“I have always regretted instances in which I failed to live up to the highest standards of conduct or principles of compassion that I cherish and teach. Being human, I anticipate regretting future failures.”
“I worship individuals for their highest possibilities as individuals and I loathe humanity for its failure to live up to these possibilities.”
“I would rather risk rejection and fail, then never try, and live with regret.”
“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”
“I regret how much I believed in the future.”
“Nowadays the standards had plummeted so far that I failed even at being a failure. I silently packed up. Nothing else was left. They had even robbed me of self-pity”