Quotes About Regret

and there had been times when he wished he'd been born into a different family.

And some time after midnight on that clear October evening, Noah was overcome with longing. And if anyone had seen him, they would have seen what looked like an old man, someone who'd aged a lifetime in just a couple of hours. Someone bent over in his rocker with his face in his hands and tears in his eyes. He didn't know how to stop them.

In the end, people generally regret the things they didn't do, not the things they did. (p. 96, Trevor Benson)

Sometimes, when you remember the things you used to do, it makes you wince.

he didn't think he had a problem. Because he didn't become mean or violent, he thought he didn't have a problem. Because it was usually only beer, it couldn't possibly be a problem. But it was a problem, because he'd gradually become the kind of man she couldn't have imagined marrying. She couldn't count the number of times that she'd cried about it.

You need to learn how to forgive. Ronnie was angery at herself for pushing everyone that loved her away. the theme of this book is to let everyone have a second chance. as Ronnie had learnt this by the end of the story and forgave herself and others including her father and Will.

For when it comes, she is gone, and sometimes I wonder whether she and I will ever love again.

and one of the things she had learned early in her life was that if you discovered something that made you tighten inside, you had better try to learn more about it. If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out you were wrong in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been

We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say, she mused. If only, she began for the thousandth time, the images of those days beginning to flash behind her eyes like a slide show she was powerless to stop

As the warm air blew in the car, simple snapshots of the life they'd lived together surfaced in his mind; but as always, those images led inexorably to their final day together.

I don't mourn the dead. I mourn the living.

I mourn the fact that my beautiful country has deteriorated in every way.

Sometimes, I probably do mourn the fact that I no longer make films.

I mourn for the kind of dad I didn't have; I rue my first broken family while taking joy in the one that I've made.

I had my mouth done when I was 27. It was a botched job. Obviously, if I had liked my mouth I wouldn't have had it re-done.

The Hatton fight left a bad taste in my mouth.

Once, when I was 14 I thought easily the most glamorous thing was white eyeliner inside the eye and then heavy lip liner round the mouth. I think I looked repellent.

'History Is All You Left Me' is about the loss of your first love and how you move on beyond that and if you can.

It's always been the ones that got away that stick in your memory. You use them for motivation. The ones you win are brilliant and you enjoy them, and then you move on.

When I moved to Seattle, I was hanging out with kids who had done drugs, had sex a million times. I look at them now and realize their childhood was taken away.

I wish I had been born 20 years earlier, so I could have been in the movie business in the 1970s.

I paid too much attention to boxing. I wanted to try professional boxing. That's why I didn't focus on wrestling and jiu-jitsu, and it hurt me.

I hope I haven't spent more than $1,000 on mugs.

If I could uninvent anything, I would uninvent Hitler's mum, guns and broccoli.