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Quotes About Regret

There's nothing sadder than getting to the end of your life and saying, 'I didn't do it right'.
~ Lily Tomlin
There is no worse bitterness than to reach the end of your life and realized you have not lived.
~ M. Scott Peck
Death isn't sad. There's nothing sad about it. Living a shitty life, that's sad.
~ Mac Danzig
The only thing worse than dying is living a boring life.
~ Mark Driscoll
Throughout my life I had wandered alone, trying to find pieces of me in any place I could and when it came down to it, I was nothing but a shell of missed opportunities.
~ Matthew Carter
Life, too, is like that. You live it forward, but understand it backward. It is only when you stop and look to the rear that you see the corpse caught under your wheel.
~ Abraham Verghese
The two saddest moments of my life were when my mother died and when I was told I couldn't play football for the Colts anymore.
~ Art Donovan
I've danced one time in my life. It was the most mortifying experience I ever had.
~ Billy Bob Thornton
I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'
~ Georges St-Pierre
the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
~ Helen Rowland
That is how prison is tearing me up inside. It hurts every day. Every day takes me further from my life.
~ Jack Abbott
Life comes in the form of opportunities, which are easy to recognize, after they have been wasted.
~ Javan
If I had my life to live over... I wouldn't have time.
~ Roger Miller
Being given chances, and not taking them. That's what life is all about.
~ Ron Greenwood
For a while, I had this uncontrollable urge - this addiction to danger. Now I look back and I think, 'Gee, what an idiot. I was risking my life just for the sensation of it.'
~ Steven Seagal
Marriage was probably the worst mistake I ever made in my life.
~ Tony Dorsett
I can say, "I don't have anything I regret!" But I can also say, "I can go forward in my life the way it is and I don't think I'll accrue any future regrets."
~ Michael J. Fox
I don't know what else to tell you. I often think how different my life would have been - how much happier - if you'd been a part of it. One day.
~ Michael Robotham
When you discover you've been leading only half a life, the other half is going to haunt you until you develop it.
~ Phillips Brooks
I'd swap everything I've done in my miserable little life to bat like Virender Sehwag
~ Piers Morgan
Now I've laid me down to die I pray my neighbors not to pry Too deeply into sins that I Not only cannot here deny But much enjoyed as life flew by.
~ Preston Sturges
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
~ Richard Bach
I know it's wrong - God, it's all kinds of wrong - but I just want to lie down with you and wake up with you, just once, just once ever in my life.
~ Cassandra Clare
I'd like to have a decade of my life back. I dropped into a void for almost a decade.
~ Charles Durning