#regret

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it's like chasing clouds. ↗

— Libba Bray

#change

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

— Harryette Mullen

#poetry #regrets #silence #courage

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad ↗

— Julie Klausner

#dating

We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try. ↗

— Ekaterina Sedia

#decisions #mortality #regret #souls #death

Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day. ↗

— Anthony Liccione

#regrets #suicide #surviors #death

It never gets easier, does it? Killing—I feel still like I might as well be in hell already. No matter how much you hate them, no matter how much you want to do it, there’s an instant when you catch their eyes. And you know. You know that they don’t want to die! ↗

— Krystal Graves

#dying #regret #death

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short. ↗

— Armistead Maupin

#been #being #could #damn #feared

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons. ↗

— Nina LaCour

#love #reason #regret #suicide #friendship

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience. ↗

— Oscar Wilde

#pleasure #regret #experience

There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret. ↗

— Criss Jami

#counterpart #discovery #empiricism #experience #failures