Quotes About Regret

I thought about going back to working at the gas station. I probably didn't like it at the time, but now it seems very romantic.

My work was done, so it was time to start digging my grave again.

I never get over feeling bad about tearing open a beautifully wrapped present. It takes ten seconds to destroy a work of art that took someone ten minutes to accomplish.

I never wanted to look back on my career and be embarrassed about work that I chose to do.

I know it's an artistic cliche, but every time I look at my past work, I want to projectile vomit.

Repentance, to be of any avail, must work a change of heart and conduct.

As it was, I realized choosing the study of Chinese literature as my life's work was probably a mistake.

I should have written more. I should have written more during the period when I just liked so much doing the political work in the streets.

I don't work hard enough. If I had worked harder I might have been prime minister.

Every house we have lived in, every building to which our hands have lent their work, belongs to us by virtue of love or of regret.

'I tried and it didn't work' is a lot better than, 'I wish I'd tried'.

College is like a woman: you work so hard to get in, and nine months later you wish you'd never come. We used to say if a frog had side pockets, he'd carry a handgun.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

There is a phrase in French, which means 'to miss.' To pass by. To not be able to stop. You love someone and someone loves you, but it just can't work for different reasons.

The time to work is shorter all the time and if you waste it you ... have committed a sin for which there is no forgiveness.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

In terms of work, I never felt that I've done it right. I always want to have done it differently, to have done it better, a different way.

Our days are filled with a constant stream of decisions. Most are mundane, but some are so important that they can haunt you for the rest of your life.

If you were to ask me about a mistake I have made, it's calling my fourth album, 'New Jersey', because for the first time in my life, we were compared to the E Street Band.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

For the saddest epitaph which can be carved in memory of a vanished freedom is that it was lost because its possessors failed to stretch forth a saving hand while there was still time.

Do you know what, before 'Strictly,' I've always regretted not training as a dancer.

Maybe that's my only remorse, not having played more alongside Ibrahmovic towards the end of my career with Milan. We had an incredible feeling - he was delighted when I scored and I think we were made to play together and be a strike partnership.

I didn't call for a ballot at the start of the miners' strike in 1984. I'll regret that until my dying day.