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Quotes About Regret

Know what we did, Lucy? You and me? We spent our whole lives yearning. Isn't that the God damndest thing?
~ Richard Yates
Would he have said he loved me? I would ask myself that for the rest of my life.
~ Richelle Mead
The only evidence, so far as I know, about another life is, first, that we have no evidence; and secondly, that we are rather sorry that we have not, and wish we had.
~ Robert Green Ingersoll
We never think of the main business of life till a vain repentance minds us of it at the wrong end.
~ Roger L'Estrange
This is possibly the most shameful situation I've ever gotten myself in in my life, and I've done some pretty dumb things in my life. So to actually make a new No. 1 is spectacularly stupid.
~ Russell Crowe
I feel like I've lost 10 years of my life to cancer.
~ Sam Taylor-Wood
I'm a suicide. I walked right spang over the edge of life and disappeared. Splash! Bubble-bubble! There goes nothing.
~ Samuel Hopkins Adams
When people say, 'If I had my life over again I wouldn't do anything different,' well, I'd do everything differently just for the variety.
~ Samuel West
If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.
~ Sarah Addison Allen
Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.
~ Sarah Dessen
Experience in itself wasn't enough. The diary was my defense against waking up at the end of my life and realizing I'd missed it.
~ Sarah Manguso
Don't let your life pass you by, weep not for the memories.
~ Sarah McLachlan
I wonder at what point my life swerved to avoid that, and if that life would have been nicer than the one I've got.
~ Scarlett Thomas
I was sorry to lose it, and if you make me another one, I promise not to get taken captive by bandits and have to use it to save my life.
~ Shannon Hale
I don't think I've ever put it in words before. But daddy took a gun and ended his life and took momma's with him.
~ Shelby Lynne
I can't undo the past. But in the future, I will gladly lay my life down for you, brother. (Styxx)
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
The worst decisions of your life will always be those that are made out of fear.
~ Sherrilyn Kenyon
All my life I've always spoiled the things that meant the most to me.
~ Stanley Kubrick
You think I regret saving your life?
~ Stephenie Meyer
Amy: I never knew you drank wine. Doctor: I'm 1103 I must have drunk it sometime in my life. *takes sip and spits it out in disgust*
~ Steven Moffat
He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.
~ Susan Mallery
How much better my life has been for knowing him. For loving him, even if it's only in the limited way that I can manage. But I never get the chance.
~ Suzanne Collins
If you look back at life, I bet you will regret about 80% of your actions. But life consists of all mistakes.
~ Sylvester Stallone
One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.
~ Tana French