Quotes About Regret

Oh, God," Wilhelm prayed, "Let me out of my trouble. Let me out of my thoughts, and let me do something better with myself. For all the time I have wasted I am very sorry. Let me out of this clutch and into a different life. For I am all balled up. Have mercy.

I wish my dead days would quit bothering me and leave me alone. The bad stuff keeps coming back, and it's the worst rhythm there is. The repetition of a man's bad self, that's the worst suffering that's ever been known.

The old continued to have one resurgence of foolishness after another, until the organism gave out altogether.

O Lord! he concluded, forgive all these trespasses. Lead me not into Penn Station.

A person can become tired of looking himself over and trying to fix himself up. You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half

He had made mistakes, but he could overlook these. He had been a fool, but that could be forgiven. The time wasted—must be relinquished

And where was that day? Past and dead. Whose humiliating memories were these? His and not his father's. What had he to think back on that he could call good? Very, very little. You had to forgive. First, to forgive yourself, and then, general forgiveness.

Oh shame, shame! Oh crying shame! How can we? Why do we allow ourselves? What are we doing? The last little room of dirt is waiting. Without windows. So for God's sake make a move, Henderson, put forth effort. You, too, will die of this pestilence. Death will annihilate you and nothing will remain, and there will be nothing left but junk...While something still is -- now! For the sake of all, get out!

I once was married," said Padilla when the subject came to that. "In Chihuahua when I was fifteen. I had a kid before I was a man myself." I didn't approve of his boasting that he had left a wife and kid behind in Mexico, but then the tall girl said she had a child too, and maybe the other did also and just didn't say, and so I let the subject pass, since if so many do the same wrong there maybe is something to it that's not right away apparent.

I'm deprived of my children." Wilhelm bit his lip. It was too late to turn away. The anguish struck him. "I pay and pay. I never see them. They grow up without me. She makes them like herself. She'll bring them up to be my enemies

He chased ruin and death even harder than he had chased women. He blew his talent and his health and reached home, the grave, in a dusty slide.

Razmatraju?i sav svoj život, uvidio je da je pogrešno postupio u svemu - u svemu. Život mu je bio, štono kažu, upropašten. Ali pošto on, kao prvo, nije mnogo ni vrijedio, nije bilo ni naro?itog razloga žaljenja. Razmišljaju?i na smrdljivoj sofi o stolje?ima, devetnaestom, šestnaestom, osamnaestom, pronašao je u posljednjem izreku koja mu se svidjela: Žalost je, gospodine, vrsta dokonosti.

Margaret would tell him he did not really want a divorce; he was afraid of it. He cried, "Take everything I've got, Margaret. Let me go to Reno. Don't you want to marry again?" No. She went out with other men, but took his money. She lived in order to punish him.

Life became much more difficult with the Intifada, and my wife and I began to regret that we hadn't rented in the Israeli half. The rent's a little high, but we would have managed with a smaller home.

Sometimes I wake up with such an immense sense of disappointment that I can hardly breathe.

I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.

I should have written that down. - Dilbert

That was us.' I told him we were the kids who'd caused the Burneys' deaths.

What's the n-never-fail universal apology? 'I was badly misinformed, I deeply regret the error, go fuck yourself with this bag of money.

There are some mistakes you can never make up for. There are things you can do wrong you can never do right. That doesn't mean you shouldn't try. You should, but if it becomes clear that you won't succeed, drop it. To force the issue just tortures the people you wronged in the first place. Once you've made your feelings clear, it's better to leave and get on with your life.

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do wel..

That is one of the tragedies of aging, appreciating how many good and interesting people have passed by unknown.

It was not that I felt that I'd done poorly; I just realized that I'd missed the chance to do very well.

I'm not sure what I am anymore... Sometimes I think I'm nothing but what other people have done to me?a big collection of brainwashing, surgeries, and cures... That, and all the mistakes I've made. All the people I've disappointed.