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Quotes About Regret

What good can come from meeting death with tears? If a man Is sorry for himself, he doubles death.
~ Euripides
All men know their children Mean more than life. If childless people sneer- Well, they've less sorrow. But what lonesome luck!
~ Euripides
I should have been, I don't know, a con-man, a robber or a prostitute. But it was vanity that made me choose painting, vanity and chance.
~ Francis Bacon
The errors of young men are the ruin of business, but the errors of aged men amount to this, that more might have been done, or sooner.
~ Francis Bacon
When a man reaches his maturity in understanding and in years, the feeling comes over him that his father was wrong to beget him.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
Really, Channing," remonstrated Alexia, "did you have to eat the man's dog? I am convinced you will experience terrible indigestion.
~ Gail Carriger
The ruin of most men dates from some idle moment.
~ George Stillman Hillard
Youth, ah, Youth! all men's desire and sorrow.
~ Louise Imogen Guiney
Hen nights should be banned. You're honour-bound to behave atrociously, then feel terribly ashamed afterwards. (This Charming Man)
~ Marian Keyes
My old man said, 'Follow the van, Don't dilly-dally on the way!' But I dillied and dallied, dallied and dillied, Lost the van and don't know where to roam.
~ Marie Lloyd
They did more than take our youth away. They also took away the men we were going to be.
~ Martin Amis
Were a man to live as long as Methuselah, and to spend all his days in the highest delights sin can offer, one hour of the anguish and tribulation that must follow, would far outweigh them.
~ Matthew Henry
Dead men never pick up their trophies.
~ Michael Weisskopf
She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.
~ Milan Kundera
This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun.
~ Mitch Albom
Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.
~ Neil Gaiman
I watched the needle take another man.
~ Neil Young
The only men I love are dead.
~ Nicki Minaj
I regretted not being a person in shape many a day while we were making this film [Swiss Army Man].
~ Paul Dano
Men in their late 50s often make very bad decisions.
~ Paul Theroux
Comfort his family with a telegram, we regret to inform you we lost a man, but we gave him the highest medal of the land.
~ Phil Ochs
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
~ R. Scott Bakker
The only love from which a man never recuperates is the one he never had. The eternal and untarnished illusion.
~ Rae Foley
My father did not rock. He just earned and hated. Don't end up like this man.
~ Henry Rollins