#regret

It's unfair." As a rule, life is unfair," I said. Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things." To Dick?" Yeah." I pulled the car over to the shoulder of the road and turned off the ignition. "That's just stupid, that kind of thinking," I said, nailing her with my eyes. "Instead of regretting what you did, you could have treated him decently from the beginning. You could've tried to be fair. But you didn't. You don't even have the right to be sorry. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#regret #unfairness #death

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. ↗

— David Grayson

#back #did #i #looking #looking back

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it. ↗

— Kohta Hirano

#god-s-will #personification #philosophy #regret #religion

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. ↗

— Jimi Hendrix

#except #hurt #i #in the past #might

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time. ↗

— E. W. Howe

#kill #life #men #regretting #short

People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. ↗

— Marcel Dionne

#ask #best #career #cup #experience

Of my four marriages, the one to Bob Levitt is the only one I don't regret. ↗

— Ethel Merman

#four #i #marriages #only #regret

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. ↗

— Zachary Taylor

#am #behind #die #done #duty