Quotes About Regret

We've all met one or two women, I daresay, it would have been better if we hadn't met." "Now there," observed Cullingford Abbot, "we have a short history of mankind expressed with admirable terseness.

Still, as one ponders that progress from open commensality with Jesus to episcopal banquet with Constantine, is it unfair to regret a progress that happened so fast and moved so swiftly, that was accepted so readily and criticized so lightly? Is

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,Which was my sin, though it were done before?Wilt thou forgive that sin; through which I run,And do run still: though still I do deplore?When thou hast done, thou hast not done,For, I have more.

Wicked is not much worse than indiscreet.

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry.

So what are you planning to do with the rest of your life? Develop a drinking problem. More Scotch, please.

I never wanted this kind of life that Im still living.

Tomorrow, Trubshawe, I am going to get married again, thereby quite possibly making the greatest mistake of my life.

At least half of my life's many mistakes can be safely put down to impetuosity: the other half derive from inertia.

All my life, Following Care along the dusty road, Have I looked back on loveliness and sighed.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

It is always so, every pleasure comes exactly half an hour too late - Life! Life!

It's like when someone dies, the initial stages of grief seem to be the worst. But in some ways, it's sadder as time goes by and you consider how much they've missed in your life. In the world.

It's not the loss of life that makes the death bitter -- it's the obituaries.

There is no part of my life, upon which I can look back without pain.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

I stagnated in prison a long time, and I have wasted most of my life.

I thought, that day I started, I sure would hate to do this all my life, And dammit, that's just what I've gone and done.

..all I left with was the magnitude of my mistake, of my missing you. And I have to watch you from this distance, watch you achieve your dreams, live what seemed like this perfect life.

And all the trips you know you missed And all the lips you never kissed Cut through you like a knife. And now you see stretched out before thee Just another story of a life.

One's only real regret in life is the failure to act.

His life was two lives now: the life he would have and the life he would forever wonder about.

What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell.

Life was so short; so many beautiful things slipped away.