Quotes about Regret

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result.

We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result

I'm sure there are people who, even suddenly understanding the true situation, would have felt no more than a twinge of regret or vague guilt as they continued to sit in embarrassed silence beside the grieving, confused man. On the other hand, I am equally certain there are people who would have been far more sensitive in the first place, who may have recognized that a deeper problem existed and reached out to understand and help before I did.

God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her

The love we do not show here on Earth is the only thing that hurts us in the after-life.

There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.

I'm sick to death—Oh when shall I get loose From this vain world, the abode of guilt and sorrow! —And yet methinks a beam of light breaks in On my departing soul. Alas! I fear 95 I've been too hasty. O ye powers that search The heart of man, and weigh his inmost thoughts, If I have done amiss, impute it not!— The best may err, but you are good, and—oh!  [Dies.]

I was still in love with her. And I always would be. I just wanted to live long enough to correct my mistakes and redeem myself in her eyes, if I could.

All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…

Gut', sagte er und zwinkerte mir zu. 'Mach nicht denselben Fehler wie ich. Versteck dich nicht ewig hier drin.

This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.

Remember that lost time does not return.