Quotes About Regret

The one of the great sadnesses of any life is knowing what you know now and then remembering what you did not know then.

In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

I'd say it was nice knowing you, but as you've effectively ruined my life, it almost certainly hasn't been.

I know I cannot undo this. None of us can undo what we've done, or relive a life already recorded.

If you lose a big fight, it will worry you all of your life. It will plague you - until you get your revenge.

There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

There are moments in one's life where you look back and you say, 'Well, I wish I had done this differently.

But lost chances are as much a part of life as chances taken, and a story cannot dwell on what might have been.

I was blinded by stupidity for a brief moment in our life, for a flicker in the eternity in which you and I live, and I stumbled.

Sometimes I would almost rather have people take years of my life than take away a moment.

I ran into Neal Patrick Harris recently. We were in something called The Purple People Eater. He was maybe 10, but he still remembered it as the worst experience of his life!

I wanted impossible things. I wanted my life with her before it all turned bad. What I had been given had been taken away and now I was even less than before.

Life is short. Time is short. As we get older, time does quicken. It's long, and it's long pertaining to that thought, that the past is not done with you because you can't rid of it.

In life, do you ever really know if you're missing an opportunity? No, you really don't.

I'll never know what my life would have been like if they hadn't made Lawrence of Arabia. What would I be? I would maybe have 10 children, a very fat wife. I would be very fat myself. I don't know.

Death is only a tragedy when life's purpose was left unfulfilled.

You spend your whole life grieving for those who haven't died yet.

We don't admit it to ourselves, not until the very moment of death, but in that moment, we see all life before us and we understand how we chose, every day of our lives, the manner of our death.

Death is not a tragedy to the one who dies; to have wasted the life before that death, that is the tragedy.

I think I missed my window." "What window?" "My get-a-life window. I think I was supposed to figure all this stuff out somewhere between twenty-two and twenty-six, and now it's too late.

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

I was born under a lucky star, and I have nothing whatsoever to regret. I wouldn't change a thing about my life.

And I, what is my crime I cannot tell, Unless it be a crime to haue lou'd too well.

Life is too god damn short and you can't waste a minute of it.