“Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.”
…is a great line from the movie, Jack Ryan: Shadow Recuit.
A few other regret quotes I have accumulated–
“…stained dark with regret and long-time abandonment.”
from Painted From Memories by Barbara Forte.
“…anger dissolved in a sigh of regret…”
from Deceptive Cadence: The Virtuosic Spy by Kathryn Guare.
“…time of early evening when the world seems trapped in melancholy, and all its regrets for all its mislaid plans for the day spelled in the fading clouds…”
from Where She Went by Kate Walbert.
And from The Gray and Guilty Sea-An Oregon Coast Mystery by Scott William Carter.
“…no room for even a sliver of regret”