Quotes About Regret

I hate nostalgia, I want nothing to do with it.

Who wants to live in the present? It's such a limiting period compared to the past.

The only reason people want to be masters of the future is to change the past.

Everybody always wanted me to be sorry, I guess, and I am. And I'm tired of it. And I want to play football and, well, if I can't I'll have to do something else.

I guess sometimes the past just catches up to you, whether you want it to or not.

You don't drink and smoke that much, and womanize that much, unless you really want to be punished, I think.

People always say it's a shame someone as talented as Ryan Giggs or George Best before him never played in a World Cup or European Championship and I don't want my name to be added to that list.

Either you let your life slip away by not doing the things you want to do, or you get up & do them

I am ashamed to be a member of the human race but I don't want to add any more to that shame, I want to scrape a little of it off.

I brainwashed youngsters into doing wrong. I want to say sorry to children everywhere for selling out to people who make millions by murdering other living creatures.

I feel with ELP that I wasn't making the most of my life and I wasn't making the most of my creativity. I was marking time. I don't want to do that. Life is to short.

That's why I made a comeback in 1988. I knew there were chances of not making it, but I didn't want to end up at sixty years old and say I should have tried when I was thirty-eight.

But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again.

Many people who want to be writers don't really want to be writers. They want to have been writers. They wish they had a book in print.

You're trying to figure out a way to go back in time and spend more time with your father. Who wouldn't want to do that?

Imagine settling for a life you can have because you don't have the courage to go after the life you really want.

I thought eventually I'd have a family and I really didn't want to be a loser like that guy in his 40s still shopping his band's shitty demo tapes around.

There is nothing on earth that could ever make me want to relive certain years of my life when I was young.

I have no intent. I have no reason to live, that's all. When I'm gone, I don't want to be remembered.

Are you curious about cutting off your finger? Do you want to know what that feels like? To me, taking drugs is the same type of thing. In the end, all that happens is you get hurt by it.

If I have a last wish, I want to remember you. In an aimless life, to not even have those memories would be hell.

I don't believe in having regrets. I believe everything happens for a reason even when we don't want it to happen. Every high and every low moment has a lesson waiting for you to find it.

I expect to pass through this world but once and therefore if there is anybody that I want to kick in the crutch I had better kick them in the crutch now, for I do not expect to pass this way again.

Behind me there are already so many memories (...) Lots of memories, but no point in remembering them, and ahead of me a long, long road with nothing to aim for ... I just don't want to go along it.