Quotes About Regret

In 10,000 years you will not regret anything you didn't have or do in this life.

I had a period in my life in the '90s where I was definitely young, dumb, and full of even more dumb.

God may reduce you on Judgment Day to tears of shame, reciting by heart the poems you would have written, had your life been good.

Everything in life has let me down.

You don't get a rebate at the end of your life for living with an idiot.

Ever dumb thing I ever done in my life there was a decision I made before that got me into it. It was never the dumb thing. It was always some choice I'd made before it.

Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.

A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It's not easy to be on the wrong foot with life.

If I had my life to live over again, I would ask that not a thing be changed, but that my eyes be opened wider.

As long as you live, it is never too late to make amends. Take my advice, child. Don't waste your precious life with regrets and sorrow. Find a way to make right what was wrong, and then move on.

Your birth is a mistake you'll spend your whole life trying to correct.

Yes, I did support the Soviet Union, and I think the disappearance of the Soviet Union is the biggest catastrophe of my life.

Much later, when I was discussing cosmological problems with Einstein, he remarked that the introduction of the cosmological term was the biggest blunder he ever made in his life.

I made one great mistake in my life-when I signed the letter to President Roosevelt recommending that atom bombs be made but there was some justification-the danger that the Germans would make them.

Dr Weiss, at forty, knew that her life had been ruined by literature.

I hated Chris, my brother. I would pull his hair and kick him, until one day my father gave him permission to fight back. I'll be apologizing to him for the rest of my life.

Mama always said, dying was a part of life. I sure wish it wasn't.

Anything you lose automatically doubles in value.

This is all you have. This is not a dry run. This is your life. If you want to fritter it away with your fears, then you will fritter it away, but you won't get it back later.

I'll do one eventually as life's too short and none of us is getting any younger. I'd like to make one while I still look good and before I look like Phil Collins, which, eventually, I will.

Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.

We all make mistakes, don't we? But if you can't forgive yourself, you'll always be an exile in your own life.

Everybody has their moment of great opportunity in life. If you happen to miss the one you care about, then everything else becomes eerily easy.

I've never really learned how to live and I've discovered too late that life is for living.