#Regret

"Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?"

"Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today."

"We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future."

"I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I'd been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale'd have been good. If [by doing this] I become that, then so be it."

"I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words,"muttered Magnus."

"You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons."

"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."

"Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you."

"Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers."

"No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found."

"Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?"

"Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it."

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."