Quotes About Regret

My goal in life is to enjoy what I do, and never to look back and say I wish I would have done that.

What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.

Each person is only given so many evenings and each wasted evening is a gross violation against the natural course of your only life.

This life has been given to you for repentance; do not waste it in vain pursuits.

Life is too short, and the time we waste in yawning never can be regained.

Don't be one of those souls who says, 'If only I had my life to live over.' Live your life in such a way that once is enough.

But that was the best time of my life, and only now that it has gone from me forever -- only now do I realize it.

You can't spend your life beating yourself up for something that happened yesterday. You die if you don't follow your desire.

If school days are the happiest days of your life, I'm hanging myself with my skip-rope tonight.

All the mistakes I've ever made in my life have been when I've been drunk. I haven't made hardly any mistakes sober, ever, ever.

I've made mistakes but the beauty of life is that each regret builds character and makes us a better person

You're seventeen," Magnus said. "You can't have wasted a life you've barely lived.

Mortality means you don't have forever to work things out. You can live your life unexamined but then on the last day you're going to think: 'I've left things a little late.

But I know that I'm not who I was supposed to be. Who I could have been. And I know it's because I was too afraid for too long.

Why do so many people chose to spend their whole life destroying paths they didn't even want to follow, instead of following the one path that would lead them somewhere.

Don't forget: one of the saddest things in life is wasted talent.

I've never regretted not having children. My mindset in that regard has been constant. I objected to being born, and I refuse to impose life on someone else.

It seems to me so shocking to see the precious hours of a man's life - the priceless moments that will never come back to him again - being wasted in a mere brutish sleep.

Nights without beginning that had no end. Talking about a past as if it'd really happened. Telling themselves that this time next year, this time next year, things were going to be different.

Knowing what I know now and what I have been through, would I do it the same? I look at the alternative - a very simple life. It would have been nice to have a simple life.

She was unequal to anyone's wistfulness. She had made too little of her life. Its loneliness shamed her like a crime.

Our worst fear isn't the end of life but the end of memories.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

None would live past years again, Yet all hope pleasure in what yet remain; And, from the dregs of life, think to receive, What the first sprightly running could not give.