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Quotes About Regret

When I look in the mirror, I look at the enemy. There is no one to blame for this but myself. I should have bought myself a mirror a long time ago.
~ Darryl Strawberry
Many of us spend half of our time wishing for things we could have if we didn't spend half our time wishing.
~ Alexander Woollcott
Time lost can never be recovered...and this should be written in flaming letters everywhere.
~ Erik Larson
I was mad at the time, or I would never have done the thing.
~ Buster Keaton
I turned Hamlet down because it was going to take up too much of my drinking time.
~ Richard Harris
Why do I regret Chelsea? I'm the boss of the richest club in the world. I have not had much time to adjust myself, but I've found a great restaurant! That is the first thing I did when I arrived!
~ Carlo Ancelotti
Everything wrong I've ever done has always seemed like the right thing to do at the time.
~ Judith McNaught
The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon
~ Tupac Shakur
I would I could stand on a busy corner, hat in hand, and beg people to throw me all their wasted hours.
~ Bernard Berenson
As I get older, I realize a lot of the things I could have done - things that I didn't think were so great at the time - actually would have been enjoyable.
~ Kevin Shields
Buddy , you might think that I've lost my mind. But mister, I'd pay twice to do it one more time.
~ Dwight Yoakam
No one was more shocked or angry than I was when we didn't find the weapons. I had a sickening feeling every time I thought about it. I still do.
~ George W. Bush
There is no fence or hedge round time that has gone. You can go back and have what you like if you remember it well enough.
~ Richard Llewellyn
Every time you drink an inferior bottle, it is as if you took a fine bottle and smashed it against a wall. You can't get that bottle back!
~ Len Evans
By the time you know what to do, you're too old to do it.
~ Ted Williams
Time lost, as men may see, For nothing may recovered be.
~ Geoffrey Chaucer
Once upon a time the world was sweeter than we knew. Everything was ours; how happy we were then, but then once upon a time never comes again.
~ Johnny Mercer
I drink too much. The last time I gave a urine sample it had an olive in it.
~ Rodney Dangerfield
We only said goodbye with words I died a hundred time, you go back to her and I go back to black.
~ Amy Winehouse
You do not hate the time you waste; it evokes a much more passive emotion than that. You only wish you had it back, like a quarter in an unlucky slot machine.
~ Rick Bragg
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
~ Thomas a Kempis
Regret is just perfectionism plus time.
~ B. J. Novak
Most people I know live their lives moving in a constant forward direction, the whole time looking backward.
~ Charles Yu
We can sell our time, but we can't buy it back.
~ Paulo Coelho