Regret Quotes - Page 38

• When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.

  Nicholas Sparks

  Feelings, Persons

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• To think, after all this time, after all the searching and all the waiting, after all the regret and the time she'd spent away, she came back to find that happiness was right where she's left it. On a football field in Mullaby, North Carolina. Waiting for her.

  Sarah Addison Allen

  Football, Thinking, Waiting

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

  Holly Black

  Night, Trouble, Said

  Holly Black (2012). “Red Glove”, p.303, Simon and Schuster

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• A dim antagonism gathered force within him and darkened his mind as a cloud against her disloyalty: and when it passed, cloudlike, leaving his mind serene and dutiful towards her again, he was made aware dimly and without regret of a first noiseless sundering of their lives.

  James Joyce

  Clouds, Leaving, Mind

  James Joyce (2013). “Delphi Complete Works of James Joyce (Illustrated)”, p.137, Delphi Classics

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• Inez? I'm sorry I bit you," he said with sincere regret, and then inspiration made him add, "Bastien made me do it.

  Lynsay Sands

  Sorry, Inspiration, Add

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• Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

  Xiaolu Guo

  Past, Looks, Emptiness

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• I regret how much I believed in the future.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  I Regret

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• The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

  Jonathan Safran Foer

  Mistake, Made, Live By

  Jonathan Safran Foer (2006). “Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close”, p.362, Penguin UK

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• The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

  Jim Butcher

  Past, Different, Gone

  Jim Butcher (2008). “Captain's Fury”, p.314, Penguin

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• One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

  Sharon M. Draper

  Sweet, Kissing, Opportunity

  Sharon M. Draper (2011). “The Battle of Jericho”, p.290, Simon and Schuster

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• The feeling I have reminds me of New Year’s Eve, when the countdown is coming and I’m not quite sure whether to grab my camera or just live in the moment. Usually I grab the camera and later regret it when the picture doesn’t turn out. Then I feel enormously let down and think to myself that the night would have been more fun if it didn’t mean quite so much, if I weren’t forced to analyze where I’ve been and where I’m going.

  Emily Giffin

  New Year, Fun, Mean

  Emily Giffin (2010). “Something Borrowed: A Novel”, p.12, Macmillan

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• There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.

  David Rakoff

  Home, Numbers, Should Have

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• Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

  Ian Mcewan

  Gratitude, Men, Profound

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, March 11, 2010.

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• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Night, People, Joy

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

  Laura Kasischke

  Motivational, Sad, Heartbroken

  Laura Kasischke (2011). “The Raising”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.

  Paulo Coelho

  Thinking, Choices, Missing

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• I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.

  Hubert Selby, Jr.

  Home, Two, Profound

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• Alex gazed at her. Her mouth was slightly open; she ran her fingernail against her lower teeth as she thought. She'd knotted her hair at the nape of her neck again, and a strand had slipped loose onto her shoulder, gleaming in the lantern light. Suddenly all of his objections seemed meaningless. Don't, he thought. You'll regret it. He didn't care anymore. Slowly, unable to stop himself, he reached out and cupped his hand around her foot.

  L.A. Weatherly

  Feet, Light, Hair

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• Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

  Anna Godbersen

  Alive, Weight, Lifetime

  Anna Godbersen (2009). “The Luxe”, p.20, Harper Collins

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• I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.

  China Mieville

  Cowardice, Understood

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• September: it was the most beautiful of words, he’d always felt, evoking orange-flowers, swallows, and regret.

  Alexander Theroux

  Beautiful, Flower, Autumn

  Alexander Theroux (1981). “Darconville's cat”, Doubleday Books

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• But mostly, I remembered what I’ve always believed. What my mom taught me. That while some things are just plain awful, most things in life can be seen either tragic or comic. And it’s your choice. Is life a big, long, tiresome slog from sadness to regret to guilt to resentment to self-pity? Or is life weird, outrageous, bizarre, ironic, and just stupid? Gotta go with stupid. It’s not the easy way out. Self pity is the easiest thing in the world. Finding the humor, the irony, the slight justification for a skewed, skeptical optimism. That’s tough. - Marco, Animorphs #35: The Proposal

  Katherine Applegate

  Mom, Stupid, Sadness

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• Regrets don't help anything.

  Sue Monk Kidd

  Helping

  Barbara Taylor Bradford, Sue Monk Kidd (2001). “Of love and life: three novels selected and condensed by Reader's Digest”

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• We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the conversations we never had, the time we did not spend together. I regret that I never told him that he made me happy, when I was in his company. The world was the better for his being in it. These things alone do I now regret: things left unsaid. And he is gone, and I am old.

  Neil Gaiman

  Together, Gone, World

  "The Wake (The Sandman, Book 10)". Book sub-series by Neil Gaiman, August 1995 – March 1996.

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• I took the easy way, and to an extent I regret that. Still, though, the way we did it was honest. We played it and sang it the way we felt it, and there's a lot to be said for that.

  Johnny Cash

  Way, Honest, Easy

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