Quotes About Regret

But the way I see it, dying without knowing love would be a tragedy.

If you are not happy for a minute, then you lost 60 seconds of happiness in your life

The secret of life is to say yes all the time, because when you're old, you don't want to say, 'I wish I'd done this, I wish I had done that.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I should have shot you when I had the chance.

What is the tactful, the effective way of announcing that your life's work has been wasted?

He sido malo por muchos caminos y habiendo dejado de ser malo, no soy bueno, porque he dejado el mal de cansado y no de arrepentido.

He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future.

Qué raro que se muera alguien en vendimia. Siempre la gente lo deja para después.

After the temper subsides and one has a moment to calmly reflect, it isn't uncommon for declarations shouted in a fit of rage to strike one as untrue, and because they may have been hurtful to family, friends, lovers, husbands, or wives, one wishes them unsaid.

La ?aptezeci ?i doi de ani, viitorul e ceea ce jelesc. Din facultate n-am uitat-o niciodat? pe Ma?a în Pesc?ru?ul spunând Sunt în doliu dup? via?a mea.

definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.

always regretted that good memory often prevents us from thinking for ourselves.

You're beginning to get the idea, Clark. We could have changed the world…now…look at us…I've become a political liability…and…you…you're a joke. I want you to remember, Clark…in all the years to come…in your most private moments…I want you to remember…my hand…at your throat…I want…you to remember…the one man who beat you.

I felt bad, but I did it anyway, because I'm only human. I was ashamed of myself and depressed afterward, though, which is human, too, I guess. Being human is an excuse for just about everything, but it also kind of sucks in a way.

I wonder who's kissing her now, Wonder who's teaching her how.

Let's imagine I happen to be writing some sort of truth here. By the time you read this, I might have changed my mind. Ten years from now, I would likely put it differently. By then I may regret that I wrote this. And regardless of how I feel then, I'll bet that if you reread my book twenty years from now, you'll have changed, so the book will have changed, too. So much for changeless truth.

The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.

You only live once, and the way I live, once is enough.

I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day.

Sometimes you don't realize you've crossed a line until you're on the other side and can't go back.

If I had known it was the end, would I have done it any different?

I was a baby when I came into the world--otherwise I might have been smart enough to become a different person.

It's better to have something to remember than anything to regret.