Quotes About Regret

I married an asshole, she thought, knifing into the waves.

Whatever happens, I'm glad we ate that bleeping lizard.

Maureen closed her eyes. Listen to me, Earl. It's yourself you ought to be thinking about. Life goes by so darn fast, every wasted moment is a crime. One blue eye opened and fixed on him. And every crime is a wasted moment.

Maggad glances nervously around. He's well on the way to regretting this incursion into the newsroom, where he stands out like the proverbial turd in the punch bowl. He might own the place, but he doesn't belong.

The family was jolted when, at age fifty-three, Huff Cornbright perished on an autumn steelhead trip to British Columbia. Swept downstream while wading the Dean River, he foolishly clung to his twelve-hundred-dollar fly rod rather than reach for a low-hanging branch and haul himself to safety.

the hopeless sense of a civilization destroyed for nothing; the knowledge that we could have prevented it and did not.

I have only one regret," he had said in his gravelly voice. "My daughter married a Bulgarian.

The past is a bucket of ashes

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!

Youth must be wanton, youth must be quick, Dance to the candle while lasteth the wick, Youth must be foolish and mirthful and blind, Gaze not before and glance not behind, Mark not the shadow that darkens the way- Regret not the glitter of any lost day, But laugh with no reason except the red wine, For youth must be youthful and foolish and blind!

BRICK [to the moon]: I envy you--you cool son of a bitch.

you've gone past something you couldn't afford to go past; your time, your youth, you've passed it. It's all you had, and you've had it.

Why didn't it happen between us? Why did I fail? Why did you come close enough...and not closer?

You are the only young man that I know of who ignores the fact that the future becomes the present, the present the past, and the past turns into everlasting regret if you don't plan for it!

Hanging onto a bad buy will not redeem the purchase.

Terri Blackstock

It wouldn't be worth going on." The words caught in her throat, and tears sprang to her eyes. "I know it all sounds far-fetched. I've thought that too. That my mistakes … and there are an awful lot of them … couldn't possibly be erased clean. That Jesus couldn't possibly forgive them. But I think that's the whole point of why he came.

Sometimes missing things was the next best thing to having them.

there is no greater misery than to remember, with bitter regret, a day when you were happy 

He had never come back to anything. The past was never his concern.

Nevertheless, it was a terrible mistake on my part.

Well, that's what you did when things went wrong. You thought about what you would do if you had that second chance you would never get.

It was a waste of time to wish that things had happened differently.

The sun has already set on the days we made those choices. We must concentrate on what we can do tomorrow; we can't relive yesterday.