Quotes About Regret

It's a terrible thing, what we did, " said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it.

Would somebody please tell him whose idea it had been to kill the entire state of Colorado?

Fine. Okay. I killed her. But I didn't mean to. And I didn't kill her, kill her.""Oh, I see. As long as you didn't kill her, kill her, then that's okay.

My main regret in life is that there is no MacArthur Fellowship awarded in the field of Panda Satire.

I wrote a book on cats. In retrospect, I should have used paper, cause chapter six got hit by a car.

But even Es and cocaine, over the years they blow holes in your brain, rob you of your memories, your past. Which is fair enough, convenient even.

Christ, seven years of college, down the drain.

I went hunting, I shot a deer, and it mortified me. I just couldn't do it again.

I don't regret my votes for President Obama by any stretch of the imagination.

She was thirty-nine. No, she did not envy her eighteen-year- old self at all. But she did envy, envied every day more bitterly, that young girl's genuine independence, largeness, scope, and courage.

Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because the regret is stronger than gratitude.

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret.

Don't be afraid of death; be afraid of an unlived life. You don't have to live forever, you just have to live.

There was another life that I might have had, but I am having this one.

I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.

The worst thing one can do is not to try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized - never knowing.

One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

There is no comparison between that which is lost by not succeeding and that which is lost by not trying.

Eventually stardom is going to go away from me. It goes away from everybody and all you have in the end is to be able to look back and like the choices you made.

All you have in the end is to look back and like the choices you've made.

It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.

You will see that the things you desire most are the very things that bring you the greatest sorrow.

Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.