Quotes About Regret

I find it hard to focus looking forward. So I look backward.

It's defeatist to harp on what might have been, and yet, it's hard to resist considering what might have been.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

If, like Harry Keogh, I could talk to the dead - God, there are an awful lot of people I would like to speak to! Not least my father. Being in the army for 22 years, I didn't see enough of him, and I know there are a great many things I could have learned from him.

Do I miss Harvard? Not for a second. With a few exceptions... those four years are ones I would rather forget.

I could've gone to Harvard twice, the money I lost on cars.

Sometimes I feel like a has-been who never was.

I did '24;' it was terrible. I hated every moment of it.

There's nobody, possibly, who could have hated 'Octomom' more than I.

I usually destroy unreleased material. It has a way of coming back to haunt you.

I do feel guilty. I do. Especially about my family, my children. I write about them, and I know that this will haunt them as well through their lives. Why did I do that to them?

I've done a few jobs out there for the money, and I find those jobs have come back to haunt me.

I didn't want to get divorced, but at the point where your children are part of it, you have to do something. I would really love it not to have happened because it haunts you, it will never go away, and it is probably the biggest failure, and I have to live with that.

I love characters who are kind of haunted by their pasts, who struggle on despite their flaws, knowing that, at the end of the day, they're not going to shuffle off to those pearly gates.

When Stuart passed away, I was so young and so selfish about living and having fun.

Every man is guilty of all the good he did not do.

I've had my heart broken and then gone out and done dumb things.

There were a couple of years where I got a bit lost - I went out too much, I was a bit heartbroken, thought I was a bit more of a dude than I really was. I would love to go back and have a strong word with myself.

The thing about being a kid is you're going to make mistakes in the heat of the moment.

I wrote a piece for the school literary magazine that now makes me think: 'My God in Heaven, this is just the worst drivel.'

If I believed in Hell, I'd definitely be going there.

Hell is full of good meanings and wishings.

How many famous and high-spirited heroes have lived a day too long?

He who hesitates is a damned fool.