Quotes About Regret

In me didst thou exist-and, in my death, see by this image, which is thine own, how utterly thou hast murdered thyself.

There were worse things than dying, and those worse things happened to the people you left behind.

Suicide leaves everyone feeling guilty.

Merciful death. How you love your precious guilt

We don't have to be afraid of dying because it's not really death that scares us. We are afraid of not having lived.

There is something shameful about the death of a play. It does not die with pity, but contempt.

A place where something so terrible had happened shouldn't continue to exist in the world

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

With the benefit of hindsight, the content of that letter has bothered me since her death.

Misers, as death approaches, are heaping up a chest of reasons to stand in more awe of him.

Quaff, oh quaff this kind nepenthe, and forget this lost Lenore!

Fifteen years ago I killed my sister.

I romanced internally about early death till it was too late to die early.

every death diminishes us, but those that leave differences unresolved and things unsaid are the most painful of all.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter what you love or owe. And it's too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

Stephen King, Pet Sematary

Last words are always harder to remember when no one knows that someone's about to die.

He mourns the dead who lives as they desire.

One last look at Athena, and then let the disgrace be complete.

Cuando esto haya terminado ese joven lamentará no sólo haberse metido en política, sino también aprendido a volar— dijo Roosevelt cuando se enteró que había sido nombrado como candidato republicano a las próximas elecciones en las que el sería el candidato demócrata

He was just someone who had grown ugly, old, and embittered, one of billions.

self-laceration is never more than a memory away

A emoção principal, como já disse, era o desejo ardente. E ainda é. Não há alívio para esse desejo nem para a minha noção de mim mesmo como suplicante. Está claro: temo-lo quando estamos com ela e temo-lo quando estamos sem ela. Sendo assim, quem terminou? Fui eu, não indo à festa, ou foi ela ao aproveitar o facto de eu não ter ido?