Quotes About Regret

If I had my life to live over, I'd have spent more hours in worship.

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

Having spent alarmingly large chunks of my life studying the white side of the Open Sicilian, I find myself asking, why did I bother?

Sometimes I've even wished there was a human pause button, where you could choose some point in your life where you could stay always.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

I was tired of an outlaw's life.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

This is unbearable ... God. These books she'll never read. Her Life's Library.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I'd be a lousy businessman, and if I didn't give acting a try I'd regret it for the rest of my life.

There are some choices you can only make once. You can't go back to where you made a choice and then take the other one.

Sometimes it's heartbreaking to see your siblings as the people they've become. Maybe that's why we all stay away from each other as a matter of course.

Growing up happens when you start having things you look back on and wish you could change -Clary Fray

My life is an apology for the life of my father.

A certain recluse, I know not who, once said that no bonds attached him to this life, and the only thing he would regret leaving was the sky.

The worst of misery Is when a nature framed for noblest things Condemns itself in youth to petty joys, And, sore athirst for air, breathes scanty life Gasping from out the shallows.

I was brought up Catholic and, of course, I strayed and repudiated it. That's a painful thing to go through, because you have to look back and realize that you wasted a gigantic chunk of your life.

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.

I know a good woman who thinks that her son lost his life because he took to drinking water only.

The damning tho't stuck in my throat and cut me like a knife, That she, whom all my life I'd loved, should be another's wife.

Life is too short to dwell on what might have been.

I bet the worst part about dying is the part where your whole life passes before you.

I had dreamed my life for nearly fifty years (I am about to be fifty-nine). But, you see, there are two tones in Les Mats: the echo of this condemnation and a mitigation of that severity.

Had I been chosen President again, I am certain I could not have lived another year.

The gray glaze of the past attacks all know-how...