Irreversible Decisions Quotes

Like wars, forest fires and bad marriages, really stupid laws are much easier to begin than they are to end.

Some of the worst mistakes of my life have been haircuts.

But it was too late now. A lifetime too late. A million wishes too late.

Nothing we do is inevitable, but everything we do is irreversible.

Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.

Everything you've ever read of mine is first-draft. This is one of the peculiarities of the comics field. By the time you're working on chapter three of your masterwork, chapter one is already in print. You can't go back and suddenly decide to make this character a woman, or have this one fall out of a window.

That was the year, my twenty-eighth, when I was discovering that not all of the promises would be kept, that some things are in fact irrevocable and that it had counted after all, every evasion and every procrastination, every mistake, every word, all of it.

There is no way in which we can retrospectively erase the Treaty of Vienna or the Great Irish Famine. It is a peculiar feature of human actions that, once performed, they can never be recuperated. What is true of the past will always be true of it.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

It is impossible to erase my choices.

Once you are dancing with the devil, the prettiest capers won't help you.

We know that we can't undo our whole lives.

There's always instances where you want those throws back, but the worst part about it is that I can't redo it.

I wouldn't change the past for nothing.

ʺYour hair was beautiful too. All of you. You were amazing when we first met, and somehow, inexplicably, youʹve come even farther. Youʹve always been pure, raw energy, and now you control it. Youʹre the most amazing woman Iʹve ever met, and Iʹm glad to have had that love for you in my life. I regret losing it.ʺ He grew pensive. ʺI would give anything—anything—in the world to go back and change history. To run into your arms after Lissa brought me back. To have a life with you. Itʹs too late, of course, but Iʹve accepted it.ʺ

There is no rewind button on the BETAMAX of life.

I shaved my eyebrows in 10th grade.

You're young. Maybe there'll be time for a do-over if you don't get it right the first time. But there are no guarantees. There will come a time as it has for me when there's no time for a do-over.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

I must say, I am trying to live my life with a sharpie marker approach. You can't erase the strokes you've made, but each step is much bolder and more deliberate.

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

I often think we do not take this business of photography in a sufficiently serious spirit. Issuing a photograph is like marriage: you can only undo the mischief with infinite woe.

Those split-second decisions that you can't take back, that's what I need to continue to improve.

There's some things that no amount of money can get me to do.

It's not about knowing who you are. It's about thinkin you got there without takin anything with you. Your notions about startin over. or anybody's. You dont start over. That's what it's about. Every step you take is forever. You can't make it go away. None of it.