#regrets

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself. ↗

— Mickey Mantle

#regrets #age

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

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what. ↗

— Salman Rushdie

#regrets #business

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

— T.A. Webb

#regrets #death

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over. ↗

— Benedict Cumberbatch

#death #driving #film #life #living-to-the-fullest

I remember her, not a girl but the girl. The brains behind the all time top ten comic book vixens only wish they could conjure a a siren the likes of Susan Glenn, beneath my feet my own private earthquake registered an eight when Susan Glenn was near. In her presence all was beautiful before she arrived turned grotesque and in her shadows others became goblinesque, if she approached Susan Glenn she didn’t walk she floated, accompanied by Pyrotechnics spectacals that left me feeling a foot tall. She embodied every desireable quality I have ever wanted. In my mind I was a peasant before a Queen. And so Susan Glenn and I were never a thing, if I could do it again, I’d do it differently. ↗

— Keifer Sutherland

#no-regrets #susan-gleen #the-girl-of-your-dreams #the-perfect-girl #beauty

The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it’s rare that we’re listened to. ↗

— Tami Egonu

#ghosts #regrets #dreams

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another. ↗

— Veronica Roth

#tris-prior #friendship

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

— Ned Vizzini

#living #moving-on #regrets #funny

I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#i #i do #myself #regrets #vain