#regret

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse. ↗

— P.G. Wodehouse

#principles #regret #remorse #love

I'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. ↗

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

#regret #love

No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a progress start a scene or two Advise the prince no doubt an easy tool Deferential glad to be of use Politic cautious and meticulous Full of high sentence but a bit obtuse At times indeed almost ridiculous— Almost at times the Fool. I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behind Do I dare to eat a peach I shall wear white flannel trousers and walk upon the beach. I have heard the mermaids singing each to each. I do not think that they will sing to me. I have seen them riding seaward on the waves Combing the white hair of the waves blown back When the wind blows the water white and black. We have lingered in the chambers of the sea By sea-girls wreathed with seaweed red and brown Till human voices wake us and we drown. ↗

— T.S. Eliot

#loneliness #mermaid #regret #trousers #love

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet. ↗

— Samuel Park

#others #regret #love

Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn't I try it ages ago? ↗

— Steve Hockensmith

#regret #seduction #age

I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted. ↗

— Kaui Hart Hemmings

#regret #love

After that came her biggie: a triple murder--her dealer, the dealer's sister, and the dealer's sister's boyfriend. Reading that made me feel a little funny that we'd fucked and I'd loved her. ↗

— George Saunders

#humor #regret #love

Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#inspirational #judge #judging #life #memories

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both. ↗

— Søren Kierkegaard

#regret #life

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. ↗

— Nicholas Sparks

#feeling #love #message-in-a-bottle #nicholas-sparks #regret