Quotes About Regret

One discovers a friend by chance, and cannot but feel regret that 20 or 30 years of life may have been spent without the least knowledge of him.

Sometimes I lie awake at night, and wonder if my life would be different if I had to do it over... Then a voice comes to me out of the dark that says, "boy, there's an original thought!

Because I killed a guy in real life, and because my character kills a guy onstage, they said I could never do anything this great again. I resented that.

Life is, to some extent, an extended dialogue with your future self about how exactly you are going to let yourself down over the coming years.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

There was a positive side to not trying at something: you could always pretend that your life would have been different if you had.

How do I explain a life that has lasted for billions of years? It is almost as if I must start with an apology for being alive when everyone I once knew is dead.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

When you reach the end of your life - trust me, you won't look back and savor the moments you spent alone.

When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

I never really look at life and worry about missed opportunities.

"While you live,Drink!—for, once dead, you never shall return."

What is past is past, there is a future left to all men, who have the virtue to repent and the energy to atone.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

There was a young lady named Mae Who smoked without stopping all day; As pack followed pack, Her lungs first turned black, And eventually rotted away.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

gave Garak some of the best years of my life.

As the survivors returned to Confederate lines, Lee met them and sobbed, "It's all my fault this time."158 It was.159

A trouble - nothing as beautiful as a sorrow - rose to the surface of his mind, displayed its ungainliness and sank. Its precise nature he did not ask himself, for his hour was not yet, but the hint was appalling, and, hero though he was, he longed to be a little boy again, and to stroll half awake for ever by the colourless sea.

He knew he was going to die but he thought this little thing might provide him with a nothing stool way off in the corner of heaven reserved for fools, people too stupid to come out of the rain. People got to that corner by heaven's back door.

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: 'Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

How nice it would be to be dead if only we could know we were dead. That is what I hate, the not being able to turn round in the grave and to say It is over.