#regret

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it. ↗

— Claire Holden Rothman

#life #regret #life

People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long. ↗

— Sarah Addison Allen

#truth #life

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories. ↗

— Bill Watterson

#long-term #memories #regrets #life

Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out. ↗

— Gayle Forman

#bhie #future #life #past #regrets

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions. ↗

— Sarah Ockler

#bittersweet #regrets #sarah-ockler #sorry #action

Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers. ↗

— Gretchen McNeil

#life #people #regret #sorry #suckers

I wish I knew why she never told me any of this. Maybe she thought I wouldn't be able to handle it, that I was too sheltered or too innocent or something. If she had told me why she cut herself all the time, or that it was the pills that made her act so spaced out, or that she was even on pills, or even saw doctors, or any of it, I would have done my best to help her. I'm not saying I'm a superhero. I'm not saying I would have just swooped down and saved her. I'm just saying the only reason everything was a waste was that she made it a waste. That whole time, back when I was just a normal kid in high school, living out my normal life, I really thought everything mattered. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#suicide #wishful-thinking #life

My biggest regret is what I didn’t say… (Jake) ↗

— Keary Taylor

#life #regret #sad #life

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved. ↗

— Jude Morgan

#regrets #life

Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. ↗

— Edward Teller

#had #hydrogen #i #no regrets #now