regret

Too late... everything's always too late.

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

Ah, you dumb sonovabitch, why__ you let your warrior go?

Let's live to regret this" (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.

I'm sorry, I say. I didn't give you everything you wanted. I wasn't everything you wanted. You were everything I wanted.

Maybe it was the alcohol, maybe it was the truth, maybe I didn't want things to turn abstract, but I felt I should say it, because this was the moment to say it, because it suddenly dawned on me that this was why I had come, to tell him "You are the only person I'd like to say goodbye to when I die, because only then will this thing I call my life make any sense. And if I should hear that you died, my life as I know it, the me who is speaking with you now, will cease to exist.

I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle.

Don't make me regret this," I said, breathless."You haven't regretted me once.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

Until I met you," she said, "I never realized how precious each day could be. When I was working, each day was over before I knew it, and then a week just flew by, and then a whole year...What have I been doing all this time? Why didn't I meet you before? If I had to choose a whole year in the past, or a day with you-I'd choose a day with you...

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

When you have no future, you live in the past.

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.