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Quotes About Regret

Life is short. It's God's fault. Sorry.
~ David James
Don't bemoan your misspent life quite yet. Forgive me for flaunting my experience, but you have no conception of what a misspent life constitutes.
~ David Mitchell
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
~ David Nicholls
He looked as though his life had not only passed him by but paused along the way to spit in his face.
~ David Sedaris
Once people start to think they've wasted parts of their life, or they're wasting their life as they speak, that means there's going to be great dramatic and comedic tension.
~ Denis Leary
Sometimes it feels as if everything in life is just something we haul into the grave.
~ Douglas Coupland
Time is life. To waste your time is to waste your life.
~ Douglas Merrill
I have committed many sins in my life. This precise sin-the sin against poets-is without absolution.
~ E. L. Doctorow
She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.
~ Edward Rutherfurd
God, how I have wasted my life.
~ Elisabeth Kubler-Ross
She would always be living her life backwards, she realized, trying to regain something perfect that she'd lost.
~ Elizabeth Hay
And it was too late. No one wants to believe something is too late, but it is always becoming too late, and then it is.
~ Elizabeth Strout
Very early in my life it was already too late.
~ Elizabeth Wurtzel
Life has taught me that the greatest tragedy is not to die too soon but to live too long.
~ Ellen Glasgow
But then, my entire life is bullshit. The best things in it have vanished, ghosts. Ghosts I'll admit I created.
~ Ellen Hopkins
Life is full of choices. We don't always make good ones. It seems to Kristina you gotta be crazy to open your windows, invite the demons in. Bree throws rocks at the feeble glass, laughs
~ Ellen Hopkins
Nay, you'll be ashamed of me everyday of your life," he answered; "and the more ashamed, the more you know me; and I cannot bide it.
~ Emily Bronte
Getting pregnant wasn't easy, and I found that devastating. I really beat myself up for waiting so long when I'd always wanted children and family had been the basis of my happiness my whole life.
~ Emily Procter
I've got a great dislike of reunions. It's a little like trying to go back and relive the best parts of your life, but you can't do it. Nothing is ever the same.
~ Eric Burdon
How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long, summer days of unreflecting dissipation.
~ Evelyn Waugh
I don't regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life's full.
~ Francesca Annis
He that hath promised pardon on our repentance hat not promised life till we repent.
~ Francis Quarles
Man often thinks of either his past or his future and in the mean time today passes like a fast train, disappearing forever on the horizon of life!
~ Mehmet Murat Ildan
I sold my life to Capitol Records; it sucks.
~ Melissa Auf der Maur