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Quotes About Regret

Don't wear excessive make-up as you grow older. Young women can wear whatever make-up they want, but if you are older, you will regret it.
~ Carolina Herrera
I wouldn't want my daughters to date a guy like me. I was dangerous around women in my twenties. I'm terrified that they might end up with someone like me.
~ Antonio Banderas
Oh, Jo, how could you? Your one beauty.
~ Louisa May Alcott
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.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I wish Adam had died with all his ribs in his body.
~ Dion Boucicault
I didn't want to be one of those women who wake up at 63 years old and realize they've missed the window of opportunity for marriage and children.
~ Alanis Morissette
Not everybody believes in ghosts, but I do. Do you know what they are, Trisha? She had shaken her head slowly. Men and women who can't get over their past . . . That's what ghosts are.
~ Stephen King
The short bloom of our brief and narrow life flies fast away. While we are calling for flowers and wine and women, old age is upon us.
~ Juvenal
Often, the roles I'm offered in England are melancholic women who are filled with regret for the past, regret for their fading beauty.
~ Kristin Scott Thomas
The one charm about the past is that it is the past. But women never know when the curtain has fallen.
~ Oscar Wilde
I regret losing certain women, but it was always my fault.
~ Scott Baio
Young people in general - and young women in particular - need to understand that they cannot retrieve in their forties the opportunities they threw away in their twenties.
~ Thomas Sowell
Men ruin themselves headlong for unworthy women.
~ Wilkie Collins
On the 25th anniversary of 16 Days of Activism Against Gender Violence, let us remember that we have a chance to save lives! If we don't take it, we may regret it!
~ Widad Akreyi
If you don't build your dreams, regret will build your nightmares.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
I ask you, what would you do if you could erase one bad memory and retain all that was beautiful in your life? Would you not move heaven and earth - and get loads of therapy - to have that?
~ Noorilhuda, Catharsis
Her husband seemed to her now like a person whom she had married without love as an excuse.
~ Kate Chopin, The Awakening
Worry makes you weaker, regret makes you sadder, hate makes you angrier, but hope makes you stronger, and love makes you happier.
~ Matshona Dhliwayo
Men never forget true love. They always remember all the women they couldn't have.
~ Ljupka Cvetanova, The New Land
If you think you can kiss her, you probably could have ten minutes ago.
~ Mark Manson
One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.
~ Shannon L. Alder
As dogs return to their vomit, some men return to their wives.
~ Anthony Liccione
When you marry a woman out of pity, then its a pity that you'll send her away very soon.
~ Michael Bassey Johnson
I played to the best of my ability. Played to win and was fortunate enough to have won a Stanley Cup and a couple gold medals and played on some really good teams... I'm not going to look back and say I wish I could have done this or that.
~ Chris Pronger