Quotes About Regret

The past cannot return. If I have wounded you, forgive. If no more your breast will yearn To warm this straying heart, oh live The dreams that warm it yet, The memories it would not forget. There is no strife, all that has gone. There is no pain, the will is set. There are hours for thought to feed on, But none to keep alive regret. However sadly a heart may yearn, The past cannot, cannot return.

Hindsight — a.k.a. I was a fool, such a fool!

Mornings smell and taste like fresh, raw life; Night reeks of dreams. Afternoons are scentless, save for tea & 3pm regret.

Time is the only thief we can't get justice against.

The best time to plant a tree was twenty years ago. The next best time is now.

We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.

Weekend forecast: mostly drunk with a chance of regret

A hangover is the wrath of grapes.

I carried away much wine, and the wine had previously carried away my memory; so that all was hiccup and happiness for the last hour or so...

i vomit confusion & butterflies i sweat fear and i bleed dread i fall deaf from society's lies i gag on metallic tastes of pain i run from the reek of regret i save my minutes & lose my hours i dance on the minefield of mind i freeze my worries for later...

After all the stupid things I've done in my life, hope I don't die just because I touched my face.

Drinking and driving: there are stupider things, but it's a very short list.

You booze, you cruise, you lose.

Let love's apologies wait not 'til death's doorway.

If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call you could make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?

Guilt is a blanket of stones.

He marries best who puts it off until it is too late.

Nobody can get across now! We'll have to stay here days and days, and we've got nothing to eat, and we'll freeze to death at night, and I didn't even tell my dad I was coming here, and I'll get a whipping when I get home!" Tom smiled thinly and tried to make a joke out of it. "I thought you were going to freeze to death," he said.

All sorts of reflections of this nature passed through my mind—for as I grow older I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me...

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.

You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube.

The biggest regrets we will have in life are not what we've done, but what we haven't done

The word came into her mind just as quickly as it had done yesterday. "Crap." She hadn't been able to hold it back then—it had flown out of her mouth like an angry and hotheaded little swallow, and in a flash it had changed into a big cloud.

a slap and a night's disgrace. But when he sneaked into the kitchen and stole a hamburger patty from the table he got a trouncing. He