Quotes About Regret

My worst investment decision so far is to lend money to friends. So far, it has all come to zero.

Romero, I was beating him two rounds to zero, I was dominating the whole fight. He was able to catch me with a punch with about a minute left. If I would have just danced around for a minute, I would have got that win.

I look at my gorgeous girl and boy, with their incredible zest for life, and I count my undoubted blessings. But there's no question about it: I wish I'd started my family sooner. Much much sooner.

Things past redress are now with me past care.

Sudden acquaintance brings repentance.

The man who has done nothing but wait for his ship to come in has already missed the boat.

What's done can't be undone.

When Eve upon the first of men The apple pressed with specious cant, Oh! what a thousand pities then That Adam was not adamant.

Adam ate the apple, and our teeth still ache.

The keenest sorrow is to recognize ourselves as the sole cause of all our adversities.

Things have got to be wrong in order that they may be deplored.

Remorse begets reform.

Growing old is like being increasingly penalized for a crime you have not committed.

If I'd known I was gonna live this long (100 years), I'd have taken better care of myself.

I think one reason we admire cats, those of us who do, is their proficiency in one-upmanship. They always seem to come out on top, no matter what they are doing - or pretend they do. Rarely do you see a cat discomfited. They have no conscience, and they never regret. Maybe we secretly envy them.

Don't be afraid your life will end; be afraid it will never begin.

A bachelor is a souvenir of some woman who found a better one at the last minute.

Women, don't get a tattoo. That butterfly looks great on your breast when you're twenty or thirty, but when you get to be seventy, it stretches into a condor.

Ennui has made more gamblers than avarice, more drunkards than thirst, and perhaps as many suicides as despair.

A Christian is a man who feels Repentance on a Sunday For what he did on Saturday And is going to do on Monday.

A ceremony of self-wastage - good talkers are miserable, they know that they have betrayed themselves, that they have taken material which should have a life of its own, to disperse it in noises upon the air.

Just for a handful of silver he left us, Just for a ribbon to stick in his coat.

Many women miss their greatest chance of happiness through a want of courage in a decisive moment.

People "died" all the time. ... Parts of them died when they made the wrong kinds of decisions-decisions against life. Sometimes they died bit by bit until finally they were just living corpses walking around. If you were perceptive you could see it in their eyes; the fire had gone out ... you always knew when you made a decision against life. ... The door clicked and you were safe inside- safe and dead.