Quotes About Regret

There are seven things you can never get back. 1. Words after they have been spoken. 2. A stone after it has been thrown. 3. A moment or occasion after it has passed. 4. A person after they have passed. 5. Time once it has passed. 6. Betrayal after it has transpired. 7. A lie after it has been spoken.

Maybe ignorance is bliss, because you can work out things about people and then wish you hadn't.

Tattoo parties: just like a regular party – but with a permanent hangover.

When Renee and I talked about it years later, we agreed on one point: We were insane. Renee always said, "If any of our kids want to get married when they're twenty-five, we'll have to lock them in the attic." We were just kids, and everybody who came to the wedding party was guilty of shameful if not criminal negligence-- look at the shiny pretty toaster, isn't it cute to see the babies playing with it in the bathtub? Jesus, people!

The overwhelming sorrow of finding a cup of tea you forgot about.

You always remember the words that come back to bite you in the ass, no matter how much you'd like to forget them.

But hoping you never saw someone again is a damn sight different from wishing them dead.

We spend our lives drowning in the sea of things we never wished to experience.

The unchosen thing is what causes the trouble. If you don't do something with the unchosen, it will set up a minor infection somewhere in the unconscious and later take its revenge on you. Unlived life does not just "go away"...

You must have noticed it is always too late when questions are answered and hopes fulfilled and sacrifices made and murder done. Because it is always later than you think.

Knowing what I now know, if I could go back in time, would I make the same choice?

When it comes to freedoms, it is more dangerous to have given for a while than never to have given at all.

foolish purchase decisions,

A real hangover is nothing to try out family remedies on. The only cure for a real hangover is death.

RICH I'm lamenting. I've lost my innocence. CROMWELL You lost that some time ago. If you've only just noticed, it can't have been very important to you.

We have a choice every day — to act on yesterday's good intentions or get an early start on tomorrow's regrets.

I suppose I will die never knowing what pumpkin pie tastes like when you have room for it.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

There is a what-the-hell moment in life when you feel you have been pre-punished for every sin you'll ever commit.

Who does not wish to be beautiful, and clever, and rich, and to have back, in old age, the time spent trying to be any of them.

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.