Quotes About Regret

I like to have Chinese furniture in my home as a constant and painful reminder of how much has been destroyed in China. The contrast between the beauty of the past and the ugliness of the modern is nowhere sharper than in China.

I said something really stupid once. I told a friend that my mother was so beautiful, but my dad was ugly. My dad heard it and just laughed it off, but I felt guilty. It haunted me for years. I should never have said that.

You look back and you remember the good, the bad and the ugly.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

I once owned a really, really ugly pair of white leather boots. They were so bad. It was back in the '80s! It was just a really tacky fashion choice when I was in middle school, and I thought it was cool. I'm really embarrassed.

The biggest mistakes I made in my career were when I said, 'If I do this movie, I'll be able to do a couple more movies.' Those are the times I really got ugly.

I was so beautiful when I was young. And I took so few photos because I felt so skinny and ugly. I wish I'd just taken a few more shots.

I've told lots of lies in my life. I try not to lie, but I still do. It's very difficult to get to 37 and not be ashamed of something you've done. But I think your life is easier, ultimately, if you're honest.

I think the fall in Eden was ultimately a failure to give thanks.

I think, ultimately, looking back now, acting wasn't satisfying me 100%.

The greatest tragedy in life is that some prayers go unanswered as they go unasked.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

The idea of your younger sibling being in pain and realizing you are the cause of that pain is unbearable.

There are a lot of movies that are unbelievable successes that I would be mortified to be a part of.

The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It's my fault. But I shouldn't have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.

I remember being unbelievable bummed when 'Freaks and Geeks' was canceled.

It's been a while since I've been to church, but you don't get unborn again.

He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

If I had known they were going to do this, I would have become a shoemaker.

Why do people have memories? It would be easier to die - anything to stop remembering.

I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict.

Send for a clergyman, I wish to be baptised. I have been basely murdered.

This is our fault. My fault as much as the next man's, because even if I was against the war, I didn't do enough to stop it.