Quotes About Regret

Everything was my fault. I was so dumb. But if I hadn't made the mistakes I made, I wouldn't have met the wonderful woman I've been married to for over 30 years, so I guess that makes the mistakes OK.

I felt that some of my work was OK. If I could do it over, I'd do better.

I think losing my father was OK in the sense that it's cool for me not to have a father; it's normal. I'm supposed to bury my father. But what I didn't realize was that my father was my best friend, and that still gets me... that still irritates me a lot.

I don't want to die an old lady.

You know, I don't mind dying. The thing that pisses me off is that I won't get to be an old man. I was looking forward to that.

I don't want to be an old man some day and look it up and see some episode of one of the shows I did and go, 'ugh,' and be disappointed in myself.

I blame my grandfather 100 percent for his oldest son's death. I don't think there's any ambiguity there.

My biggest loss was the Olympics. I just can't forget losing. I never will.

It's one of the biggest disappointments of my boxing career, not going to the Olympics.

I once had those really short Angelina Jolie in 'Girl, Interrupted' bangs - and that was a mistake for me.

The law seemed to be always what I came back to. I have never, one day in my life as a lawyer, regretted my decision to become a lawyer.

I learned everything I know from leaving the E Street Band. And of course, one of the things I learned is, I never should have left.

You only live one time, and I'm not going to be the type of person to say, 'I wish I did this' or 'I wish I tried that.'

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

There's only one thing I never did and wish I had done: climbed over a fence.

There is only one thing I want. I would like to be seriously ill, and to hear nothing more about him for at least a week. Why doesn't something happen to me? Why do I have to go through all this? If only I had never set eyes on him!

I choose totally by instinct. And the only time I've ever gone against my instincts, I've regretted it.

I worshipped you too much. I am punished for it. You worshipped yourself too much. We are both punished.

In fact, now you mention the subject, I have been very bad in my own small way. I don't think you should be so proud of that, though I am sure it must have been very pleasant.

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

I remember your saying once that there is a fatality about good resolutions—that they are always made too late. Mine certainly were.

To get back one's youth, one has merely to repeat one's follies.

I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.