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Quotes About Regret

I ought to have more love before I die. I've not had enough.
~ Alasdair Gray
But whenever you think, 'this is an exciting idea' and immediately follow that by thinking, 'this is a very stupid idea' then you know you are on to a good thing and that you will regret it if you wimp out.
~ Alastair Humphreys
Nothing had ever existed between us except the possibility of something, and now even that was over.
~ Alastair Reynolds
There's such a thing as free will, Tanner. You didn't have to go along with me, unless you want to admit your brain is ruled by your dick. And I didn't get the impression you regretted any of that.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I'd sliced his head off because in that moment I couldn't think of anything simpler or more beautiful to do.
~ Alastair Reynolds
But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won't be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You'll carry for it for ever, when you could have had a few more years of blissful innocence. Are you sure, now?
~ Alastair Reynolds
We should have brought a torch," he was saying. "We have been to Saturn and back and we didn't bring a torch.
~ Alastair Reynolds
Sluka shook her head. "We're talking about them in the past tense, and we never even discussed them in the present. It's like their only reason for existing was so they could die.
~ Alastair Reynolds
I got confused. I thought it was a K.Y. scare, so I bought 2000 jars of personal lubricant. I still have some.
~ Julie Brown
Personally, I had over 550 BTC in Gox. I will never get any of that back.
~ Erik Voorhees
I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.
~ David Crosby
I was persuaded to see 'The Muppets' by a friend, and I regretted it. A very boring hour and a half.
~ Greg Rutherford
The worst loss in my career - the 2002 World Championship final against Peter Ebdon.
~ Stephen Hendry
I went through a phase where I thought it was really funny to make pratfalls in very crowded places. I jumped out of a moving car once, for a laugh. That was a mistake.
~ Paul Rudd
I wish the 'Dark Phoenix' saga had been done more effectively than it was, but that was out of my hands.
~ Chris Claremont
I lost a good friend a few years ago, and it happened quite suddenly. Any event like that leaves you with questions. Would a phone call have made a difference? Did the person know that you were there for them?
~ Richard Ashcroft
A lot of times as an actor you watch a film it's like thumbing through a photo book from your past. It's people you haven't seen in a while, there are people that have passed away, and there are people you owe phone calls to.
~ Dante Basco
I started having anxiety attacks and panic attacks. I would cry myself to sleep every night and wish I could go back in time and get my life back and be a human again instead of a photo op.
~ Momina Mustehsan
I have a hard time watching the shows now. It is like opening up a yearbook when you were in junior high. I think everybody looks back at their photos and cringe, and I get to experience it with everybody else in the world looking at mine.
~ Mark-Paul Gosselaar
It's like those high-school yearbook photos that everyone would rather not see: Oh my God, look at that mullet hair. I have those photos too, but for me, they're, like, entire movies. And they show them on cable.
~ John Cusack
I made a lot of not-so-fashionable choices in my life. I see all of those photos that are on the Internet forever.
~ Lzzy Hale
There's nothing I find quite as annoying as the phrase 'I told you so.'
~ Ayelet Waldman
I wore myself out physically and mentally over my career, and I couldn't be there for my daughters in ways I should have been.
~ Darcey Bussell
If I had an extra 20 or 50 years physically, I could have been the dancer of my dreams. But I never became that dancer.
~ Erik Bruhn