“Sometimes I think the people to feel the saddest for are people who are unable to connect with the profound—people such as my boring brother-in-law, a hearty type so concerned with normality and fitting in that he eliminates any possibility of uniqueness for himself and his own personality. I wonder if some day, when he is older, he will wake up and the deeper part of him will realize that he has never allowed himself to truly exist, and he will cry with regret and shame and grief.” PeopleIfsThinkingFeelsSometimesLawRealizingGriefWonderCryPossibilityBrotherRegretTypePersonalityConcernedWake UpShameProfoundBoringDeeperUniquenessIn-lawsFittingSaddestNormalityHeartyBrother In Law Book:Life After God Source: Life After God
“Chris Cooper once told me to never have any regrets. After Chris said that to me, I walk into every scene thinking, 'exhaust every possibility.' Once you get to a certain place, it's like you just deliver everything you've got. Don't have any regrets. It pops up in my mind over and over and over again.” ThinkingMindSaidCertainWalksPossibilityRegretLike YouScenePops Author:Jake Gyllenhaal
“Consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret-and that I'll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.” GivingTryingMadeEarthChanceMistakePossibilityRegretGive MeConvinceMade A MistakeI RegretAnother ChanceI Made A Mistake Book:Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel Source: Hard Bitten: A Chicagoland Vampires Novel
“That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world.” WorldWellsDifferentLove IsPathSadnessPossibilityRegretDifferent Paths Author:Melissa Brown
“If sportswriting teaches you anything, and there is much truth to it as well as plenty of lies, it is that for your life to be worth anything you must sooner or later face the possibility of terrible, searing regret. Though you must also manage to avoid it or your life will be ruined.” IfsWellsFacesLyingTeachPossibilityRegretTerribleManagePlentySooner Or LaterRuined Book:The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1) Source: The Sportswriter: Bascombe Trilogy (1)
“When I imagined my life, I always thought I'd be in my mid-30s before I felt capable of marrying. But I suddenly found that I'd met somebody and I said, "Screw it. I'm not gonna sit here saying, 'Oh no, I'm not ready,' and regret not having done this later on and the possibility of not having this person around." I thought, I'll jump into it and we'll figure it out as we go along.” DonePossibilityRegretCapableNot Ready Author:Christian Bale
“I told him the truth, that I loved him and didn't regret anything about our lives together. But do we ever 'tell the truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth, so help me God' as my father used to say, to those we love? Or even to ourselves? Don't even the best and most fortunate of lives hint at other possibilities, at a different kind of sweetness and, yes, bitterness too? Isn't this why we can't help feeling cheated, even when we know we haven't been?” KnowsKindDifferentWholeHelpingFeelingsTogetherUsedFatherOur LivesHavensPossibilityRegretFortunateHelp MeTelling The TruthBitternessDifferent KindsSweetnessHintsCheatedThose We LoveWhole TruthLife TogetherGod Help MeNothing But The Truth Author:Richard Russo
“But then, life is a constant withering of possibilities. Some are stolen with the lives of people you love. Others are let go, with regret and reluctance and deep, deep sorrow. But there is compensation for lives unlived in the intoxicating joy of knowing that the life you have - right here, right now - if the one you have chosen. There is power in that, and hope.” PeopleIfsLife IsJoyKnowingPossibilityRegretSorrowRight NowLetting GoConstantChosenStolenCompensationReluctanceWitheringDeep Sorrow Author:Emily Maguire
“I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.” WorldHumansChildrenWholeExistencePossibilityRegretWhole WorldGrandchildrenI Regret Author:Maggie Gallagher