#regrets

It wouldn't be New Year's if I didn't have regrets. ↗

— William Thomas

#new #regrets #year

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

— Mickey Mantle

#regrets #age

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

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 do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. ↗

— Mary Chesnut

#i #i do #myself #regrets #vain

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only. ↗

— Lisa See

#regrets #love

You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.” “Ethan—” “No. I will never be far behind you.” He tipped up my chin so that I could do nothing else but look back into his eyes. “Do the things you need to do. Learn to be a vampire, to be a warrior, to be the soldier you are capable of being. But consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret—and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning. ↗

— Chloe Neill

#merit #regrets #chance

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

— Tami Egonu

#regrets #dreams

This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; its a shame that not one of our problems was ever solved. We depart with a thousand regrets in our hearts. ↗

— Omar Khayyám

#grief #home #life #pain #poetry

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