Quotes About Regret

I wanna never have birth and fail as a father. I would never want the illness that killed in my Nana

Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.

If thou hast sinned, lie not down without repentance; for the want of repentance, after one has sinned, makes the heart yet harder and harder.

Just do whatever you want to in life. One day tomorrow won't be there.

You only live once. You don't want your tombstone to read: 'Played it Safe.'

It's too late to fall in love with Sharon Tate / But it's too soon to ask me for the words I want carved on my tomb.

If Romeo had never met Juliet, maybe they both would have still been alive, but what they would have been alive for is the question Shakespeare wants us to answer.

And yet it disturbs me to learn I have hurt someone unintentionally. I want all my hurts to be intentional.

You only live once, and I just don't want to waste a minute of my life.

I write, "Give me reason but don't give me choice, because I'll make the same mistake again." I think that's what most men want to be told.

The major thing I'm afraid of is being 65 and saying, 'Gee, I wish I had done this and that, and that.' I want to face old age knowing I've tried all I wanted to try.

When I was Younger, I wanted to be something.Now, I just want to be younger.

When you look for independence and you get what you want, how come you look back thinking what have I done?

Most investors want to do today what they should have done yesterday.

The forgiveness of God is one thing, but the proof that we want that forgiveness is the energy we expend to make amends for the wrong.

I should have done it years ago. It's amazing I didn't even want cigarettes anymore.

If the Good Lord made a mistake in us people it was in making us want to live when we've got the least excuse for it.

If I could live my life over again, there is one thing I would change. I would want to be able to eat less.

Perhaps my best years are gone. When there was a chance of happiness. But I wouldn't want them back. Not with the fire in me now. No, I wouldn't want them back.

JUDAS: Why ... didn't you make me good enough ... so that you could've loved me?

Do you know who W.H. Auden was, Mr. Iscariot? W.H. Auden was a poet who once said, "God may reduce you on Judgement Day to tears of shame reciting by heart the poems you would have written had your life been good"…She was my poem, Mr. Iscariot. Her and the kids. But mostly her. You cashed in for silver, Mr. Iscariot. But me? Me…I threw away gold. That's a fact. That's a natural fact.

Living a regret-free life means being honest about everything you did to help create your regrets and honest about how you felt when someone else was hurtful to you.

There's never a better time to be that person than when you're in a relationship that you want to become a source of peace and productivity rather than anger and regret.

Want to please God? Then go back over the history that's causing you regret and honestly face every single moment of it.