Quotes About Regret

Do you think I was wrong to let that pitch go by?" "Yes. Absolutely." "You're right." "Then why did you---" "Because I didn't know it was wrong until I did it. I had to learn, don't you see? I had to see what would happen when I let my hatred for coach go like that. I had to take control completely, just for once in my life, and see where it led me.

After a little while, she takes my hand. Less than I want. More than I deserve. [...] Why didn't I kiss her? Because I'm going away. Am I? Am I still? I think. I think I need to. I think.

A significant event in your life, and what you would or would not change about it. A significant event in your life. And what you would. Or would not. Change about it." Are you fucking kidding me? How about: not pulled the fucking trigger?

No one else needs to feel bad about what happened. Only one person.

No one else needs to feel bad about what happened. Only one person. I wish there were a way to assuage him, a way to tell him, "It's all right. You don't have to step around the rusty nails and broken glass of my past. Don't beat yourself up." But the only way to do that would be to acknowledge it in the first place, to say it happened, and I can't do that. When I try to talk about it, everything goes haywire.

The more options there are, the easier it is to regret anything at all that is disappointing about the option that you chose.

When asked about what they regret most in the last six months, people tend to identify actions that didn't meet expectations. But when asked about what they regret most when they look back on their lives as a whole, people tend to identify failures to act.

Pay attention to what you're giving up in the next-best alternative, but don't waste energy feeling bad about having passed up an option further down the list that you wouldn't have gotten to anyway.

Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all.

Want to know the biggest lie ever written? 'Tis better to have loved and lost than never to have loved at all. What an unmitigated pile of shit.

Show me a man who has not married a hundred times and I'll show you a wretch who does not deserve God's good world.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

In hell, sinners shall forever lay all the blame on their own wills. Hell is a rational torment by conscience.

And secret sin must ever share The secret misery.

Humans! don't get tired of their apologies and often forgive for they will always want to try 'one more last time.

Your day breaks, your mind aches You find that all the words of kindness linger on When she no longer needs you

Tengo este necio temor: el temor de ser vieja sin haber sido nunca joven de verdad.

one day I'll be old, without ever having really been young

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

It's just a fact of life that you don't realize what you've got until it's gone.

How many times have your parents told you not to do things, and the next thing you know, you go do it? And you realized you shouldn't have done it.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

I found every single laugh as Laertes that you can find and only realized later that you really shouldn't find any at all.

When I started to watch some of the films I'd done, I realized I was doing movies that I might not actually want to see.