Quotes About Regret

If I was lying on my deathbed and I had kept this secret and never ever did anything about it, I would be lying there saying, 'You just blew your entire life.'

There's not another drug in life that I'm glad I took but grass.

The more unlived your life, the greater your death anxiety.

When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.

You can't live a truthful life without regret.

When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Don't waste your time on life.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out discretion, and so disappears the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

If I had it [life] to do all over again, I'd have been a plumber.

My father always said, 'The saddest thing in life is wasted talent.'

When they talk of ghosts of the dead who wander in the night with things still undone in life, they approximate my subjective experience of this life.

I despise making the most of one's time. Half of the pleasures of life consist of the opportunities one has neglected.

But he who dies in despair has lived his whole life in vain.

As much wrong as I did in life and as many people as I hurt, I can say that God never stopped talking to me. I just stopped listening.

Most of us are tiptoeing through life so we can reach death safely. We should be praying, "If I should wake before I die. . . ." Life can get away from you.

No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused

This sorrow weighs upon the melancholy souls of those who lived without infamy or praise.

You only get one chance at life, not two! Don't joke around with your own life.

By definition, an actor's life is a recipe for regret. There are always roads you could have taken. But I've lived long enough to realise that each road has its own rewards.

I'm proud of what I achieved there, but a life built on memories is not much of a life.

Life would have been easier for me if I just hadn't met you. But then it hadn't been my life.

I've been smart enough to have lived my life stupidly.

MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.