#regret

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely. ↗

— Truman Capote

#life #lonely #major #regret #unnecessarily

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart. ↗

— Jonathan Carroll

#cold #despite #everything #few #guaranteed

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#bring #does #history #hour #human

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #come #deathbed #decision #had

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest, Children dying in the road Crawling things hooked and baited, Rapists bound and then castrated, Villains singed in public square. Yet none these sights did make me cringe Like when my Love cut all her hair. ↗

— Roman Payne

#beauty #cutting-hair #destruction #hair #haircut

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#down #going #i #itself #known

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#appreciate #bit #circuit #enjoying #even

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

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#everything #history #idle #long #might