Quotes About Regret

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

I have made terrible mistakes that have hurt the people that I cared about the most, and I am terribly sorry. I am deeply ashamed of my terrible judgment and my actions.

The amount of death terror experienced is closely related to the amount of life unlived.

When we are reflecting on terrorism we can grieve for many things we do and have done.

I think when you get older, things come along that you know are a test in some way of your ability to stay with it. And when e-mail came along, I was just going to fall in love with it. And I did. I can't believe it now - it's like one of those ex-husbands that you think, 'What was I thinking?'

I have no desire to keep playing international Test cricket, and not a day has gone by that I've regretted retiring.

Some days I end up thinking I really wish I was in the car - ike the Sonoma test, the boys tested it and I really missed driving the car there. But there are other days that I dont miss it.

The sadness comes because we turned aside to little things and in turning aside failed to reach our dreams — and also failed to reach the potential greatness that was in us.

As he choked back more tears, James realised that every time he lashed out it was him that got hurt most.

The last time you lost your cool like this, you ended up throwing Will Clarke off a rooftop.

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday.

The man placed my mother on the counter. I'd selected an urn that could easily be confused for a Chinese vase, but I no longer appreciated that. When I saw it now I thought, This thing is so ugly, and if I screw off the top I will hear my mother scream.

the air so still it aches like the place where the tooth was on the morning after you've been to the dentist or aches like your heart in the bosom when you stand on the street corner waiting for the light to change and happen to recollect how things once were and how they might have been yet if what happened had not happened.

People make a living donating to sperm banks. Last year I let $500 slip through my fingers.

Action isn't my forte. I'm an expert on contemplation and mild regret.

I've been waiting my whole life to fuck up like this.

If you're the kind of person who has no guts, you just give up every time life pushes you. If you're that kind of person, you'll live all your life playing it safe, doing the right things, saving yourself for something that never happens. Then, you die a boring old man.

Sad it is, the fate of kings.

All that is fair shall pass away; all that I love, all that I fear for—these shall the doctor take away, lifting them from my memory on the point of a steel blade. What has he to give in return? A hell of vapour, distorting sight; a hell of sound, drowning the soul.

Søren Kierkegaard: «Atreverse es perderse un instante, no atreverse es perderse para siempre».

In some lost fold of the past, we wanted to be lions and we're no more than castrated cats

Drink up, boys, drink up and don't worry, if we finish this bottle we'll go down and buy another one. Of course, it won't be the same as the one we've got now, but it'll still be better than nothing. Ah, what a shame they don't make Los Suicidas mezcal anymore, what a shame that time pases, don't you think? what a shame that we die, and get old, and everything good goes galloping away from us.

Qué lástima que pase el tiempo ¿verdad?, qué lástima que nos muramos y que nos hagamos viejos y que las cosas buenas se vayan alejando de nosotros al galope.

Nothing is ever behind us.