Quotes About Regret

All I did there, after all, was to bemoan what I could not bemoan upon your breast.

I was wise, if you like, because I was prepared for death at any moment, but not because I had taken care of everything that was given to me to do, rather because I had done none of it and could not even hope ever to do any of it.

A false ring of the night bell, once answered — it can never be made right.

But that is past and should remain deep in the past

On se bojao da ?e ga stid nadživeti.

In a way, I was already punished before I knew I had done anything wrong.

Keines der Mädchen hat mich enttäuscht, nur ich sie beide. Mein Urteil über sie ist heute genau das gleiche, wie damals als ich sie heiraten wollte.

Whatever it's actually been, I felt declassed; people who have not lazed away at least part of their time up to their twenty-fifth year are greatly to be pitied, for it's my belief that it's not the money you have earned that you take with you into your grave, but your idle time.

Wie ein Hund! sagte er, es war, als sollte die Scham ihn überleben.

antes de cada uno de sus estallidos de contrición volvía los ojos para comprobar si los espectadores eran numerosos.

he had acted with no thought at all for what might follow and had been made to suffer for it.

Your room was slightly disturbed today, and in a sense it was my fault; it was done by strangers and against my will, and yet, as I say, it was my fault; that's why I wanted to ask your pardon for.

Auch ich habe Dich sicher oft mit Worten gekränkt, aber dann wußte ich es immer, es schmerzte mich, aber ich konnte mich nicht beherrschen, das Wort nicht zurückhalten, aber ich bereute es schon, während ich es sagte.

The time allotted to you is so short that if you lose one second you have already lost your whole life, for it is no longer, it is always just as long as the time you lose.

It seemed as if the shame was to outlive him

My grandfather used to say, Life is amazingly short. Now, looking back, it all appears so crowded together that I can hardly see how a young man could, for example, make up his mind to ride to the next village without fearing that, even without any special misfortunes, a normal, contentedly spent life might entirely run its course long before such a journey was complete.

Il craint que la honte ne lui survive

If ever that door offers itself to me again, I swore, I will go in out of this dust and heat, out of this dry glitter of vanity, out of these toilsome futilities. I will go and never return. This time I will stay... I swore it and when the time came — I DIDN'T GO.

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

One only dies once, and if one does not die well, a good opportunity is lost and will not present itself again.

There's not a day that William and I don't wish that she was... we don't wish that she was still around, and we wonder what kind of a mother she would be now, and what kind of a public role she would have, and what a difference she would be making.

When we went to America, Robin Williams came to the gig, and Mike Myers had lunch with us and wanted to write a film for us. We're idiots - we turned it down. I think we were just sick of each other at that point. When you get famous, it takes some time to realise it isn't going to be good.

I didn't get to meet Hank Williams. I was in the Air Force on Okinawa when he passed away.

I willingly took John Lennon's life. What I did was despicable.