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Quotes About Regret

Chunks of his life fell away, so that while we were moving ahead in time, he was moving back.
~ Jeffrey Eugenides
There is no more embarrassing thing in my life than the fact that I have actually uttered the phrase, 'I would like to order the Ginsu Knife.'
~ Jerry Seinfeld
The true Losers in Life, are not those who Try and Fail, but those who Fail to Try.
~ Jess C Scott
At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?
~ Jess Walter
Today is the last day of some of your life. Don't waste it." quote from Tara Daniels
~ Jill Shalvis
When you die, do you want to feel ashamed of what you've done with your life? Feel ashamed of what your life meant?
~ Jim Butcher
A life postponed too long might never be lived.
~ Joan Slonczewski
I don't know what I was thinking, coming out here. There are no silver bullets in life, there's just the long, messy climb out of the pit you've dug youself.
~ Jodi Picoult
Life was what happened when all the what-ifs didn't.
~ Jodi Picoult
Would you guys choose to walk away from possibly the most incredible encounter of your lifetime just because you had to let it go sooner then you wanted? Just because you knew that it would never be?
~ Holly Hood, Perfectly Hopeless
Let us endeavor so to live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain, Pudd'nhead Wilson
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
~ Woody Allen
My greatest pain in life is that I will never be able to see myself perform live.
~ Kanye West
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
~ Henry David Thoreau
What sad, short lives humans live! Each life a short pamphlet written by an idiot! Tut-tut, and all that.
~ Stephen King, It
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
~ Mark Twain
If we all discovered that we only had five minutes left to say all that we wanted to say every telephone booth would be occupied by people calling other people to tell them that they loved them.
~ Christopher Morley
I didn't have time for my children much. I wasn't a very good parent I had a pretty unhappy home life.
~ Carroll Shelby
If I had a chance for another life, I would certainly choose a better complexion.
~ Richard Burton
I wasn't a happy kid. I felt like my mum ruined our chance of a better life, because when she remarried, we went to live in Bahrain, on a compound with a swimming pool, and she ruined it all.
~ James Arthur
I don't regret any decision in my life... not my career, not marriage. Every experience has been so fulfilling in so many ways.
~ Amrita Singh
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
~ Rose Kennedy
We have real cliched ideas of what prison life is like. It is not a happy place. It's a desperate, sad situation.
~ Powers Boothe
Sometimes it makes me sad that I didn't get to have one family for my entire life.
~ Isabel Gillies