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Quotes About Regret

With the mistake your life goes in reverse. Now you can see exactly what you did Wrong yesterday and wrong the day before And each mistake leads back to something worse.
~ Alexander Pope
I saw the end of his life right there in that single moment. His pride, his decency, his secrets, his death.
~ Alice Hoffman
How had it turned into this? I had lived my whole stupid life without him, and now I could barely make it through the hour.
~ Amanda Hocking
It's not a crime not to know yourself. It's not a crime to send life away. It's just a shame.
~ Andrew O'Hagan
I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.
~ Andy Kim
All of life like a series of tableaux, and in the living we missed so much, hid so much, left so much undone and unsaid.
~ Anna Quindlen
He wished he had inhabited more of his life, used it better, filled it fuller.
~ Anne Tyler
There are some movies that I would like to forget, for the rest of my life. But even those movies teach me things.
~ Antonio Banderas
My mantra has always been to have zero regrets in life. Everything I do at one speed, I go all-out.
~ Apolo Ohno
You know, Chihiro, darling- all it takes is one little wrong step and you end up feeling frustrated your whole life, like me.
~ Banana Yoshimoto
Suddenly women's lib had made me feel my life had been wasted.
~ Barbara Bush
Touch her," he said in Scott's ear, his voice low and threatening, "and it'll be the biggest regret of your life.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
Upon hearing via Littlewood an exposition on the theory of relativity: To think I have spent my life on absolute muck.
~ Bertrand Russell
If you question any candid person who is no longer young, he is very likely to tell you that, having tasted life in this world, he has no wish to begin again as a "new boy" in another.
~ Bertrand Russell
If I had done 'Titanic,' it would have made, probably, $200,000 - worldwide. So I think my life would have been very, very similar.
~ Billy Crudup
The end of a dissolute life is most commonly a desperate death.
~ Bion of Smyrna
The saddest day of my life was the day I didn't get to play football anymore.
~ Brian Bosworth
You said there was nothing in the world you wanted" The Queen's eyes glittered. "When you imagine your life without him, do you still feel the same?
~ Cassandra Clare
I would have given it up--all of it up--to be married to you for a day. A day that would never have come. You are a reminder--a reminder of everything I am losting. The Life I will not have.
~ Cassandra Clare
You can only desire something that you've already had in your life.
~ Cate Blanchett
I can't even think about what life "could have been" like in Boston, without crying. It's like deja-vu, I don't think me and Boston were ever meant to be.
~ Cecelia Ahern
If the prodigal quits life in debt to others, the miser quits it still deeper in debt to himself.
~ Charles Caleb Colton
Really, I think among the many mistakes I've made over my life, one of them was caring so much about the short story.
~ Charles D'Ambrosio
In life I was your partner, Jacob Marley.
~ Charles Dickens