Quotes About Regret

A bloody good thing, but too late.

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

In general, pride is at the bottom of all great mistakes.

When death, the great reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

I think part of the sadness of Hamlet is given different circumstances, this guy had the capability of being something really great and not ending up poisoned on the ground.

Every sixty seconds you spend upset is a minute of happiness you'll never get back.

Once upon a time there was a lady. She had no children, and no happiness either. And at first she cried for a long time, but then she became wicked.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late.

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

Happiness is unrepented pleasure.

We look before and after, And pine for what is not; Our sincerest laughter With some pain is fraught; Our sweetest songs are those that tell of saddest thought.

There is no greater pain than to remember, in our present grief, past happiness.

Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights - the right to swear and curse at your fate!

To while away the day contemplating evils that might have been is to poison the happiness we already have.

To fill the hour; that is happiness to fill the hour, and leave no crevice for a repentance or an approval.

Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.

forgive me also that I didn't fight like Lord Byron for the happiness of captive peoples that I watched only risings of the moon and museums

The worst thing you can possibly do is worrying and thinking about what you could have done.

We know that happiness is short-lived, that we fail to cherish it when it is within our grasp and value it only when it has vanished forever.

No sorrow is deeper than the remembrance of happiness when in misery.

Nothing blocks happiness like happiness remembered.

There is no greater grief than to find no happiness, but happiness in what is past.

It was too late for happiness - but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I haved lived on - don't take it from me now