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Quotes About Regret

Twice today I've got to play Hamlet, this great part that I shall never play again. And I can't do it today. I could do it tomorrow, or next week, but I can't do it now.
~ John Gielgud
He heard you in the chapel and gave you more time to make things better. Time to say what you needed to say, do what you needed to do. It wasn't a joke! It was divine mercy, and you blew it! You were given what billions of people beg for, and you have the audacity to be angry about it?
~ John Goode
Where is my chance to be somebody's Peter Van Houten?' He hit the steering wheel weakly, the car honking as he cried. He leaned his head back, looking up. 'I hate myself I hate myself I hate this I hate this I disgust myself I hate it I hate it I hate it just let me fucking die.
~ John Green
I felt the unfairness of it, the inarguable injustice of loving someone who might have loved you back but can't due to deadness.
~ John Green
I know so many last words. But I will never know hers.
~ John Green
I've gotten really hot since you went blind.
~ John Green
So fallen! so lost! the light withdrawnWhich once he wore!The glory from his gray hairs goneForevermore!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all sad words of tongue and pen the saddest are these, what might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
The saddest thing of word or pen, To know the things that might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
I didn't dare think of the future; the past was still happening.
~ John Grisham
You advised him not to get a lawyer, giving as one of your reasons the opinion that lawyers are a pain in the ass. Gentlemen, the pain is here. -Reggie Love
~ John Grisham
I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.
~ John H. Speke
Invoked a curse and swore (Matt. 26:74; Mark 14:71). The text does not specify on whom Peter called down curses, though the ESV and other translations include "on himself," implying that he was calling for curses to come upon him if he was lying. Alternatives are that he was cursing the ones who were accusing him of knowing Christ or that he was actually cursing Christ, amplifying his sense of guilt. Certainty is not possible.
~ John H. Walton
Tomorrow is soon enough to contemplate the multitude of your sins." He
~ John Hart
It was a good memory, so he drove it down, crushed it. It only made things harder.
~ John Hart
She kept her eyes on Channing when she could; saw the wounded blankness of all who are ruined young.
~ John Hart
This man knocked on the wrong door." A perfect silence, Hunt's heart swelling with respect. "This man died looking for his daughter.
~ John Hart
I wondered if there was any of that boy left in me, or had the cancer, indeed, eaten him all away?
~ John Hart
Because some things should never be forgotten." He smoothed the girl's unruly hair. "Not if we hope to live better lives." *
~ John Hart
Gentlemen, it is better to have died as a small boy than to fumble this football.
~ John Heisman
What a folly to dread the thought of throwing away life at once, and yet have no regard to throwing it away by parcels and piecemeal.
~ John Howe
We stopped being perfect around the time when Eve picked the apple and started coming on to Adam. That
~ John Humphrys