Quotes about Regret

There is one thing sadder than to see one's children die; it is to see them leading an evil life.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

My life is a perfect graveyard of buried hopes.

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all. If we have only one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

If I hadn't met you, I'd certainly have fallen in love with him.

She refused at first, saying it would make a mockery of their love. She loved him too much to admit that what she thought of as unforgettable could ever be forgotten. Finally, of course, she did as he asked, but without enthusiasm. The notebooks showed it: they had many empty pages, and the entries were fragmentary.

Men grow old, the end draws near, each moment becomes more and more valuable, and there is no time to waste over recollections.

If we only have one life to live, we might as well not have lived at all.

Einmal ist keinmal, says Tomas to himself. What happens but once, says the German adage, might as well not have happened at all.

Her guilty conscience was as vague as original sin.

I catch myself thinking about him in the past tense all the time.