Quotes About Regret

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

A kiss that is never tasted, is forever and ever wasted.

I have wasted my hours.

I never thought I was wasted, but I probably was.

This is where I have wasted the best years of my life.

When I was young, I kissed my first woman and smoked my first cigarette on the same day. Believe me, never since have I wasted any more time on tobacco.

I feel more and more the time wasted that is not spent in Ireland.

At its heart, 'Fat City' is not about boxing. It is a universal story of grim realities and toxic delusions. It is awash with awareness of chances blown, dreams stymied, precious time wasted, and all future prospects scorched to ashes by the process.

As far as intellectual training was concerned, my nine years from seven to sixteen were practically wasted.

I realized that, after tasting entrepreneurship, I had become unfit for the corporate world. There was no turning back. The only regret I had was having wasted my life in the corporate world for so long.

Life is busy. There are daily concerns and obligations that have to be met, and to take time to think about how precious and special a human life is that you only get one, and that every wasted minute is lost. You can't get it back.

I'm not sure I'd go back and do anything over in my life. I've definitely had my fair share of failures and moments where I wasted my time or that of other people, but if I did those moments over, I'd have missed out on so many lessons.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

I look back and wonder why I wasted my time talking about fried potatoes with the great John Lennon. But that's what was so fabulous about him - he was very down to earth.

I really wasted a lot of time in my 20s.

I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

I wasted so many years in my youth.

When you talk to people who are old, some wish they had enjoyed themselves more, but not many wish they had wasted more time.

I feel like I wasted my time in my twenties. When you are beginning to realise your potential you wish you'd realized it earlier.

I was terribly ambitious: I was always thinking why wasn't I in the West End. I really wasted my whole youth.

I wasted a lot of my talent in the '90s because the money was so big, and I was making so much money, I didn't care to practise as much. That is my only regret.

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

I regrettably wasted time at university by being overwhelmed and intimidated by the talent of other composers. I felt stuck and didn't know what I was doing there. I enjoyed my experience, but I didn't grab it in the way I would now.

When I was eight, an uncle, great uncle, gave a violin to me, and my father took me off to have lessons. After about six weeks, the violin teacher told my father he was wasting his money, wasting his time, and wasting my time, and it's one of my big regrets.