Quotes About Regret

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

Passion could lead to a place you'll regret.

I picked up the rose-colored sachet pillow on her bed. Hugging it against my flat chest, I breathed in its sweet fragrance. "I was very sassy on the phone. I'm sorry, Mom.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Life is full of different risks. And I think that, when you think about the things that you will regret when you're 80, they're almost always the things that you did not do. They're acts of omission.

I have not wasted life, but life hath wasted me.

APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offense.

I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

How strange to use "You only live once" as an excuse to throw it away.

Sometimes you wake up in the morning and wish your parents had never met.

I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life." Oliver Sacks

O: 'I don't so much fear death as I do wasting life.

What's wrong?" asked Scott. "It's the way I treated Julie, like she was the enemy. But she's not. She's the one I'm trying to save from the enemy.

LEGEND HERE The initial euphoria of being named commander in chief has long since passed for Washington, replaced by the fear that he has made a very big mistake. "I have often thought how much happier I should have been if, instead of accepting a command under such circumstances, I had taken my musket on my shoulders and entered the ranks," he has written to a friend.

Another principle: Although we all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry.

Although we all have at least the potential to make more money in the future, we can never go back and recapture time that is now gone. So it makes no sense to let opportunities pass us by for fear of squandering our money. Squandering our lives should be a much greater worry.

Eight years ago, we chanted: "Yes, we can." Today, on too many issues, we lament: "Yes, we could have—but we didn't.

Every time I see Sandy Koufax, I apologize. I always thought I was going to keep him out of the Hall of Fame.

There are not many who do leave on their own terms. I certainly didn't.

Calvin : There's no problem so awful, that you can't add some guilt to it and make it even worse.

My life needs a rewinderase button. - Calvin

I never really wanted to write a book in the first place. Never intended to do such. I feel like I wasted a lot of my life, so I didn't feel like it was worthy of a book.