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Quotes About Regret

I sort of missed one big thing, to touch first base. I hope I didn't act foolish, but this is history.
~ Mark McGwire
I doubt we will ever be forgiven. All I hope is – they'll remember we were human beings
~ Timothy Findley
I've never had any real concern about posterity. I hope some people will be sorry when I'm not here, but I'm not playing for that.
~ Elvis Costello
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
~ Jack Abramoff
Weakness, like not being able to bury the past. Weakness, like not giving up hope when you know you should.
~ Julianna Baggott, Fuse
I wonder if there was anything I would have done differently. I hope I would have done everything differently, except I know everything would have turned out the same. That's the meaning of fate.
~ Lisa See
Dan: 'Ah, well, I hope this didn't have anything to do with me.' Ellen: 'No, not unless you played Cat Woman in Batman.
~ Ellen DeGeneres
The Things that never can come back, are several - Childhood - some forms of Hope - the Dead.
~ Emily Dickinson
I smoked for almost 10 years. I really regret that. Thankfully, I came out on the other side. I hope my lungs are repairing themselves now.
~ Michelle Monaghan
Now, more than ever, I realize just how illusory my undeserved success has been. I still hold out some hope of doing better, but age and unhappiness have sapped my strength.
~ Claude Monet
I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.
~ Derek Landy
... back then the sky seemed so vast. And now the sky above me... is low, and narrow, and heavy.
~ Inio Asano, Solanin
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
~ Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
... humanity deserved to die horribly, since it had behaved so cruelly and wastefully on a planet so sweet.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The moment you betray your heart is the moment you lose everything.
~ J.A. Redmerski, The Black Wolf
Murder is always a mistake. One should never do anything that one cannot talk about after dinner.
~ Oscar Wilde
That would be a good thing for them to cut on my tombstone: Wherever she went, including here, it was against her better judgment.
~ Dorothy Parker
Four be the things I'd have been better without: love, curiosity, freckles and doubt.
~ Dorothy Parker
Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.
~ Demetri Martin
In 1969 I gave up women and alcohol - it was the worst 20 minutes of my life.
~ George Best
The Devil made me do it the first time - the second time I done it on my own
~ Billy Joe Shaver
Too often, the opportunity knocks, but by the time you push back the chain, push back the bolt, unhook the two locks and shut off the burglar alarm, it's too late.
~ Rita Coolidge
I'm fairly certain that YOLO is just Carpe Diem for stupid people.
~ Jack Black
People have an annoying habit of remembering things they shouldn't.
~ Christopher Paolini, Eragon