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Quotes About Regret

Charlie didn't want to give up meat and smoking. Now he's gone.
~ Lesley Stahl
In truth, I don't want to be there. I don't want to see the light go out of my brother's eyes.
~ Lurlene McDaniel
It's a sad thing to watch your best friend turn into somebody you don't know anymore. Or even want to know.
~ Robert Goolrick
Every time I hangout with Sandra Bullock I think I want to be her. I want to be married to Jesse James.
~ Ryan Reynolds
I want you to admit just once what you feel for me. I want to know if you'll miss me even a little. If you'll remember me. If you're sorry for anything.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Life is short. You better get out there and do what you want to do while you can.
~ Tony Gonzalez
What I'm certain I don't want is to find myself someday in a new century, an old bitter woman looking back, wishing that right now I'd had more nerve.
~ Charles Frazier
but nothing can be taken back, not the leaves by the trees, the rain by the clouds. You want to take back the ugly thing you said, but some shrapnel remains in the wound, some mud.
~ Dean Young
I didn't want to see you." "They told me." "I was afraid that I'd still love you." "I hoped that you would.
~ Orson Scott Card
I still love him. And here's the worst part. I want him back. - Ree
~ Susane Colasanti
I'll do whatever you want, whatever you need. Anything. Just take me back.
~ Sylvia Day
I had always been in love with him. I counted the lashes of each closed eye. He had been my almost, my might have been, and I did not want to leave him
~ Alice Sebold
Grief, I swear to God, doesn't live in the heart. It lives in the senses. And sometimes, all I want to do is cut off my nose so I can't smell her, hack my fingers off at the joint.
~ Dennis Lehane
It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.
~ Edward Gibbon
The books one has written in the past have two surprises in store: one couldn't write them again, and wouldn't want to.
~ Jean Rostand
A lot of people want to die for a lot of reasons.
~ Johnny Thunders
I believed that doing what the other person wanted was love. I did that, and for more than a thousand years I have regretted it. I don't want to repeat the same mistake.
~ Kim Dong-joo
December is a month that is rife with nostalgia. If there's anything deep in your heart that you want to keep buried, you can count on December to bring it to the surface.
~ Lois Duncan
I don't want to make the same mistakes I've made before. I want to be free. I want to be with you. We will be together. I believe I will have less to live for, if I am not with you.
~ Melissa de la Cruz
If I don't survive," I say, "tell Tobias I didn't want to leave him.
~ Veronica Roth
As soon as I walk out that door, you're gonna decide you want me back. You might even tell yourself that you're in love with me. But you're not. You never will be.
~ Lauren Conrad
I love you. And I want you, too. But. However. Unfortunately...
~ Megan McCafferty
I want you more than I should," she heard herself say. "I have you less than I want.
~ Nora Roberts
"I don't like this," he said. "I don't like knowing you can't forgive me, Claire. Please, I said I was sorry, what do you want me to do? Beg? I will. I'll get on my knees right here if you want."
~ Rachel Caine