Quotes About Regret

I don't expect too much from the afterlife, I think that I know very well what pain is. When I think of the end of my life, I think mainly: I didn't do nothing, but I could have done more.

Live your life like you are 80 years old looking back on your teenage years

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

Very few persons go through life without at least one big chance. The fact that so many do not grasp it is due more often to fear than to any other one thing.

He killed himself for wanting to live.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

Going back to something is harder than you think.

Did I make it that easy to walk right in and out of my life?

A certain feeling comes from throwing your good life away, and it is one part rapture.

To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.

Life's too short for a funeral.

I now see that I spent most of my life in doing neither what I ought nor what I liked.

Of course I loved you, you saved my life. I wish you hadn't I wish you hadn't I wish you'd left me alone.

The unlived life isn't worth examining.

The sum of all the things we shouldn't have done in our lives is enough to kill us with the weight.

Weep for the lives your wishes never led.

My life is littered with bad decisions.

So much of life [is] a putting-off of unhappiness for another time. Nothing [is] ever lost by delay.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

And if I didn't, I'd spend the rest of my life wondering who I could have turned into if only I'd had the guts to try.

Sometimes I feel that life has passed me by... Do you ever feel that way, Charlie Brown?" "I feel that it has knocked me down and walked all over me!

Come on up, boys -I'm dead.

Though wise men at their end know dark is right, Because their words had forked no lightning they Do not go gentle into that good night.

Rhianon, he said, hold my hand, Rhianon. She did not hear him, but stood over his bed and fixed him with an unbroken sorrow. Hold my hand, he said, and then: why are your putting the sheet over my face?