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Quotes About Regret

The evil of one murder is infinite, and my guilt is like my beauty - eternal. I cannot be forgiven, for there is no one to forgive me for all I've done.
~ Anne Rice
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far.
~ Marcel Dionne
My best friend ran away with my wife, and let me tell you, I miss him.
~ Henny Youngman
The best advice I ever received? Simple: Have no regrets.
~ Richard Branson
I am truly not one to give advice. I'm divorced and I stole my best friend's husband.
~ Denise Richards
Then, with an enormous rush of meadow-filled wind, the green candle went out, and my best friend died.
~ P. C. Cast
I generally don't regret decisions that have poor outcomes for me because that's the best way you can learn.
~ RJD2
Something to remember on your birthday..Forget the past, it can't be changed..And, forget the present because I didn't get you one.
~ Brian Jones
Oh, if I had been loved at the age of seventeen, what an idiot I would be today. Happiness is like smallpox: if you catch it too soon, it can completely ruin your constitution.
~ Gustave Flaubert
One starts to get young at the age of sixty and then it is too late.
~ Pablo Picasso
I grabbed a pile of dust, and holding it up, foolishly asked for as many birthdays as the grains of dust, I forgot to ask that they be years of youth.
~ Ovid
…tomorrow was her birthday, and she was thinking how fast the years went by, how old she was getting, and how little she seemed to have accomplished. Almost twenty-five and nothing to show for it.
~ Louisa May Alcott
I shall be thirty-one next birthday. My youth is gone like a dream; and very little use have I ever made of it. What have I done these last thirty years? Precious little.
~ Charlotte Bronte
Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.
~ Mason Cooley
What I wouldn't give to be seventy again!
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
Living the past is a dull and lonely business; looking back strains the neck muscles, causing you to bump into people not going your way.
~ Edna Ferber
I have never once regretted missing a business opportunity so that I could be with my children and grandchildren.
~ Mitt Romney
If we try and fail, we have temporary disappointments. But if we do not try at all, we have permanent regrets.
~ Bernard Williams
Two roads diverged in a wood, and I took the road less traveled by and they CANCELLED MY FRIKKIN' SHOW. I totally shoulda took the road that had all those people on it. Damn.
~ Joss Whedon
Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
~ James De La Vega
None of Your Business.' It's the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.
~ Cheryl James
Every decision you make is a mistake.
~ Edward Dahlberg
Which to this day is a source of enormous guilt, because I left with three classes to go in the business school to sign a contract with 20th Century Fox.
~ Tom Selleck
I knew it would break his heart if I didn't go into the business.
~ Ida Lupino