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Quotes About Regret

Meg! I love you! I want to marry you!" "That's weird," she said without stopping. "Only six weeks ago, you were telling me all about how Lucy broke your heart." "I was wrong. Lucy broke my brain.
~ Susan Elizabeth Phillips
People like you always want back the love they pushed aside. But people like me are gone forever when you say goodbye.
~ Taylor Swift
Every tattoo I got with them is a mark of their friendship, and almost every time I have laughed in this dark place was because of them. I don't want to lose them. But I feel like I have already.
~ Veronica Roth
Can I be forgiven for all I've done to get here? I want to be. I can. I believe it.
~ Veronica Roth
I'm sorry I kissed you- it was selfish and it upset you- but you can't ask me to pretend I didnt want to.
~ Holly Black
My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.
~ Hoodie Allen
Oh, if I had only known, if I had only been ready, our lives can really be the great adventure we so passionately want them to be.
~ Hortense Odlum
I'm not a general or a colonel or a builder of cities. I'm just a corpse who wants not to be.
~ Isaac Marion
I'm incapable of describing the feeling with which I left. I wouldn't want it ever to be repeated, but I would have considered myself unfortunate if I'd never experienced it.
~ Ivan Turgenev
Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.
~ Jessica Sanchez
The saddest thing is that when I sat down to rehearse for the Pixies, I couldn't believe that I had given up something that I loved. Now I hold the drum at night and I want to go to bed with it.
~ Joey Santiago
Did I help you to a fate you didn't want?
~ John Green
We have perhaps all said things in unguarded moments that we would not want printed in newspapers.
~ John I. Jenkins
Spending time in jail really helped me stay away from what my brother did because I got a taste of jail time. I realized this isn't the life I want to live being locked up 24 hours a day.
~ John Starks
I try not to remember the life that I didn't want to lose but lost and have to remember
~ Jonathan Safran Foer
I used to be super trendy and totally sexy. But I look back now and I used to want everything short and low cut and you really can't do it all.
~ Kim Kardashian
You asked why I couldn't forgive you," Nick said, very quietly, and I jumped a little. "It was because you were the love of my life, Harper. And you didn't want to be. That's hard to let go.
~ Kristan Higgins
This may be a thing you neither want nor need," she said. "But I'd rather you have it, wishing didn't, than not have it and wish you did.
~ Kristin Cashore
I sometimes want to make a book of every tattoo I wanted to get before I actually got a tattoo, because there were so many awful ideas and concepts.
~ Lena Dunham
Haven't you ever wished that you could steal back just a few hours of your past?" she asked softly. "That's all I want... just a little taste of what might have been.
~ Lisa Kleypas
Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.
~ Meda Chesney-Lind
Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.
~ Mikhail Gorbachev
Life is never as long as we want it to be, and wasted time can never be recovered.
~ Nora Roberts
The saddest day of your life is when you decide to sell out, and nobody wants to buy.
~ Norman Spinrad