Quotes about Regret
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.
— Stephen Covey
God knows I didn't mean to fall in love with her
— Ernest Hemingway
There is not a more unhappy being than a superannuated idol.
— Joseph Addison
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.]
— Joseph Addison
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.
— Ernest Cline
All dressed up with nowhere to go. Walking with a dead man over my shoulder. Don't run away, it's only me.…
— Ernest Cline
Gut', sagte er und zwinkerte mir zu. 'Mach nicht denselben Fehler wie ich. Versteck dich nicht ewig hier drin.
— Ernest Cline
This was not how I wanted to die. Not even close. And then my ex-girlfriend fell out of the sky.
— Ernest Cline
Remember that lost time does not return.
— Thomas a Kempis
I picked up the rose-colored sachet pillow on her bed. Hugging it against my flat chest, I breathed in its sweet fragrance. "I was very sassy on the phone. I'm sorry, Mom.
— Beverly Lewis
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
— Bill Bailey
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
— Abraham Lincoln