2,008 Quotes About Regret

we met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I--drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your--foreign static frequency and grey-green eyes(I swear they are even if you--think otherwise): stormscalm ones, calmer than my--raging coals, empty and deadyou speak of souls like you believealways an optimist in pessimisticskin of ivory and titanium mesh...

Our dreams are never realized and as soon as we see them betrayed we realize that the intensest joys of our life have nothing to do with reality. No sooner do we see them betrayed than we are consumed with regret for the time when they glowed within us. And in this succession of hopes and regrets our life slips by.

If you could go back in time and redo one thing in your life, what would it be?

Malachite eyes sparkled, pale green in the light of the setting sun.

Karma’s not a bitch. She’s a whore, acting like I’ve stolen her pimp.

Regrets, it seems, are easy to realise when you're dying.

But what if, after one small change, her life would become much worse than it was? Or unthinkable disasters result from a single step off her path?

And so, Anaya's story begins with her last thought. Would I have done this if I had any option but the grave?

The vibrant matte amethyst dial made the gleaming hour and minute markers seem to come alive. The long, thick hands were fragile, yet ceaselessly ticking by, like life itself. Countless hours must have been invested in the bezel, meticulously hashed all the way around. The tachymeter claimed prominence as if asserting that distance travelled over time should be of paramount importance. Never had the sheer pace and inevitability of time been better captured in an object.