Quotes About Regret

Men heap together the mistakes of their lives and create a monster they call destiny.

I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.

Caution is evil medicine to me, even when it seems to guarantee reward. It was a foretaste of my later conviction that the follies which a man regrets most are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

Chi non ha un mondo suo si diverte a rimpiangere il tramonto di un mondo altrui.

If you've no world of your own, it's rather pleasant to regret the passing of someone else's.

It is better to be a has-been than a never-was

Don't waste another day of your life.

It's too late. It's too late. Through the open door of the bathroom I see a watersoaked bag on the floor.

The quavering, sensual voice of Elvis Presley is coming from the juke-box in lonesome, sad, sustained, orgasmic moans: The bell-hop's tears keep flowing The desk clerk's dressed in black. Ã¢â'¬Â¦

I ask the people of Connecticut for their forgiveness, I should have paid more attention to people around me and people that I trusted but I am sorry for my actions and take full responsibility.

Today, I will try to remember to regret the past. I will think of how many mistakes I have made throughout my life. I will say to myself, 'If only I could go back in time and make different choices, so that my life could be the way it should have been.' Then I will remind myself that I cannot.

Oh yeah, I heard you got born again.' she said. 'Which you needed since they fucked up the first time.

There's a lot of people around here, me included, who think she talked him into an early grave, and that he wasn't the least bit sorry to go.

Ar fi trebuit s? fiu altceva, ceva ce nu simte nici un fel de durere. La noapte, reflect? el, frem?tând de anticipaÈ›ie, voi fugi de durere. ?i nu m? voi mai întoarce niciodat?.

Her limbs shrivelled and brittle, her skin wrinkled like a dry peach, her mind like a sponge squeezed out, with trickles of memories now and then to moisten it. And then there was gin:

I think the moments that are difficult for anybody are when you see what your life could be, if only you had the courage to take the steps needed.

I think we were very foolish, you and I.

At my age a man discovers regret, Senhor Mouse. I pursued blood instead of beauty. My memories are all of killing. I've forgotten the rest. Sometimes I cannot sleep.

Leave me now as one leaves a corpse...with regret, and memories, but without a second look.

The Admiral so regrets failure, he cannot THINK of success.

Lewd did I live & evil did I dwel

I'm really convinced that our descendants a century or two from now will look back at us with the same pity that we have toward the people in the field of science two centuries ago.

You can never get the smell of smoke out. Like the smell of failure in life.

Did you rejoice for the one you saved, or weep for the one you lost? She could not do both, so she wept.