Quotes About Regret

I think the absence of socks on men wearing suits and brogues is a problem. They'll live to regret that.

A man can spend his whole existence never learning the simple lesson that he has only one life and that if he fails to do what he wants with it, nobody else really cares.

Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.

It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose.

A consciousness of misfortunes arising from a man's own misconduct aggravates their bitterness.

Mad is the man who is forever gritting his teeth against that granite block, complete and changeless, of the past.

I'm so happy with the show. There's nothing in this life I'll ever regret - bad or good. I look back, learn from it, and be a better man the next day.

Only the basic situations in life occur only once, never to return. For a man to be a man, he must be fully aware of this never-to-return. (p.148)

I know I will never have an affair with a married man again.

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives, and create a monster they call Destiny.

Every man has a paradise around him till he sins, and the angel of an accusing conscience drives him from his Eden.

A man's life breath cannot come back again-- no raiders in force, no trading brings it back, once it slips through a man's clenched teeth.

For a man not to achieve the things he has an opportunity to do is such a waste of life.

Men are fools who forget what really matters while time goes by.

Man always thinks about the past before he dies, as if he were frantically searching for proof that he truly lived.

There's shames a man can never reason away, though he looks back and piles up reasons over them forty dozen deep. And maybe those are the shames a man never should reason away.

I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses.

Remember the man who truly repents is never satisfied with his own repentance.

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.

No man is obliged to be what he might have been.

I don't like to leave anything,' the man said. 'I don't like to leave things behind.

Here dead lie we because we did not choose to live and shame the land from which we sprung. Life, to be sure, is nothing much to lose; but young men think it is, and we were young.

It's a long day's drive any way you look at it. With a man who has taken your sins - real and imagined - and stitched them onto the sackcloth of his own soul, it is endless.

The sin That neither God nor man can well forgive.