Quotes About Regret

People are all over the world telling their one dramatic story and how their life has turned into getting over this one event. Now their lives are more about the past than their future.

I wanted to destroy everything beautiful I'd never have.

You're always haunted by the idea you're wasting your life.

It can only take a moment to waste the rest of your life.

Maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

If you died right now, how would you feel about your life?

The future is just wasted on some people.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.

It only takes one mistake and nothing else you ever do will matter. No matter how hard you work or how smart you become, you'll always be known for that one poor choice.

If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.

The only person we'll hate more than each other is ourselves.

It's funny how you never think about the women you've had. It's always the ones who get away that you can't forget.

There are worse things you can do to people you love than kill them.

There's no way you can get the past right. You can pretend. You can delude yourself, but you can't re-create what's over.

No matter how careful you are, there's going to be the sense you missed something, the collapsed feeling under your skin that you didn't experience it all. There's that fallen heart feeling that you rushed right through the moments where you should have been paying attention. Well get used to that feeling. That's how your whole life will feel like someday.

It's not true that your life flashes before your eyes when you die. At least, not all of it. Some of your life might flash. Other portions of your life it might take you years and years to recall. That, I think, is the function of Hell: It's a place of remembering. Beyond that, the purpose of Hell is not so much to forget the details of our lives as it is to forgive them.

It's just the biggest mistake I could think to make

Just let yourself be broken and humiliated. Just your whole life, keep telling people, I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry. I'm sorry...

Kill me if I ever look that Bad . . . Dude, what are you saying? . . . On the TV? That is you, dude. From like five years ago.

Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.

This is some­thing I'll go to Hell for.

I spent my life attacking everything because I was too afraid to risk creating anything... Nothing was ever good enough, my mom says, so here at the end of my life, I'm left with nothing.

The mistakes we make in our youth, she said solemnly, we pay for with the rest of our lives.