. Time falls away, but these small hours, these small hours still remain. All of my regret, will wash away somehow. But i can not forget, the way i feel right now.

  Rob Thomas

  Fall, Fate, Twists

  Song: Little Wonders

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• C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

  John Green

  Sorry, Pudge, Tough

  John Green (2008). “Looking for Alaska”, p.40, Penguin

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• Real life is a funny thing, you know. In real life, saying the right thing at the right moment is beyond crucial. So crucial, in fact, that most of us start to hesitate, for fear of saying the wrong thing at the wrong time. But lately what I've begun to fear more that that is letting the moment pass without saying anything. I think most of us fear reaching the end of our life, and looking back, regretting the moments we didn't speak up. When we didn't say "I love you." When we should've said "I'm Sorry." When we didn't stand up for ourselves or some one who needed help.

  Taylor Swift

  Sorry, Real, Love You

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• Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.

  Taylor Swift

  Love, Life, Relationship

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• I don't have that many days left," he said as we sat together in the library. "Why would I want to spend them on matters of drainage and overdue accounts? I must husband my hours and spend every one of them wisely. I regret that I didn't come to this realization until I reached fifty years of age. Calpurnia, you would do well to adopt such an attitude at an earlier age. Spend each of your allotted hours with care.

  Jacqueline Kelly

  Husband, Attitude, Years

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• I don't regret the painful times; I bare my scars as if they were medals.

  Paulo Coelho

  Inspirational, Pain, Scar

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• 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

  Feelings, Might, Way

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• I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Hands, Soul, Dying

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• there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it.

  Kelley Armstrong

  Risk, Too Late, Failing

  Kelley Armstrong (2009). “Personal Demon”, p.454, Seal Books

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• Do I dazzle you?" I voiced my curiosity impulsively, and then the words were out, and it was too late to recall them. But before I had time to too deeply regret speaking the words aloud, she answered "Frequently." And her cheeks took on a faint pink glow. I dazzled her. My silent heart swelled with a hope more intense than I could ever remember having felt before.

  Stephenie Meyer

  Heart, Curiosity, Too Late

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• She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?

  Nicholas Sparks

  Grief, Kissing, Night

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• I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you---' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?

  Alexandre Dumas

  Sweet, Mean, Made

  Alexandre Dumas (1981). “The Count of Monte Cristo”

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• That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

  Siri Hustvedt

  Night, Bed, Facts

  Siri Hustvedt (2017). “The Blindfold”, p.34, Simon and Schuster

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• I highly regret this day in advance.

  Lisa McMann

  This Day

  Lisa McMann (2011). “Cryer's Cross (Multimedia eBook Edition with Video)”, p.78, Simon and Schuster

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• She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page through the past, and when she does, she remembers things, and her new journal entries become, for the most part, reactions to the days she regrets, wants to correct, rewrite.

  Dave Eggers

  Past, Needs, Want

  Dave Eggers (2007). “How the Water Feels to the Fishes”

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