Caitlyn Jenner Quotes

It's hard to regret making the choice that you think is right.

Was there another life she was meant to be living? At times she felt a keen certainty that there was ― a phantom life, taunting her from just out of reach. A sense would come over her while she was drawing or walking, and once while she was dancing slow and close with Kaz, that she was supposed to be doing something else with her hands, with her legs, with her body. Something else. Something else. Something else.

That man made me miss my destiny.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

I misled people, including even my wife.

Sometimes I can feel my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

One of the worst things you can die with is potential.

Sometimes I can hear my bones straining under the weight of all the lives I'm not living.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

There is no pain worse than not achieving a dream when it is your fault. If God did not want you to have it, that is one thing. But if you do not get what you desire because you are lazy, there is no pain worse than that.

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

My arms are up to the elbows in blood. That is the most terrible thing that lies in my soul.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

I worry that Jesus drinks himself to sleep when he hears me talk like this.

We regret the things we don't do more than the things we do.

We do not always remember the things that do no credit to us. We justify them, cover them in bright lies or with the thick dust of forgetfulness. All of the things that Shadow had done in his life of which he was not proud, all the things he wished he had done otherwise or left undone, came at him then in a swirling storm of guilt and regret and shame, and he had nowhere to hide from them. He was as naked and as open as a corpse on a table, and dark Anubis the jackal god was his prosector and his prosecutor and his persecutor.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

I never meant to hurt you, Isabel. Had I known what I would find when I came north, I would never have agreed to Leighton's request... That is a lie. Had I known that I would find you when I came north, I would have come years ago.

I had one life. And what did I do? Wasted it in some palooka preliminaries in Spain, just before Hitler and Chamberlain warm up for the main event.

We are all guilty of the good we did not do

Regret is a tricky word. Here's a big secret: nobody knows what wasn't.

hen Baillie [Walsh, writer and director] wrote the movie for me I wasn't doing what I'm doing today, so when we actually came to make the movie it seemed silly to change it. But who knows? That's the way things go. What was interesting for me - and what was always interesting in the script - was that you've got someone who appears to have everything, or at least has the opportunity to have everything, and he's f**ked it up, or lost it.