Deep Regret Quotes

#1. 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

#2. 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

#3. My father had always dreamed of getting a Ph.D., but certain life circumstances prevented him from following through. It was a tremendous, deep regret. The day I got my Ph.D., I saw in my father's face what it meant that I had done this.

Jhumpa Lahiri

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

Stephen Fry

#5. 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

#6. Time passes quickly, Great King. If I don't use the strength and energy I now possess as a young man, old age will arrive too soon and I will feel deep regret.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#7. 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

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

Henry Addington

#9. And yet it's there, we witnessed it being lit. And fires once lit have to burn until they spend themselves or someone extinguishes them, Anaxantis said, with some deep regret coating his voice.

Andrew Ashling

#10. Every moment we have is one more moment that can't be taken from us.

Sara Raasch

#11. Its better to regrets what you did, than regret what you didn't do.

William Nolan

#12. I believe in social dislocation and creative trouble.

Bayard Rustin

#13. Never have I felt so separate from her. And I regret to say that there were moments when my deep and loving pity for her merged into a desire to kick her fairly hard.

Dodie Smith

#14. I'm not even thinking about going back to play football at all. My mind's made up. I'm done.

Keyshawn Johnson

#15. When your bright future, becomes a dull regret of the past, take a deep breath and move on.

Kendal Rob

#16. I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into a very deep foxhole. Yet that feeling of faith sustained me, so I have no feelings of anger or regret.

Mark Kirk

#17. The center of my sins
stuck behind a blocked door,
circled by hollow deeds
spread on my lifetime's floor

Munia Khan

#18. The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

Sun Myung Moon

#19. It was there, deep inside everyone, hope, repentance, regret. The feeling had possessed both Elizabeth and I even on the threshold of hell, on the edge of end.

Suren Hakobyan

#20. Okay baby, let's take this rocket to Uranus. This hoor is perfect, and she can act as well.

Irvine Welsh

#21. I do have a very deep sense of regret that there was a conflict and that people lost their lives, and you know, many were responsible for that - and a lot of them wear pinstripe suits in London today.

Martin McGuinness

#22. Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

Shannon L. Alder

#23. Rebuke

Obstinate regression
bringing untold paths
of deep dark foreboding
depression...

Muse

#24. You'll never let me go, will you? Giving me the space and freedom I want isn't your idea of love, is it? You'd rather cut me deep on earth to spare me pain in hell, whereas I think hell is right here.

Matthew J. Hefti

#25. the tears fall from my heart
with deep sadness
then fly to sky
with bitter regret

Nazanin Mousavi

#26. Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more!

Alfred Lord Tennyson

#27. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.

Chris Wooding

#28. When you are stressed, if you take three deep breaths before you say or do anything, this will help prevent you from making choices you might regret later.

Ilchi Lee

#29. How do you live with a regret so deep it cuts through every part of you?

Tiffany Snow

#30. It pulled emotion from me I wasn't aware I could feel. A deep painful regret. Unrequited need.

Kim Harrison

#31. I detest 'Jingle Bells,' 'White Christmas,' 'Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer,' and the obscene spending bonanza that nowadays seems to occupy not just December, but November and much of October, too.

Richard Dawkins