Quotes About Regret

How do we not rue the many unchosen paths in life? A blessed lack of imagination. There are enough real glories along any path to swamp our meager ability to picture alternatives.

I've done some pretty bad things in my life.

And as a writer now, I want to save Linda's life. Not her body--her life.

It's more like I was daydreaming when the Supreme Being told me what I should do with my life, and it's too late to ask what it was.

...I can't possibly take time off for a second baby, unless I do, in which case that is nobody's business and I'll never regret it for a moment unless it ruins my life.

Because, really, what was worse than lying wide-awake in the dark, watching your life drip away, one irreplaceable minute after another?

I have done bad things. I can't take them back, and they are part of who I am. Most of the time, they seem like the only thing I am.

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

If I had my life to live over again, I'd live over a saloon.

It is in a small village in the Pyrenees where no one knows me 7that my life will come to a close.... There is not enough time remaining for me to write all the letters I would like to write.

Where lives the man that has not tried How mirth can into folly glide, And folly into sin!

Thus aged men, full loth and slow, The vanities of life forego, And count their youthful follies o'er, Till Memory lends her light no more.

It was not an eventful day. I should have done extraordinary things. I should have sucked the marrow out of life. But on that day, I slept eighteen hours out of a possible twenty-four.

One of the great sadnesses of my life, as I take stock at middle age, is the sense that the adventure largely ended by the time I was twenty-five.

I thought, it's a shame that we have to live, but it's a tragedy that we get to live only one life, because if I'd had two lives, I would have spent one of them with her.

I never wanted to be the person who said, "I woulda, coulda, shoulda." Life is way too short, and you may not last that long.

What I know is you can't go back. You can't press delete and re-key your life.

If asked to name the worst moment of his life, Michael Fisher wouldn't have hesitated to give his answer: it was when the lights went out.

It's my job to turn my mess [life] into a message and never regret a day of my life.

I nursed a worthless, pint drinker for twelve years and when my lazy, life-sucking, daddy finally died, I swore to God with tears in my eyes I'd never marry one. And then I did.

I realized that there are just certain things in life that are private. I have things in my past - like everyone - that I'm not proud of.

After everything he'd built, planned, fought for, fretted over, dreamed of, this was the summation of his life; one disappointing son and two suitcases.

I'd spare your tears for the rest of your life if I could.

My life was over, finished, and I'd never seen Pearl Jam play live