Quotes About Regret

I remember taking mushrooms at the wrap party, it was like the first and last time I took that.

I do not fault anyone else who makes choices to play characters that they wished they hadn't... Because at the end of the day, none of us are happy with our jobs all the time.

Time slips through our hands like grains of sand, never to return again.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy.

Oh, that was a good time, when I was unhappy. [Fr., Oh c'etait le bon temps, j'etais bien malheureuse.]

I don't know how to incorporate regret. But I'll say, like, "It affected me that way," "I learned this," "Next time maybe I'll do it differently".

The game must have been past my bed-time.

How readily we wish time spent revoked, that we might try the ground again where once--through inexperience, as we now perceive--we missed that happiness we might have found!

You lose such a lot of time just sleeping ... when you might just be living! ... It seems such a pity we can't live nights too.

I wish i spent more time at the office.

Every day it becomes clearer that this was the wrong war at the wrong time.

Have you ever given someone a book you enjoyed enormously, with a feeling of envy because they were about to read it for the first time, an experience you could never have again?

Looking back, I spent a lot of time sitting in pubs when I should have been perfecting my playwriting.

I'd been hurt, and in response I had acted violently, destroying a little of myself each time I did so.

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

Jane Austen, Persuasion

There was once an old sailor my grandfather knew, Who had so many things which he wanted to do That, whenever he thought it was time to begin, He couldn't because of the state he was in.

Time, the greatest thief of all.

Oh why was I born for this time? Before one is thirty to know more dead than living people.

Let's put it this way: I did not get in trouble every time I drank, but every time I got in trouble, I'd been drinking

The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them. they're extinct. And dinosaurs.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

The only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it. It was only really one time.

It is better to take time to consider before than to find time to repent after.