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Quotes About Regret

One of the terrible tragedies, for me, was the fact that my father passed away before he could witness what I achieved.
~ Howard Schultz
I can't die yet - I haven't seen The Jolson Story !
~ Unknown
And we could have been sweethearts, forever and ever, Could have loved a whole lot more, been a little more true.
~ Unknown
Strongest of Oak is the gallows Tighest of knots is the noose Why oh why did I kill that man Now I'll never get loose
~ Unknown
There will always remain more ashes than remorse.
~ Unknown
Remuer les morts avec des fleurs et des larmes par douce vengeance
~ Unknown
Sorry Marion.
~ Unknown
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.
~ Hubert Selby, Jr.
You hope that your teenage self would like and forgive your 50-year-old self.
~ Hugh Laurie
Allez-vous au plus vite - crac ! Oh, désolé, laissez-moi vous mettre une attelle, monsieur.
~ Hugh Laurie
I saw a man this morning Who did not wish to die" Patrick Shaw-Stewart
~ Hugh Laurie
I looked at her and sighed. In another world, I thought to myself, it might have worked. In another world, in another universe, in another time, as two quite different people, we really might have been able to put all of this behind us, take off to some sun-drenched Caribbean island, and have sex and pineapple juice, non-stop, for a year.
~ Hugh Laurie
I went through life like an idiot for a great deal of the time, saying there's nothing I would change. That was a very arrogant thing to say. There's a lot I would change. There are people I would have steered clear of.
~ Hugh Leonard
Merk dies allein: nicht eine einzige Stunde kommt zweimal im Leben, Nicht ein Wort, nicht eines Blickes Ungreifbares Nichts ist je Ungeschehn zu machen, was Du getan hast, mußt du tragen, So das Lächeln wie den Mord!
~ Hugo von Hofmannsthal
I should never have switched from Scotch to Martinis.
~ Humphrey Bogart
Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.
~ Hungarian proverb
No More Games. No More Bombs. No More Walking. No More Fun. No More Swimming. 67. That is 17 years past 50. 17 more than I needed or wanted. Boring. I am always bitchy. No Fun — for anybody. 67. You are getting Greedy. Act your old age. Relax — This won't hurt
~ Hunter S. Thompson
Three years ago, we sold, donated, or discarded over 70% of our family's possessions. We removed clothes, furniture, decorations, cookware, tools, books, toys, plus anything else we could find in our home that was not immediately useful or beautiful. The result has been a completely transformed life and lifestyle. It is a decision we have never regretted.
~ Hyrum W. Smith
I've deprived my family in order to buy books. No doubt there is a special punishment in hell for such self-indulgence. Perhaps I shall be struck with blindness among the rarest known to men.
~ Unknown
Hope is a place best not forgotten
~ Unknown
Hope is a place best not forgotten' - Iain Cameron Williams
~ Unknown
One should never regret one's excesses, only one's failures of nerve.
~ Iain M. Banks
People were always sorry. Sorry they had done what they had done, sorry they were doing what they were doing, sorry they were going to do what they were going to do; but they still did whatever it is. The sorrow never stopped them; it just made them feel better. And so the sorrow never stopped.
~ Iain M. Banks