Quotes About Regret

I did 'Degrassi' for five years in Toronto, and I made the decision to quit the show to go to theatre school, which a lot of people thought I was really crazy to do, but it was one of those major decisions in my life that I haven't regretted - hopefully I won't! I really wanted to go to school.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I made driving mistakes in Sochi that cost me gold, and I'll torture myself for the rest of my life about that!

Sometimes I think there ought to be a coat of arms for all of us who listen to Oberst's band Bright Eyes past the age of twenty-six. 'With Love and Shame,' the motto would read. The handwriting would be the cramped and tortured scribble of a high school freshman.

Looking back, I wince at the careless way I tossed out my opinions.

History is the sum total of things that could have been avoided.

I don't know whether it was my fault or someone else's fault, but I was extremely disappointed that my first film was a total washout.

Do you ever achieve total forgiveness after screwing up?

Walt: Do you miss the good old days? Gracie: How old? Walt: When we were old enough to be good. Gracie: We were never that old, Wally. Or that young.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Not that it mattered. The people who were dead were still dead.

think the mistake I made was in not admitting from the start that I loved you, not her. And I won't—" His confession came out so casually, more an explanation

I assume you know me from somewhere," he said. "Did I ruin your sister's reputation? If so, I'm afraid she was quite forgettable.

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there

Her greatest wish I should think was that I would remain exactly as I was, and how I regret that that was not to be. It was only for her roses that she wished for change, the strange moment of loral enchantment when the branch of a rose mutates, and shows a "sport," something new arising from the known rose. A leap in beauty.

Do you know the grief of it? I hope not. The grief that does not age, that does not go away with time, like most griefs and human matters. That is the grief that is always there, swinging a little in a derelict house, my father, my father. I cry out for him.

Something had happened to that sorrow. It had gone rancid in him, he thought; it had boiled down to something he didn't understand. The pith of sorrow was in the upshot a little seed of death.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

Little sins of omission that loom large now. You could go mad.

Eine Idee, die einmal gedacht wird, kann nie wieder zurückgenommen werden.

185. It Is Getting So Dark Whatever people may think of my book, I still regret that it ever came to light.

The Broby minister sat in his desolate home and wept in desperation. She had made him young. Would he now get old? Would the evil spirit come back, and would he become despicable, as despicable as he had been?

How do you honor a witch who betrayed you?