Regret Quote by Christopher Isherwood

The real affliction of old age is remorse.

— Cesare Pavese

“I suppose if one lives to be old, one's entire waking life will be spent turning on the spit of recollection over the fires…

— Philip Larkin

“The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.”

— Mary Shelley

“It's not a love of the old as such. It's simply that the process of aging or deterioration provides the necessary detachment - or…

— Susan Sontag

“Elderly! The forgotten golds of the past; the ignored tired souls of the society! This world has many shames and one of the worst…

— Mehmet Murat ildan

Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure.

— Winifred Holtby

Remorse is the poison of life.

— Charlotte Bronte

“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even be defined, Because everything is…

— Ogden Nash

“Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful.”

— E.M. Forster

Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance,…

— Pascal Bruckner

“definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the…

— Frank Delaney

“age is no crime but the shame of a deliberately wasted life among so many deliberately wasted lives is.”

— Charles Bukowski