Life Quote by Melanie Benjamin

“When I think about all the time I wasted feeling guilty and ashamed about things I should have embraced long ago, it fills me…

— Nathan Rabin

“I am ashamed to admit that I have contemplated living versus ending it all.”

— J.L. Mac

“He had to deal all at once with the packed regrets and stifled dreams of an inarticulate lifetime.”

— Edith Wharton

“It is a sad moment when I sit back and take a critical inventory of my life. I have never allowed myself to dwell…

— Alessandra Torre

“To my shame, I had never thought to ask anything of the future, and yet woke each and every day embittered because it was…

— Chris Murray

“I wasn't prepared for the intensity of it.It was like going from blissful emptiness to experiencing a roller coaster of sensations all at once.”

— Alexandra Adornetto

“I became addicted to the guilt. The strange thrill of doing something so morbid, so off-color, and so completely wrong.”

— Marcella Pixley

“What was it about being told not to do something that just made you want to do it so much more?”

— T.A. Grey

“ When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?”

— Jim Butcher

“For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience.”

— Greg Baxter

“But guilt is about as useful as regret, since neither do anything to set things right.”

— Ken Lange

“Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.”

— Elizabeth Kelly