Deep Regret Quotes:

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

- Jean Plaidy

topic: Life, Happiness, Break Up, Regret Nothing, Good Experiences

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

- Nathan Hale

source: Before being executed as a spy by the British, 22 September 1776, in Henry Phelps Johnston 'Nathan Hale, 1776' (1914) ch. 7.

topic: Inspirational, Life, Country, Independence Day Patriotic, American Revolution

I wish it need not have happened in my time," said Frodo. "So do I," said Gandalf, "and so do all who live to see such times. But that is not for them to decide. All we have to decide is what to do with the time that is given us.

- J. R. R. Tolkien

source: J.R.R. Tolkien (2012). “The Lord of the Rings: One Volume”, p.48, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

topic: Death, Wish, Needs, Inspiring Movie, Motivational Life Changing

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Children, Regret, Stupidity, Deep Regret

Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

- Nick Hornby

topic: Sorry, Couple, Regret, Deep Regret, Photo Of Me

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged.

- Edgar Allan Poe

source: Edgar Allan Poe, Stuart Levine, Susan Levine (1976). “The Short Fiction of Edgar Allan Poe: An Annotated Edition”, p.269, University of Illinois Press

topic: Regret, Wish, Desire, Deep Regret

We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets.

- Tenzin Palmo

source: Source: studybuddhism.com

topic: Appreciation, Regret, Waste, Deep Regret

A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.

- R.L. LaFevers

topic: Regret, Kissing, Giving, Deep Regret

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.

- Conrad Veidt

topic: Hurt, Regret, Father, Father Died, My Father Died

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.

- Henry Addington, 1st Viscount Sidmouth

topic: Determination, Regret, Long, Deep Regret

If I go out of public life with one feeling, with one conviction, it is this : a deep regret for many bitter words I have used in my life, deep sincere repentance for my violence of language. But I hope they will be forgiven me by God and man, because not once in all my life have I attacked anybody unjustly from my point of view, and without believing it was my duty to do so.

- Henri Bourassa

source: "Fiery Politician, Dies, The Globe and Mail" by Henri Bourassa, p. A1, September 1, 1952.

topic: Regret, Believe, Men, Deep Regret, Bitter Words

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

- Marianne Williamson

source: Source: rayhemachandra.com

topic: Pain, Regret, Self, Deep Regret, Amends

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.

- Stephen Fry

source: Stephen Fry (2014). “The Hippopotamus”, p.10, Soho Press

topic: Regret, Numbers, Salary, Deep Regret