Quotes About Regret

There is a wealth of unexpressed love in the world. It is one of the chief causes of sorrow evoked by death: what might have been said or might have been done that never can be said or done.

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes.

I am not afraid of death. What I am afraid of is that I will meet the Saviour and He will say, 'You could have done better'

Everyone dies but not everyone lives.

There's no such thing as 'too late!' That's why they invented death!

Death by hanging. That, at least, I thought I would be spared.

That's what makes death so hard--unsatisfied curiosity

Dying is not a sin. Not living is.

I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death.

Death, death. Now I won't be able to write my beautiful memoirs.

it is not good to repudiate the dead because then they do not leave you alone, they are like dogs that bark intermittently at night.

To die is poignantly bitter, but the idea of having to die without having lived is unbearable.

Death - by hanging! - that, at least, I did not deserve. The death part - all right, somebody has to stand for the responsibility. But that - that I did not deserve!

When I think of death, I only regret that I will not be able to see this beautiful country anymore unless the Indians are right and my spirit will walk here after I'm gone.

There's no repentance in the grave.

For good undone, and gifts misspent, and resolutions vain

I was young and foolish then; now I am old and foolisher.

Once one has kissed a cadaver's forehead, there always remains something of it on the lips, an infinite bitterness, an aftertasteof nothingness that nothing can erase.

It is a tragedy that most of us die before we have begun to live.

I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.

Drink today, and drown all sorrow; You shall perhaps not do it tomorrow; Best, while you have it, use your breath; There is no drinking after death.

William Shakespeare, Hamlet

There's one thing that keeps surprising you about stormy old friends after they die - their silence.

He is dead and gone, lady, He is dead and gone; At his head a grass-green turf, At his heels a stone.