Quotes About Regret

And I really was sorry. And I know that she believed me. But when that didn't make any difference, and there was nothing but a bad silence on the phone, I really knew it was too late.

Please, don't do this to yourself, Charlie." But I did do it to myself. Like I do every year on my birthday. "I'm sorry.

She would be alive if I were born on a day that didn't snow. I would do anything to make this go away. I miss her terribly. I have to stop writing now because I am too sad.

I know that I brought this all on myself. I know that I deserve this. I'd do anything not to be this way. I'd do anything to make it up to everyone. And to not have to see a psychiatrist, who explains to me about being 'passive aggressive'. And to not have to take the medicine he gives me, which is too expensive for my dad. And to not have to talk about bad memories with him. Or be nostalgic about bad things.

Verrazzano must have been turning in his grave. (Except that he didn't have one because he'd been eaten.)

It is perhaps, plausible that a man in this situation, impressed with the unconcern of the universe, should see the innumerable flaws of his life and have them taste wickedly in his mind and wish for another chance.

He had performed his mistakes in the dark, so he was still a man.

nothing is so much to be regretted as the universe.

I've pursued things long after they were over. Always I wanted someone to stop me.

It is perhaps the consummate irony," Arthur Moore writes, "that at each step up from savagery the human race has regarded the fruits of progress with a degree of misgiving and often longed against reason for a return to a simpler condition.

We can't make you do anything, but we can make you wish you had.

I sometimes think the biggest price we pay for war is what might have been.

Zeus sighed heavily. 'I wish, all those years ago, Prometheus hadn't persuaded me to make mankind,' he said. 'I knew it was a mistake.

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

Et in arcadia ego.' Why should they notice it? Its shadow will be on them soon enough and they in turn will be wagging fingers at their children and saying, 'I too once lived in arcadia, you know …' and their children will not listen either.

pollute any happiness or satisfaction he might have enjoyed as king. Consigned to the Dust After many years of peace and prosperity in Thebes, Cadmus and

And he, despite the gallons of free whisky on offer, was wishing himself violently elsewhere.

The land claims what you leave behind.

When you are faced with the possibility of an early death, it makes you realise that there are lots of things you want to do before your life is over.

Because everyday could be my last I have the desire to make the most of each and every minute. I try to lead as normal a life l as possible and not think about my condition or regret the thing it prevents me from doing which are not that many .my goal is simple it is complete understanding of the universe. Why it is as it is and why it exists at all.

Son, I don't think you understand. These boys killed my dog.

High school isn't a very important place. When you're going you think it's a big deal, but when it's over nobody really thinks it was great unless they're beered up.

Sometimes dead is better

What can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.