Quotes About Regret

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

But there are forces that don't let you turn back and undo things, because to do so would be to deny what is already in motion, to unwrite and erase passages, to shorten the arc of a story you don't own. If I could walk into the house and say, "Froggy, I'm sorry I left." If I could hug him and unbutton his shirt and pick the petals from his hair. If I could do that, there would be no reason for me to fight this war.

I don't deserve this. I have forgiven myself. What I did to you was not so bad. It happens.

The historical relationship between Christians and Jews for most of the two thousand years of Christianity has not been good and it's been mostly persecution by Christians of Jews -- not all the time, not every place, but mostly it's been that. I think that's just a terribly regretful thing. I don't see it anywhere in the Scriptures that I read, that Christians are to persecute Jews. I think it's been quite damaging. I think it's been a bad witness.

The central Christian thesis is to love. Love God, all your heart, mind, soul and flesh and love your neighbor as yourself -- that's the central thesis. It doesn't say anything about hating people anywhere in there, other than that that's not a good thing. And you're even to pray for your enemy. There have been many of us as Christians who have failed to practice the faith as it's called upon and that has been damaging to the faith and I regret that.

Quien no siente el deseo de volver a vivir la vida es porque la ha desperdiciado.

I've been in love and you'll never know

you don't have to be dead to haunt. Parents, songs, exes.

We didn't find him for three days because we didn't realize he was missing. That's the saddest part of this story. He'd hanged himself from a tree, one of several that grew in a small sliver of land between my parents' house and the neighbors', out by a swing set untouched for years. He timbered over like a sapling when my father cut him down, his body gone stiff.

The scary part is I knew exactly how bad you were for me and yet that didn't stop me from loving you

I discover her anew in each black cat I see ... And it is only when I try to touch her, to make her linger yet awhile, that she dies all over again. A snowflake in my hand...

My heart is empty. But my brain - my brain is full. It races with thoughts of what could have been.

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

The manic pursuit of success cost me everything I could love: my wife, my three children, some friends I would have liked to grow old with.

All he cares about is going out there with his Jack Daniels bottle. Nothing has changed. That's kind of sad. If David was doing better than he used to be, then that would be different. But it was a joke and he made it that way.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now.

There is no escape from yesterday because yesterday has deformed us, or been deformed by us. The mood is of no importance. Deformation has taken place.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

It is better to have loved and lost than never to have lost at all.

A man at five and thirty should no more regret not having had a happier childhood than he should regret not having been born a prince of the blood.

I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

God forgive me, I was sorry to hear that Sir W Pens maid Betty was gone away yesterday, for I was in hopes to have had a bout with her before she had gone, she being very pretty. I have also a mind to my own wench, but I dare not, for fear she should prove honest and refuse and then tell my wife.

I saw the girl of the house, being very pretty, go into a chamber, and I went in after her and kissed her.