Quotes About Regret

I know what I did to you was so wrong, but at the time it also felt so necessary to my survival. I don't know if those two things can both be true, but that's how it was.

It's never as good the second time. Things don't get better. You can't always go back, a lot of it has been erased. The photograph is a record of it having existed.

He that hath time and looks for better time, time comes that he repents himself of time.

I don't want to die saying but, you know? There's so much I want to do, so I want more time.

The only time I ever went hunting I remembered it as a grisly experience.

But how many moments are already past! Ah! who thinks of those that are past?

The Bush administration made us nostalgic for ... well, any other time in history.

he who finds he has wasted a shilling may by diligence hope to fetch it up again; but no repentance or industry can ever bring back one wasted hour.

In vain would I seek to discover Why sad and mournful am I, My thoughts without ceasing brood over A tale of the time gone by.

I'm certainly not sorry that there were some things I missed. You may think you're missing something at that time but later when you look at it, you didn't miss anything.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

I heard this expression once: Each time someone dies, a library burns. I'm watching it burn right to the ground.

Each time someone dies, a library burns.

I didn't really start publishing books until I was 40 because I was busy being a McDonald's employee. So there's always a sense of trying to make up for lost time.

I thought I'd saved Kayden that night at the pool house, but I was wrong. I just bought him time until the next windstorm swept through.

I was a really bad taxi driver. I only collided twice but it was one time too much.

I made the mistake of watching "A.I." on cable the week they showed it about 792 times, and I ended up watching it every time it was on.

Tears that are shed in time of affliction are rarely tears of penitence, but more likely they are shed out of self pity and pain or sorrow.

A lifetime is so little a time that we die before we get ready to live. I should like to study at a college, but then I have to say to myself: "You will die before you can do anything else".

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

Now go stand in the corner and think about what you did.

Alas! with all her reasoning, she found, that to retentive feelings eight years may be little more than nothing.

He who knows most grieves most for wasted time.