Quotes About Regret

Yes, I said, but if aging were so valuable, why do people always say, "Oh, if I were young again." You never hear people say, "I wish I were sixty-five." He smiled. "You know what that reflects? Unsatisfied lives. Unfulfilled lives. Lives that haven't found meaning. Because if you've found meaning in your life, you don't want to go back. You want to go forward. You want to see more, do more. You can't wait until sixty-five.

The eighties happened. The nineties happened. Death and sickness and getting fat and going bald happened. I traded lots of dreams for a bigger paycheck, and I never even realized I was doing it.

Had it not been for Nightline, Morrie would have died without ever seeing me again. I had no good excuse for this, except the one that everyone these days seems to have. I had become too wrapped up in the siren song of my life. I was busy.

He used the haunting phrase, "Alas for what has been lost.

So often, we push away the voices closest to us. But once they're gone, we reach for them.

Everyone knows they're going to die,' he said again, 'but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Yet here was Morrie talking with the wonder of our college years, as if I'd simply been on a long vacation. ..What happened to me? I once promised I would never work for money, that I would join the Peace Corps, that I would live in beautiful, inspirational places.

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

Everyone knows they're going to die, he said again, but nobody believes it. If we did, we would do things differently.

Reading For One More Day. Nothing interesting happened yet. Exciting to keep reading.

What do you do when the dead return? It is the thing people most fear- yet, in some cases, most desire

My friends, if we tend to the things that are important in life, if we are right with those we love and behave in line with our faith, our lives will not be cursed with the aching throb of unfulfilled business. Our words will always be sincere, our embraces will be tight. We will never wallow in the agony of 'I could have, I should have.' We can sleep in a storm. "And when it's time, our good-byes will be complete.

I know I cannot do this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded. But if Professor Morris Schwartz taught me anything at all, it was this: there is no such thing as "too late" in life. He was changing until the day he said good-bye.

Dying," Morris suddenly said, "is only one thing to be sad over, Mitch. Living unhappily is something else.

Praise for Tuesdays with Morrie

None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

if i could have had another son, i would have liked it to be you

So many times, I had chosen not to be with her. Too busy. Too tires. Don't feel like dealing with it. Church? No thanks. Sinner? Sorry. Come down to visit? Can't do it, maybe next week.

I wasn't there when you died. That's not your fault. I never said good-bye. Such a needless word, she said, when you love somebody.

It's funny, Lorraine said now, as the scene appeared in front of them. You always wonder about your funeral. How big? Who'll show up? In the end it's meaningless. You realize, once you die, that a funeral as for everyone else,not you.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

I knew he was right. Not that I did anything about it.

I never wanted anyone else, he said quietly. I know, she said. I was still in love with you. I know. She nodded. I felt it. Here? he asked. Even here, she said, smiling. That's how strong lost love can be.

It's a quiet theft, how time lures people away.