Quotes About Regret

I noticed that in a corner, across from where they ate with such innocent relish, sitting forlorn and abandoned, was the ghost of their son. He had lost both of his arms, one side of his face was squashed, and both his eyes had burst. He had bluish wings. He was the saddest ghost in the house.

Most of all, I miss that feeling when you go to sleep at night and when you wake up in the morning. It's that feeling that everything is all rightin the world. You know, that amazing feeling that you're whole, that you've got everything you want, that you aren't missing anything. Sometimes when I wake up, I get it for just a moment. It lasts a few seconds, but then I remember what happened, and how nothing has been the same since

You'll miss me, yes you will You won't know how much until I'm gone Like the sweet memory of something you used to love

It's a little too little It's a little too late I'm a little too hurt And there's nothin' left that I've gotta say You can cry to me baby But there's only so much I can take Ah, it's a little too little It's a little too late

Plain blunt people may be a little afraid of formal music. But I have lived to regret that failure. Every man [or woman], barbarian or civilised, should play at least one musical instrument. And have a trade: cobbling or carpentry or whatever.

He didn't regret growing older, it was a privilege denied to many.

He watched her as she held the door for Maggie to pass through with the soup. Her hair was the color of rain-wet wheat. He had chosen her sister, Delia Crawford; Delia the dark one; Delia who died.

before he could stop himself he heard himself say:

I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

Grief is the agony of an instant, the indulgence of grief the blunder of a life.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

Non chiedere mai scusa quando esterni un sentimento. Nel momento in cui lo fai, chiedi scusa per la verità.

Most people die with their music still locked up inside them.

You may delay, but time will not, and lost time is never found again.

Life's tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late.

Life's Tragedy is that we get old to soon and wise too late.

Many men die at twenty-five and aren't buried until they are seventy-five.

Many people die at twenty five and aren't buried until they are seventy five.

Never ruin an apology with an excuse.

A slip of the foot you may soon recover, but a slip of the tongue you may never get over.

Life biggest tragedy is that we get old too soon and wise too late

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves if a child died under it; my example showing that the regret may be the same either way, and that, therefore, the safer should be chosen.

Some people die at age 25 and aren't buried until they are 75.