Quotes About Regret

Folly is that wisdom which is wise only behindhand.

The tragedy of life is not so much what men suffer, but rather what they miss.

I've got a record titled 'Idols Become Rivals,' and it's basically me writing a letter to someone in the game that I looked up to damn near the most, and I hate what things have come to.

I miss her in my bones. I was her big brother. I was supposed to protect her - I could not... It very nearly destroyed me.

The beginning of atonement is the sense of its necessity.

I met Richard Burton, an RAF cadet on a two-term course. I would have flirted more enthusiastically if it had not been for the horrid boils on the back of his neck.

You know, I can't tell you that I'm very fond of anything I've done, including - and especially- 'The Addams Family.' That's an albatross around my neck that I've got to get rid of somehow.

What I should have been, you see, is a neurologist.

Game after game, year after year, you never stop thinking about the balls you get your hands on and don't catch.

Anytime a curtain closes forever, that's always sad news.

I'm a failed newspaper man myself.

I know if I were to drop dead now, people would probably write nice things in the obit.

If I could do one thing over I'd have been nicer to my parents.

I have this nightmare that one day I will have to look at every picture I've ever taken with people in an airport or in bars or restaurants, and it will make me very sad.

I spent a week of my honeymoon on a cruise ship and it was a nightmare. Never again.

'Blue Nights' is a story of loss: simple, wrenching, inconsolable loss.

I have no desire to go back to San Francisco.

I will always wonder what might have been if I had faced Manny Pacquiao at my best. But there is no doubt in my mind that the Pacman will still go down as one of boxing's all-time greats.

I wish I wrote 'Don't Speak' by No Doubt. I mean, that is a classic heartbreak song; it gets me every time.

It's no fun to be miscast. The times I've done parts that I don't feel, in retrospect, I was great for - it's a very bad feeling.

No memory of having starred atones for later disregard, or keeps the end from being hard.

Frankly I never seriously read my father's books until after he died. Up to then, there had been no point.

You can't undo the past

Don't know. There's a lot of magic between you, ain't no denying that. And magic makes forgettin' hard." Tuck patted him on the back and got up to leave. It was more than he'd ever said to Dawson about Amanda. As he walked away, Dawson squinted into the sunlight and the tears started again. He knew that Amanda would always be the very best part of him, the self he would always long to know.