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1 " A ‘complete man’ has a regret that he cannot bear a baby; whereas it is rather ironic that a self-styled ‘complete woman’ takes pride in denouncing that divine blessing. In fact, there is nothing like a ‘complete man’, only woman can be ‘complete’! "
2 " When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. "
― F. Scott Fitzgerald , Tender Is the Night
3 " Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instinctively do I recognise that it soars high above the gravest faults and the cruellest wrongs (and how admirable and full of significance is this instinct!). If there linger still a regret within me, it is not that I am unable to inflict suffering in my turn, but it is perhaps that my love was not great enough and that my forgiveness has come too late. … "
― Maurice Maeterlinck , The Treasure of the Humble
4 " 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 , The Apartment
5 " I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. "
― P.D. James , The Children of Men
