Quotes About Regret

The greatest risk in life is to risk nothing. The person who risks nothing, does nothing, has nothing, is nothing and becomes nothing.

At sixty I look back on a life of deep disappointments, of withered hopes, of unlooked for suffering, of severe discipline.

It's such a shame to waste time. We always think we have so much of it.

If I had followed my better judgment always, my life would have been a very dull one.

We have this one life to offer; there is no second chance.

Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.

The saddest thing in life is wasted talent, and the choices you make will shape your life forever.

One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.

I hate failure and that divorce was a Number One failure in my eyes. It was the worst period of my life. Neither Desi nor I have been the same since, physically or mentally.

The end of a dissolute life is a desperate death.

We get ready for death by beginning to live life as we should have been living it all along.

Give me a paper and pen, so I can write about my life of sin. A couple of bottles of gin, in case I don't get in.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

Do not be afraid of death. Be afraid of the half-lived life!

I have a theory that every time you make an important choice, the part of you left behind continues the other life you could have had.

Short as life is, we make it still shorter by the careless waste of time.

It's really a drag to sit around when you're old, and think, 'Ah, gee, I never went to France.' Go to France. Life is very short; you've got to pack it all in there.

Don't use the past as an excuse to miss out on your future.

My only regret in life is that I did not drink more wine.

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

I have the feeling of this completely alternative person I should have become. There was another life that I might have had, but I'm having this one.

I wonder if anyone will ever know the emptiness of my life. Personal Diary -- Last entry Oh whats the point?

I have had many successes and many failures in my life. My successes have always been for different reasons, but my failures have always been for the same reason: I said yes when I meant no.

Don't you ever get the feeling that all your life is going by and you're not taking advantage of it? Do you realize you've lived nearly half the time you have to live already?