Quotes About Regret

the man used names like passwords, all of them with a brief life span. But this time the thief wished that he had owned the name earlier in his life. He spent the first day imagining moments from his past when he could have been 'Astolphe,' when he might have behaved and participated with more ease and subtlety just for having the epaulette of such a name.

I stared at them for a good long time, wondering if they didn't know how to use their wings, of if they just didn't know they had them, until it was too late to save themselves.

It's tragic to go on desiring when one's old.' There were also the haunting possibilities of promises not fulfilled.

Suffering... is not just lots of pain but pain amplified by distinctly human emotions such as regret, self-pity, shame, humiliation, and dread.

I said before that McDonald's serves a kind of comfort food, but after a few bites I'm more inclined to think they're selling something more schematic than that--something more like a signifier of comfort food. So you eat more and eat more quickly, hoping somehow to catch up to the original idea of a cheeseburger or French fry as it retreats over the horizon. And so it goes, bite after bite, until you feel not satisfied exactly, but simply, regrettably, full.

It is impossible to repent of love. The sin of love does not exist.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

I knew it was wrong, but I thought gambling was a venial sin. That's why I didn't confess it to a priest until after I was caught.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

By that sin fell the angels.

Going to the opera, like getting drunk, is a sin that carries its own punishment with it.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

It would almost be sinful to say that I regretted doing 'Charlie's Angels' because it did so much for my career.

Possibly, I should have been a jazz singer from the beginning.

I used to be a great blues singer.

I miss my singing career very much.

I'd rather be dead than singing 'Satisfaction' when I'm forty-five.

I actually don't have a single regret, professionally or domestically. I planned it that way.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.

The song that makes me the happiest when someone sings it is Cher's 'If I Could Turn Back Time.'