Quotes About Regret

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it's all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.

Nothing is a bigger waste of time than regretting the past and worrying about the future.

I'm always like the guy who wants to date the pretty girl so bad, and when he finally gets the chance, he blows it because he spends too much time worrying about it.

I've just turned 60 and, looking back, I realise all the time I spent worrying I achieved nothing.

The only thing worse than an opportunity you don't deserve is blowing an opportunity.

For better or worse, I refuse to live my life with regret. Sometimes, I'll look back on my past mistakes with fondness. But I never wished I wouldn't have made them. That's why I don't like re-takes.

I lost my sleep, and this is the greatest tragedy that can befall someone. It is much worse than sitting in prison.

Having lost people when they were young, you feel intimately acquainted with mortality, I guess. Though I procrastinate worse than anybody.

Bad as was being shot by some of our own troops in the battle of the Wilderness, - that was an honest mistake, one of the accidents of war, - being shot at, since the war, by many officers, was worse.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

Writing about what happened to my brother and to my family was awful. It was hard to look back at how much suffering there was and at how certain bad situations were made worse by our decisions.

Nobody feels any worse than I do about losing.

Things have changed for the worse. That's why former eastern bloc countries are electing communists again. We are missing them and longing for the times we cursed before.

Parts of you die with every decision you have to make. It becomes about making decisions between bad decisions and worse decisions.

I ask myself: Would I have been any worse off if I had stayed home or lived on a farm instead of shock treatments and medication?

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.

There are many times when I think I would have rather died with my husband. It would have been pleasanter, simpler. But it would have been worse for the children and the family in general.

There's nothing worse than sleeping in makeup. You wake up looking like a painting that's been left out in a rainstorm.

I worship talents almost. I sinfully dare mourn that I possess them not.

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Of all ghosts the ghosts of our old loves are the worst.

Regret is the worst human emotion. If you took another road, you might have fallen off a cliff. I'm content.

Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.