Quotes About Regret

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting? Stephen Levine

Better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Don't worry about failures, worry about the chances you miss when you don't even try.

He turned to pull the door closed and the warm air from the hall rushed through the narrow opening again. As he saw the yellow paper, the pencil flying, scooped off the desk and, unimpeded by the glassless window, sail out into the night and out of his life, Tom Benecke burst into laughter and then closed the door behind him.

It is foolish for Rubens to show her simpering. They were clearly guilty and did her much sorrow.

May you find what you are searching for, my friend. – I already have and lost it in the finding.

If I had eyes in the back of my head, I would have told you you looked good as I walked away.

I would turn on the TV, but its so embarassing.

If this day in the lifetime of a hundred years is lost, will you ever touch it with your hands again? The

Curse him to eternal damnation! Yes! Of course!" came the emotional reply. "Don't curse him," I said softly. "Remember--he's only a machine, just an imperfect mirror of ourselves. We made him what he is--the disease, the cancer." There was nothing else to say, because that left only cursing ourselves, and we were already cursed.

We don't fear death because we lose tomorrow, but because we lose yesterday, with its sweet poignancy, its memories of growing children, of friends and lovers, of all that we have known. Nobody else has really been there in the way we have. And when the lights go out for us, for you or me, the lights go out in that world, too.

There were points in my life where I felt oddly irresistible to women. I'm not in that state now and that makes me sad.

deep regret, "none of this would ever have happened.

Regret piles up around us like books we have never read.

I didn't reach out, and she was gone.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

I still love you," Aaron says softly, "I wish I can just turn it off, or that it would have faded away. I wish I could say I'm not the same man I was when you left me, that I've changed. But I am who I am, Caitlin. And all the magic in the world wouldn't change that.

Somebody asked me once how I felt about all that," Bird said. "I told them, 'Hell, I'm jealous of them too. I'm jealous because I never got to play with a Larry Bird.

She left behind her giant M, she's not getting my cabinet" -Toby

Queen Mary was very beautiful, but she was very unfortunate and unhappy.

If I had to fall from Cassiel's grace, at least I know it took a courtesan worthy of Kings to do it.

It's like you miss a year of your life,

I still feel really bad about it," said Jessie. "That's good," said Grandma.

I felt as if this pain would never be appeased, that it had me in its grip for ever, that it would prevent me from devoting myself to anything else, and that I was allowing it to do so. I think that is what they call being consumed with remorse.