Quotes About Regret

The pains we inflict upon ourselves hurt most most of all.

Do it or don't do it — you will regret both.

I see it perfectly; there are two possible situations - once can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly one you can never have.

by not venturing, it is so dreadfully easy to lose that which it would be difficult to lose in even the most venturesome venture…For if I have ventured amiss – very well, then life helps me by its punishment. But if I have not ventured at all – who then helps me?

And now, I'm glad I didn't know the way it all would end, the way it all would go. Our lives are better left to chance, I could've missed the pain, but I'd have had to miss the Dance.

Alas, how easily things go wrong! A sigh too much, a kiss too long And there follows a mist and a weeping rain And life is never the same again

Life is a slate where all our sins are written; from time to time we rub the sponge of repentance over it so we can begin sinning again.

Far worse it is, To lose than never to have tasted bliss.

Life's better now. I wouldn't do it all over again, though. It's funny how life works. Maybe it was meant to happen for many reasons, because my life in many ways richer.

All my life, I just felt that I should have finished my education.

Probably no one alive hasn't at one time or another brooded over the possibility of going back to an earlier, ideal age in his existence and living a different kind of life.

When you're dead, it robs life of many of it's pleasures

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

Don't get to the end of your life and realize you have never lived.

I played with fire, did counsel spurn, Made life my common stake; But never thought that fire would burn, O that a soul could ache.

We waste our best years in distilling the sweetest flowers of life into potions which, after all, do not immortalize, but only intoxicate.

When traveling abroad if you see something you yearn for if you can afford it at all, buy it. If you don't you'll regret it all your life.

Life was too short and ended too suddenly. If you didn't take advantage of what you had today, tomorrow it might be ripped from you.

Our life capital is measured in seconds. Once those seconds are gone, we never get them back!

The single worst moment of my life... was the moment I was born.

What would happen is that people like Geroge and Alyx would grow old and die chasing a dream. Although there were probably worse things to do with one's life.

I feel like my life is just passing me by like two ships in the night. And I have missed both boats.

I felt for my crime a just terror; I looked on my life with hate, and my passion with horror.