Quotes About Regret

Your shame will be your torture, and your torture will be your life. I wish it long.

When people ask me why are you singing a drinking song if you don't drink anymore, because when I did drink I drank enough to sing drinking songs for the rest of my life!

Don't make a cemetery of your life by burying your talents.

I had wanted life not to bother me too much, and had succeeded - and how pitiful that was.

Making bad decisions and choosing the wrong partner can ruin your life for a long time, perhaps forever.

Why have I had this life? If I knew, I wouldn't have done it

My life has not been the best possible. The slave of impulse, I have rushed forward to my own destruction.

I had this vivid image of myself at the age of 60 looking back on my life and truly regretting the fact that I hadn't tried to be an actor

I'm not someone who dwells upon past events, taking the view that life is too short

Try to live your life in a way that you will not regret years of useless virtue and inertia and timidity.

What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life.

That's one of the great sadnesses of any life - knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

Life punishes those who come too late.

Death does not allow us to postpone all the things we can experience now.

Rosalia is dressed in raven clothes forty years too old for her, so that she seems to be in mourning for her life.

I am sorry my life is so marred and maimed by extravagance. But I cannot live otherwise. I, at any rate, pay the penalty of suffering.

It may seem like a big risk to follow your dream, but isn't the greatest risk of all to miss your life?

I like the job I have, but if I had to live my life over again, I would like to have ended up a sports writer.

My God, what have we done?

I grieve for life's bright promise, just shown and then withdrawn.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse.

By one delay after another they spin out their whole lives, till there's no more future left for them.

Have you ever wondered what a human life is worth? That morning, my brother's was worth a pocket watch.

I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.