Quotes About Regret

by the time most people figure out what they really want and how to go about attaining it, it's usually too late. That saying, if youth only knew, if age only could, is so true

But nothing will fill your heart with a greater sense of regret than lying on your deathbed knowing that you did not live your life and do your dreams." Robin

Creedme si os digo que demasiados de nosotros mueren a los treinta, pero los entierran a los ochenta.

too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.

cuando estés a las puertas de la muerte seguro que no desearás haber pasado más tiempo en la oficina

Tek kad duboko i emocionalno spoznamo da je život kratak i da nam je vrijeme ograni?eno, tek tada možemo živjeti punim plu?ima i potpuno se predati sadašnjosti. Da ti je preostala samo jedna godina života, kladim se da bi je proživio druga?ije no što sada živiš. Pripazio bi da živiš bez žaljenja, prihva?ao bi rizike i otvorio bi svoje srce ljubavi, živio bi strastveno, sa užitkom, usredoto?en na ono što je vrijedno.

Megan squeezed her eyelids closed, blocking out the darkness that was his hair and the pain of the past.

Living the same week a few thousand times and calling it a life. I need to tell you that too many among us die at thirty and are buried at eighty.

At the end of our lives, we mostly regret the risks we didn't take, the dreams we didn't do and the love we failed to give. If those things are going to be important to you at the end, make them important to you right now.

Every event has a purpose and every setback its lesson. I have realized that failure, whether of personal, professional or even spiritual kind, is essential to personal expansion. It brings inner growth and a whole host of psychic rewards. Never regret your past. Rather, embrace it as the teacher that it is.

One of the saddest things in life is to get to the end and look back in regret, knowing that you could have been, done, and had so much more.

Potential unexpressed turns to pain.

Chris loved you, I said, and the truth of it was almost a physical pain. She wouldn't look at me. No he didn't. And he would have figured it out eventually. So would you? Then where would I have been? Not here.

Just because you can't take something back, doesn't mean you don't want to. Just because you want to, doesn't mean you try.

I think in some way it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows.

I think in some ways it's like that for all of us, living with the ghosts of things that used to be, or never were. We're all of us haunted by yesterday, and we got no choice but to keep marching into our tomorrows. Keep marching, boys and girls. Keep marching.

Once I pulled a job, I was so stupid. I picked a guy's pocket on an airplane and made a run for it.

Too-Soon Apology. Whenever one character seems to have died, and his best friend arrives just

Wasn't it Oscar Wilde who said, "To kill one lover may be regarded as a misfortune. To kill three seems like carelessness?

Poor kid, I thought, to do this to yourself at twenty-three and leave a note that tells me you could have been a writer. I would have liked that for you. I would have liked that very much.

If he had stayed in Slovenia, and Slovenia had stayed Communist, Žižek would not have been the nuisance he has since become. Indeed, if there were no greater reason to regret the collapse of Communism in Eastern Europe, the release of Žižek on to the world of Western scholarship would perhaps already be a sufficient one.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up and do them.

I've always been impulsive. My thinking is usually pretty good, but I always seem to do it after I do my talking — by which time I've generally destroyed all basis for further conversation.

Many of my better short stories are just the last chapters of novels I did not write.