Quotes About Regret

If only I could tell someone.The humiliation I go throughwhen I think of my pastcan only be described as grace.We are created by being destroyed.

His guilt swelled up, churning like a paddle wheel in his stomach. He wanted desperately to flee. How do you escape something that comes from inside? The revenant, he knew, searched for him.

I know cigarettes can kill & wonder why she wants to die.

There will be no beautiful widow with Persian eyes sitting at your grave. And teary-eyed kids won't be asking: "Papa, papa, can you hear us?

it is sad to fill a grave with a person full of potential yet completely emptied of anymore possibility to try it once again.

I wish that death had spared me until your library had been complete.

We cry for ourselves, don't we? Not for the dead. The dead are past caring.

Death is only tragic if you have tragically wasted your life on meaninglessness.

This place looks like the last scene in Hamlet.

Weeping for the dead's a waste of breath -they're lucky, they can't die again.

And all our yesterdays have lighted fools the way to dusty death.

If i were to lose a friend...then i couldn't die in peace!

They say such nice things about people at their funerals that it makes me sad to realize I'm going to miss mine by just a few days.

The only thing I regret about my life is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I'd make all the same mistakes - only sooner.

He wasn't one who wanted to look back on his life and say "I wish I spent more time in the office."

Being of sound mind I spent every cent I ever had.

JD/Dr Cox: The second you start blaming yourself for people's deaths, there's no coming back.

Regret is the sound of the ghosts of our own making. I will live with mine until I die.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

I have no desire to suffer twice, in reality and then in retrospect.

If men could regard the events of their own lives with more open minds, they would frequently discover that they did not really desire the things they failed to obtain.

Years of happiness can be lost in the foolish gratification of a momentary desire for pleasure.

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance.

By things so achingly small are lives measured and marred.