I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.
Kaui Hart HemmingsI'm sorry," I say. "I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.
Kaui Hart HemmingsWhatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.
Laura LippmanTag: life wishes need possessions regret wanting jealously
It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said.
She laughed. 'Really?'
The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.
Tag: regret
Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong to us never think about us as much as we think about them, and that is the ultimate irony: their deeds live inside us, festering, while they live out in the world, plucking peaches off trees, biting juicily into them, their minds on things lovely and sweet.
Samuel ParkThings that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.
Janette RallisonTag: impossible regret
[H]e began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!
Robert Louis StevensonTag: regret
Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something that he had missed? Some richness of the spirit? Sadness crept over him. Yes, he should have become acquainted with the classics. Long ago. Now, alas, it was too late....
Agatha ChristieTag: literature classics regret retirement
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.
Roman PayneTag: life learning carpe-diem time youth literature life-lessons wind novel regret regrets caprice roman sigh great payne roman-payne
In reality of everyday occurrences I've had to submit to people in order not to lose them. It's less the submission that bothers me, I guess, than how it makes my life miserable. And what happens if I can't forgive myself for making that choice? And what if, in order to keep on living, I have to continue to accept myself? What am I supposed to do? Conclusion: It'd be best if I'm destroyed. The best thing is for me just to vanish.
Natsuo KirinoTag: suicide regret submission miserable
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