Quotes About Regret

The ability to apologize sincerely and express regret for the unskillful things we say or do is an art. A true apology can relieve a great deal of suffering in the other person.

We fall back into the past, we jump ahead into the future, and in this we lose our entire lives.

Sometimes we don't want to move, speak, or act like that. But something deep inside us pushes us to speak and act in that way. Afterward, we feel so ashamed.

I was a bad journalist.

I can remember how rude I could be at times to journalists and people phoning up for advice.

You don't have the judgment after you've had the drink. If something truly catastrophic had happened that evening, I don't know how I could have lived with myself. I feel like I've gotten a second chance.

My father was a genius footballer, a natural, two-footed centre-forward who had played for Arsenal juniors, but he was sent out to work aged 14 and so lived out his life in a frustrated, rageful way.

I'm like the drunk in the bar who wants just one more for the road.

Personally, I think it would have been really nice, if 'Lost' had just one season.

My loss to Marquardt was just one of those things. I made a mistake and got caught. I think I had a lot more to offer in that fight, but he caught me before I had a chance to show it.

Some of the things I've done, like getting Justin Edinburgh sent off in the cup final by going down, I'm embarrassed - I cringe when I see all that.

I don't want to turn 50 and say, 'Gosh, I wish I'd lived in that part of the world for a time. I wish I'd read that book by Faulkner.' I want time to delve back into Thoreau and Kafka.

I know I'm one of the biggest busts in NBA history, and I know it will only get worse as Kevin Durant continues doing big things.

Bill Goldberg kicked me in the head and ended my career because he didn't know what he was doing.

I was into sports in high school, but I got kicked out of Richmond High at 17, so I never graduated. However, I still get invites to the class reunions... I don't know that I want to see how everyone looks now.

I kicked off... and things went on from there... down and down.

I'd do anything to have more kids. But that's probably not gonna happen now.

Guilt is a serious appetite killer.

If I look forward to a day when I'm just going to play tennis, I'm kinda sad.

I should have been kinder when I was younger.

The death of kings can be recited, but not of one's child.

I had my first kiss when I was 11, but I think I've blocked it out of my mind because it was so bad. I'm not even sure it counts as a kiss.

There was a girl I was best friends with at college; I always used to kiss the boys she liked. I'd like to apologise to her.

If I've ever regretted anything, it was putting all my eggs in one basket, holing up and kneeling at the altar of literature, instead of going out and at least reviewing, running around and trying to write for magazines. That would've been the intelligent thing to do, but I didn't, and that was because of fanaticism.