Quotes about Regret

What might have been" is a pretty good definition of Hell.

Every moment spent in unhappiness is a moment of happiness lost.

Live life to the foolish coz life is to short to be wasted.

I will not comment on or confirm what are alleged to be stolen State Department cables. But I can say that the United States deeply regrets the disclosure of any information that was intended to be confidential, including private discussions between counterparts or our diplomats' personal assessments and observations.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.

We lose too soon, and only find delight In withered husks of some dead memory.

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret. The only way to get rid of a temptation is to yield to it. Resist it, and your soul grows sick with longing for the things it has forbidden to itself, with desire for what its monstrous laws have made monstrous and unlawful.

Yes, Dorian, you will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.