Quotes About Regret

To appear on the stage drunk, to have them leave there and remember me making drunken mistakes, that was death.

To most of us, adulthood means being able to earn a living, possess a home, get married and rear children, and this implies having autonomy or control over one's life. In the 19th century, becoming an adult was celebrated as a liberation from paternal authority. Today we regard it more as a time of regret and stagnation.

There's not a higher stake than someone having to face their own death.

'High Stakes' was a very bad movie that I was cast in as a lead.

Stalin is a shameful stain on our country's history.

I think everyone can relate to that fall from grace - having life change in an instant or having to stand for some of your bad choices, that feeling of 'Nothing is ever going to be good again.'

I cannot stand that whole game of confession, that is: Here I have sinned, now I'm confessing my sins, and describing my path of sin and then in the act of confession I beg for your forgiveness and redemption.

When the Holocaust happened, I was 15 years old. My parents kept it a secret from me, despite belonging to the Red Cross. I only found out about it much later. Even today I still feel guilty, because I was an ignoramus between the age of 15 and 25. I am sorry I couldn't stand up for them.

I, personally, have standards that I have set for myself. I'd like to achieve those and look back without regret.

Most men die at age 25, but aren't buried until 70.

Do you remember you shot a seagull? A man came by chance, saw it and destroyed it, just to pass the time.

How I regret now that my perpetual emotional dependence on the man I love has killed all my other talents - my energy too: and I had such a lot of that once.

Man, I hate waking up with a dead hooker.

There is no pain on this earth like seeing the same woman look at another man the way she once looked at you.

Men regret their life has been ill-spent, but this does not always induce them to make a better use of the time they have yet to live.

I think that if there was one mistake that I took away, it would affect the man that I am today.

I've had six or eight hookers in my life. I never woke up the next day thinking man I'm glad I got a hooker last night.

There are few pains so grievous as to have seen, divined, or experienced how an exceptional man has missed his way and deteriorated

The years leech at a man's memories, even those he has vowed never to forget.

Men love in haste, but they detest at leisure.

Men often marry in hasty recklessness and repent afterward all their lives.

Men understand the worth of blessings only when they have lost them.

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.