Quotes About Regret

The tragic solemnity of existence strikes us with terrible force on that morning when we wake to find the mournful words "too late" ringing in our ears.

And if I don't be there by morning, she'll know that I must've spent the night in jail.

Nay," cried Bingley, "this is too much, to remember at night all the foolish things that were said in the morning.

You'll be scandalized in the morning when you can think again.

I've paid my price, a high price, I watched my mother die. I look at everything I've been given now as a form of compensation. A person who has regrets is a person who casts anchors.

I think I got him hooked on climbing when I gave a slide show at Darmouth. So there's probably another mother out there who hates me.

The mother of three notoriously unruly youngsters was asked whether or not she'd have children if she had it to do over again. 'Yes', she replied 'but not the same ones.'

the first day i shot dope was on a sunday. i had just come home from church got mad at my mother cuz she got mad at me. u dig?

Like my mother, I was always saying, 'I'll fix my life one day.' It became clear when I saw her die without fulfilling her dreams that my time was now or maybe never.

You know the passage where Scarlett voices her happiness that her mother is dead, so that she can't see what a bad girl Scarlett has become? Well, that's me.

The best part of you ran down your mother's legs.

The nightingales are sobbing in The orchards of our mothers, And hearts that we broke long ago Have long been breaking others; Tears are round, the sea is deep: Roll them overboard and sleep.

I know Mother named me after a railroad man, but it's too late now, I'm afraid. Much, much too late.

My father invented a cure for which there was no disease and unfortunately my mother caught it and died of it.

I wish either my father or my mother, or indeed both of them, as they were in duty both equally bound to it, had minded what they were about when they begot me.

I was Hannah Montana's mother ... Where did I go wrong?

The crime of a mother is a heavy burden.

My mother wasn't rational those last years; if she had been, she would have been horrified by her own behavior.

My mother had lived in London since I was little, so she never got to see my school plays and stuff.

Muggs was always sorry, Mother said, when he bit someone, but we could never understand how she figured this out. He didn't act sorry.

When I look back at The Judy Garland Show, I have such mixed feelings. It broke my mother's heart when they canceled it.

Assoon as I stepped out of my mother's womb on to dry land, I realized that I had made a mistake?but the trouble with children is that they are not returnable.

My mother had a look on her face that I'll never forget. It was one of complete despair and horror, for losing Bing, for being so foolish as to think she could use faith to change fate.

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.