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Quotes About Regret

One could do with a longer year - so much to do, so little done, alas.
~ Rose Macaulay
I didn't have a teenage or early-20s experience that was free and without worry. I missed the screw-everything, have-a-good-time phase.
~ Sandra Bullock
Then I'd crawl back into bed, smelling her all around me, and tell myself that next time, I would lock that window. But I never did.
~ Sarah Dessen
Looking back, I wish I could bottle the stuff that made it better, but how can one bottle time?
~ Scott Woods
One day you will hear the sound of time rustling as it slips through your fingers like sand. Remember me then. I wish you luck.
~ Sergei Lukyanenko
I know what it's like to squander all your hours and all your tears and all your heart on something which turns out to be nothing. Don't waste your time.
~ Sophie Kinsella
My biggest regret is that I don't really have time to read.
~ Stan Lee
When the time is gone, you can never get it back.
~ Stephen King
I guess there's just a time for doing dumb things.
~ Steven Brust
When I got married in my twenties, I had a happy marriage and happy kids but at some point in time I let it go off the rails I let it go off the rails.
~ Stuart Rose
I keep hoping that as time passes by, we'll regain the ease between us, but part of me knows it's futile. There's no going back.
~ Suzanne Collins
I seem to have spent a little less time painting than I might've done.
~ Syd Barrett
My children forgave me at a time when I could barely forgive myself.
~ Tatum O'Neal
For us, the best time is always yesterday.
~ Tatyana Tolstaya
I go back to December, turn around and make it alright I go back to December, turn around and change my own mind I go back to December all the time
~ Taylor Swift
O! what a prodigal have I been of that most valuable of all possessions Time!
~ Theresa Villiers
It's one of those things, when you look back on it, you'd go, "Oh, I could've done without that. If I could go back in time, I would do it different." That's the thing with violence in general.
~ Ti West
I was in too much haste, and now have no time left. I traded all the sunlight and the cities and the distant lands for a handful of power, for a shadow, for the dark.
~ Ursula K. Le Guin
For example, I loved English and history at school. I would have loved to have done a degree in either. But my Mom said I didn't have time for university.
~ Vanessa Mae
Time will say nothing but I told you so.
~ W. H. Auden
I never really spent time being jealous. Maybe I should have.
~ Will Arnett
Now that 'Scrubs' is over, people seem to feel more comfortable telling me that I was a total douche to them for the past 8 years. And the whole time I'm thinking, 'Who ARE you?'
~ Zach Braff
One time a reporter asked me what my worst quality was. I looked him in the eyes then punched him in the face. I kind of felt bad about it later, but he didn't need to be rude.
~ Zach Braff
Meant to be?' It's just something people say so that they don't have to look at all the things they did wrong and wish they could take back. Only by the time they figure that out, it's too late.
~ Zoey Dean