Quotes about Regret

Sonetimes the hardest person to forgive is yourself.

The loser, when a game of dice is done, remains behind reviewing every roll sadly, and sadly wiser, and alone.

Life contains but two tragedies. One is not to get your heart's desire; the other is to get it.

Most misfortunes are the results of misused time.

The Hell of Regret He who wins the race cannot run with the pack. And once you get out you can't come back, because caged lions don't mate with free ones! If ever you are going to win, you must forsake the social construct of the cage and all the cage dwellers.

The only thing that ever consoles man for the stupid things he does is the praise he always gives himself for doing them.

Most men die at 27, we just bury them at 72.

He who loses an opportunity is like the man who lets a bird fly from his hand, for he will never recover it.

If I have said something to hurt a man once, I shall not get the better of this by saying many things to please him.

You have to choose your future regrets.

People, heed my warning: That stuff is Specials Olympics in a pint glass. You think they are harmless and not very strong, and the next thing you know it is an hour later and you are in the bathroom of the bar with your pants off, surrounded by five girls, giving your boxers to a bachelorette party because one of the girls is cute and told you that you had a nice butt. Be forewarned. - from the Austin Road Trip story

She let her head fall back upon Marius' knees and her eyelids closed. He thought that poor soul had gone. Eponine lay motionless; but just when Marius supposed her for ever asleep, she slowly opened her eyes in which the gloomy deepness of death appeared, and said to him with an accent the sweetness on which already seemed to come from another world: And then, do you know, Monsieur Marius, I believe I was a little in love with you. She essayed to smile again and expired.