#regret

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#career #choosing #day #deep #died

Mom never quit on me. My only regret is that she didn't live long enough to share some of the money and comforts my work in show business has brought me. ↗

— Ethel Waters

#business #comforts #enough #live #long

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?" "A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus. ↗

— Cassandra Clare

#magnus-bane #regret #stele #want

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it... that's when you get into trouble ↗

— Sarah Dessen

#trouble

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. ↗

— Mercedes Lackey

#regret #past

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today. ↗

— John Wooden

#observation

It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life. ↗

— Tami Egonu

#regrets #dreams

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

— Laura Kasischke

#regret #heartbreak

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible; nostalgia for what never was; the desire for what could have been; regret over not being someone else; dissatisfaction with the world’s existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are. ↗

— Fernando Pessoa

#longing #pain #regret #yearning #consciousness

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#regret #time #wit