Quotes About Regret

Turning back the pages of my sweet shattered dream, I wonder if she'll ever do the same; And the thing that I call living is just being satisfied With knowing I've got no one left to blame.

Anger and Folly walk cheek by jole; Repentance treads on both their Heels.

When you decide to graduate from your regrets and disappointments, there is a brilliant career waiting for you called LIFE.

The rich death-colours of autumn were like an infinitely sad melody, like a sad song of unavailing regret; but in those passionate tints, in the red and the gold of the apples, in the varied hue of the fallen leaves, there was still something which forbade one to forget that in the death and decay of nature there is always the beginning of other life.

May you live to be a hundred years With one extra year to repent.

Morning after Halloween: I'm never eating candy again. An hour later: Oh look, candy!

I wish life had an Undo function.

Time engraves our faces with all the tears we have not shed.

I think I just ate my willpower.

We never repent of having eaten too little.

Guilt, grief, regret cut deeper than the dimensions of the soul itself

Guilt sticks like glue.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

Here's to the fish he caught, Here's to the one that got away, And here's to the one he bought.

The lovely flowers embarrass me, They make me regret I am not a bee –

Gaming is the son of avarice and the father of despair.

Panting to help the dear ones and yet not knowing how, lest any voice bereave them... One who only said "I am sorry" helped me the most when father ceased — it was too soon for language.

Regret is the glue that makes grief stick around for a lifetime.

If guilt or regret is an essential part of your grief, you will never stop grieving.

Soul sells life for the price of heartache.

Such is the human race. Often it does seem such a pity that Noah and his party did not miss the boat.

Io non credo alle fiamme e allo zolfo dell'inferno; ma in momenti come questo rimpiango la mia miscredenza. No, in momenti come questo io quasi ci credo. Deve esistere per forza un inferno, perché in nessun altro posto voi potrete ricevere una punizione adeguata ai vostri crimini. Fino a quando esisterà gente come voi, l'inferno sarà un'esigenza essenziale del cosmo.

I am a sick man - oh, not my body. It is my soul, my brain. I seem to have lost all values. I care for nothing. If you had been this way a few months ago, it would have been different. It is too late, now.

He whirled with fierce passion on me: 'Don't you ever let yourself grow old, lad. Die when you're young, or you'll come to this. I'm tellin' you sure. Seven an' eighty years am I, an' served my country like a man. Three good conduct stripes and the Victoria Cross, an' this is what I get for it. I wish I was dead, I wish I was dead. Can't come any too quick for me, I tell you.