Quotes About Regret

There is nothing more tragic than to come to the end of life and know we have been on the wrong course.

Tell him yes. Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing

I gave up drinking once -- it was the worst afternoon of my entire life.

A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret.

He is terribly afraid of dying because he hasn't yet lived.

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure

What happens when you let an unsatisfactory present go on long enough? It becomes your entire history.

You only pass through this life once, you don't come back for an encore.

If you listen to your fears, you will die never knowing what a great person you might have been.

The one thing life has taught me is that most people spend their lives bottled up inside their houses doing the things they hate.

I've made mistakes in my life for sure.

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

Everybody dies but not everybody lives.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say what I feel, and I think people respect that because you're honest.

Exhaust the little moment. Soon it dies. And be it gash or gold it will not come again in this identical guise.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

If I could start my life all over again, I would be a professional football player, and you damn well better believe I would be a Pittsburgh Steeler.

The hollows of his face, even in that vibrant, late-summer light, make him look haunted by a memory he hasn't had yet.

The things we say to each other, thinking they are so important to say, and yet later regret, that become a part of you no matter how hard you push them away, even as you can't stop thinking about them.

He had come very far, this thought mixed with sadness for what lay behind, so many people with whom he'd forged such slight connections. So many people that, as he neared the end of the rocks, he wished he had known better, tried to know better. His caring for his father now seemed not like a selfless effort but something that had been for him, too, to show him what it meant to be close to someone

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

That's the past for you. Not only does it come back at the most unexpected, and inconvenient, times but it's set in stone.

As for asking me have I ever felt remorse after drinking, I have been living with remorse for years now. She wakes me up every morning. She puts me to bed at night and yea though I run through the valley of Oxford St to the Coach & Horses she is by my side.