#regrets

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#aging #choices #life #life-paths #regrets

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

— Harryette Mullen

#poetry #regrets #silence #courage

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies. ↗

— Haruki Murakami

#effort #fragile #life #regrets #sincerity

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die. ↗

— T.A. Webb

#regrets #death

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

— Anthony Liccione

#regrets #suicide #surviors #death

I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed. ↗

— Ned Vizzini

#living #moving-on #regrets #funny

You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have. ↗

— Kim Edwards

#regrets #life

An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life. ↗

— Francisca Olivia

#opportunity #quote #regrets #life

It’s amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life. ↗

— Tami Egonu

#regrets #dreams

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life. ↗

— Ike Turner

#been #bridge #could #defend #done