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Quotes About Regret

I didn't mean—
~ Tim Green
You ate your sister's guppies
~ Tim Green
You know, I really wish now I'd had the nerve to become an actor. Because I'd have been Robert Redford, no question.
~ Michael Morpurgo
There's no question we made a couple mistakes there at UCLA at the very end.
~ Ben Howland
Nobody wants an apology letter 14 years later.
~ Lennon Parham
There is no 'Bat Out of Hell III.' That should have never happened. To me, that record is nonexistent. It doesn't exist.
~ Meat Loaf
Nostalgia is always doomed and dooming.
~ Sherman Alexie
Nostalgia is something we think of as fuzzy. But it's pain. Pain concerning the past.
~ Peter Carey
I'm not nostalgic for my glory days in college. It was lame for me. Probably because I had no friends.
~ Alex Honnold
It's very intense to go back to the past and revive work that I've already experienced and moved forward from. It's like seeing an old girlfriend - awkward at times, nostalgic at times and downright maddening and embarrassing.
~ Barry McGee
I have always kept notes and have kept letters from my friends and mother, which is rather depressing, as it takes you to the past.
~ Amitava Kumar
My second, third and fourth novels were mistakes, essentially.
~ John Burnside
I shouldn't have left Nash in the sense that he's special as a player. You've got to nurture that. But New York was great for me.
~ Mike D'Antoni
I feel like my career has been a series of glowing obituaries.
~ Michael Ian Black
Of all the objects of hatred, a woman once loved is the most hateful.
~ Max Beerbohm
I'm really obsessed with the past.
~ Fisher Stevens
I became obsessed with all these women who die never feeling they did anything extraordinary with their lives.
~ Salma Hayek
I made a lot of mistakes. And obviously, it cost me.
~ Allen Iverson
Obviously my last two years in the NFL were not much fun at all.
~ Steve Spurrier
There are so many occasions when I'd like to go back in time and have a word with myself.
~ Sara Cox
Another occupation might have been better.
~ F. H. Bradley
He himself has thinned out to the vanishing point of being only decisions once made that he can't do anything about ever after.
~ Norman Maclean
That was how the tears went down Cherry's face...a teaspoon full of ten years' sorrow.
~ Norman Mailer
the Waldorf looked like one of the dead and empty spaces which collect about the exit of a man who has lost a million in an hour.
~ Norman Mailer