Quotes About Regret

Have I not reason to lament What man has made of man?

When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

A ruined man fell from her hands like a ripe fruit, to lie rotting on the ground.

I've been a bad, bad girl - I've been careless with a delicate man.

I regret being the richest man in the world because that position attracts undeserved publicity.

I have never yet heard any middle-aged man or woman who worked with his or her brains express any regret for the passing of youth.

A mighty good sausage stuffer was spoiled when the man became a poet.

A man says to the doctor: "What's the good news?" "You've got 24 hours to live." He says: "What's the bad news?" The doctor says: "We should have told you yesterday."

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

How can I shed tears for a man I should never have allowed to touch me in any way?

Two aged men, that had been foes for life, Met by a grave, and wept - and in those tears They washed away the memory of their strife; Then wept again the loss of all those years.

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth

Guilt is a timorous thing ere perpetration; despair alone makes guilty men be bold.

The man hath penance done, And penance more will do.

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

Alas, why will a man spend months trying to hand over his liberty to a woman--and the rest of his life trying to get it back again?

The man who once cursed his fate, now curses himself - and pays his psychoanalyst.

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

He looked at her as a man looks at a faded flower he has gathered , with difficulty recognizing the beauty for which he picked and ruined it.

Well, you may not know this, but there's things that gnaw at a man worse than dying.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Old men's prayers for death are lying prayers, in which they abuse old age and long extent of life. But when death draws near, not one is willing to die, and age no longer is a burden to them.