emotional regret Quotes

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you've ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It's a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

Where I feel something that I had written was misinterpreted in a way that made people feel bad, that is absolutely horrifying to me. I feel so embarrassed and I feel ashamed that I should make people feel bad.

Why is it we can never love the people we ought to?

I agree, Dad. I was just explaining to the woman why we don’t look anything alike and why you would have been younger than me when I was born. It doesn’t mean I don’t love you ‘cause you know I do. Make one snotty comment in anger when you’re twelve years old going through puberty and getting grounded, and you pay for it for the rest of your life. Parents ain’t got no sense of humor. (Omari)

I wish I had a great relationship with my mother.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Fool that I am," said he,"that I did not tear out my heart the day I resolved to revenge myself".

A word spoken is a terrible thing when it suddenly utters what the heart has long allowed.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

So many of us have loved ones and people we really care about, and the only time we show affection is when they are gone. I have preached at funerals, and you see loved ones who didn't even say hello to dear ones when they were alive. Give them hugs, kisses while they are alive and need it.

A couple of years before he died, I kissed my father goodbye. He said, 'Son, you haven't kissed me since you were a little boy.' It went straight to my heart, and I kissed him whenever I saw him after that, and my sons and I always kiss whenever we meet.

We all say things that we later regret.

I was in a bad mood when I wrote that.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

I quit the Knicks, so I know what quitting is. I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day, and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision, and I quit.

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

People hardly ever do anything in anger, of which they do not repent.

Sadly, I'm one of those people who emotionally puts things off and then gets caught very blindsided at the end.

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.

Like so many women, I was living out the unlived life of my mother, so I wouldn't be her. But the price I paid was that I distanced myself internally. I wasn't as close to her then as I nowadays, in retrospect, wish I had been.

Of her scorn the maid repented, And the shepherd - of his love.

I only had one boyfriend my whole life, and I never loved him.