Quotes About Regret

... people who'd led dull and blameless lives did not give thanks for second chances.

I think that in many ways, some of those who did vote for Trump are sorry that they did so. But the hope, at least, is that we have a chance to make up for those kinds of mistakes.

If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.

I made a terrible mistake last Christmas. My wife made me swear that I wouldn't give her a fancy gift. And I didn't.

I felt overstuffed and dull and disappointed, the way I always do the day after Christmas.

Therefore with idle hands and head I sit In late December before the fire's daze Punished by crimes of which I would be quit.

Once a word has been allowed to escape, it cannot be recalled.

As so often happens, I discover that it would have been better to keep my mouth shut.

Many times in life I've regretted the things I've said without thinking. But I've never regretted the things I said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

I have often repented speaking, but never of holding my tongue.

The brave may not live forever, but the cautious do not live at all.

What is more mortifying than to feel that you have missed the plum for want of courage to shake the tree?

I would like my Dad to be alive so he could see what I am.

Father's Day makes me wish I could talk to my Dad just one more time, instead of all the time.

I met Picasso when I was a kid. I turned one of his drawings down which would be worth £37 million now. My dad wouldn't talk to me for a fortnight.

Heart Breaking, I think that if Dad, staring down the sight of a 10mm, would only tell me he loves me, I could easily change my mind... ...but he won't.

I didn't want to see them lower him into the ground in the spot he'd picked out with his dad, and I didn't want to see his parents sink to their knees in the dew-wet grass and moan in pain.

I can see her lying back in her faded dress in a room where do what you don't confess.

I'm not afraid to fail...I'm scared to death of dying and having the Lord say to me, 'Angelica, this is what you might have done had you trusted more.

Most of us tiptoe through life in order to make it safely to death.

Our own death wish is our only real tragedy.

Most people tiptoe their way through life, hoping they make it safely to death.

... but one loves, and when one is on the brink of death, one turns around to look backward, and one says to oneself: "I have often suffered, I have sometimes been wrong, but I have loved.

It's what you do, unthinking, that makes the quick tear start; the tear may be forgotten.... but the hurt stays in the heart.