#regret

I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything. ↗

— Paulo Coelho

#moments #regrets #change

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans? ↗

— Kazuo Ishiguro

#regret #life

The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay...but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think. ↗

— Derek Landy

#immortality #loneliness #mortality #regret #survival

I can't change what happened. If I'm honest, I don't want to. I won't regret it. I'll keep those memories trapped in a bubble away from labels of good and bad and right and wrong ↗

— Sara Grant

#change

Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment. ↗

— Andrew Ashling

#change

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all. ↗

— Anne Tyler

#regret #risk-taking #change

I regret to say I'm unable to reply to your unexpressed desires. ↗

— Harryette Mullen

#poetry #regrets #silence #courage

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them. ↗

— Philip K. Dick

#haunting #madness #regret #death

I'm trying to make myself better. But I don't regret anything that I've gone through, because it makes me who I am. ↗

— Nick Carter

#anything #because #better #gone #i

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined - how is it that this safe return brings such regret? ↗

— Peter Matthiessen

#anything #beautiful #brings #far #had