Quotes About Regret

Memory overshadows the present and dims the future "into something thicker than its usual pea soup."

Credit and debt keep us fixated on the past and the future.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

The question was, could he forgive the past in order to have a future with her? Any future?

It does not matter how much we distance ourselves, how far we run - the past always shadows us.

The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.

I felt sorry for Senzo Meyiwa family and for the people of South Africa because it's a shame we lost such a huge talent. In all the games he had played I think he didn't concede any goal.

Heroine: Girl in a book who is saved from drowning by a hero and marries him next week, but if it was to be over again ten years later it is likely she would rather have a life-belt and he would rather have her have it

I feel like this is a dream, and I apologize for how I dressed some of you.

To lose one parent may be regarded as a misfortune; to lose both looks like carelessness.

When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened.

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

I refuse to endure months of expensive humiliation only to be told that at the age of four I was in love with my rocking horse.

I was always too mature for my age - and not very happy. I had no young friends. I wish I could go back to those days. If I could only live it all again, how I would play and enjoy other girls. What a fool I was.

For life in general, there is but one decree; youth is a blunder, manhood a struggle, old age a regret.

The awful daring of a moment's surrender which an age of prudence can never retract.

One of the worst things that can happen in life is to win a bet on a horse at an early age.

Youth is a blunder; manhood a struggle; old age a regret.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made.

There has never been an age that did not applaud the past and lament the present.

At my age, I'm envious of a stiff wind.

What makes old age hard to bear is not the failing of one's faculties, mental and physical, but the burden of one's memories.

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth-I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

There's no such thing as old age, there is only sorrow.