Quotes About Regrets

The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lie. The failures, the disappointment,the regrets,they stay raw as the moment they happened. A pretty girls smile, never acted on. A petty wrong we let another take the blame for. A nameless shoulder that knocked us in a crowd and left us stewing for days, for months. For ever. This is the stuff the past is made of. The wretched moments that make us what we are. "(less) (less)

Doubts and regrets, Isern. They're the cost of casting a shadow.

But I suppose regrets at least prevent one from repeating the same mistakes.

Doubts and regrets, they're the cost of casting a shadow. The only folk without 'em are the dead. For what it's worth, I'd say you did the best you could.

Too fast?" she asked. Had he read her mind, or did he share her concerns? "Can't tell. It moves like it moves. The trick is to make the in-between time quick, but draw out every moment like this"--he leaned down, kissed her again, proving the point by keeping the kiss going long enough she was breathless when he was done--"so it feels like the kind of forever you want. Then you have no regrets.

The truth is, I'm proud of the life I've lived so far, and though I've made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets.

you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.

I've had a long life and a lot of relationships and not one of them do I wish - well, I take that back - there are a couple I could have done without.

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets -- the seventeen who got away.

I feel like I missed out on the regular high school social life, but that's the way I chose to be.

You made a decision given your life circumstances and you have to be ok with that. Regrets that can't be change is just torturing yourself.

Regrets, I've had a few but then again too few to mention. And more, much more than this, I did it my way.

When I have a child, it will be probably become my whole life, so I don't want to have any regrets that I should have done more.

I'd like to be remembered as someone that lived life by his own rules with no regrets.

I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.

You...you've been here quite a long time, haven't you?" What? Oh...yes. Ever since I married What's-her-name. Uh, Martha. Even before that. Forever. Dashed hopes, and good intentions. Good, better, best, bested. How do you like that for a declension, young man?

I have a past of making a fool of myself.

I went on the Andy Williams show, the Smothers Brothers show, and maybe I shouldn't have. But regrets - I don't think I have any.

We'd been on Geffen for a long time, and I think we felt that we needed a change. I just don't think we felt very close to the people at the label after all this time or that they understood what we were trying to do. I don't have any regrets, because at the time we signed with Geffen, it was the right thing to do.

The regrets in the theatre have always been the shows that you know ought to have worked but for one reason or another haven't.

regrets— I look back and ask myself if I didn't do a certain thing that I'm really ashamed of, how would that change the present? What would it erase from my current life? What if I hadn't been such a badass idiot back then? Would I have learned the cost of that recklessness? Would you be here? There are things I'm totally ashamed of that I wouldn't change.

haven't you ever thought about it?' Nick asked. 'What you want to leave behind, and what you don't?' 'Not really.

The practice is simply this: keep coming back to your breath during the day. Just take a moment. This will give your mind a steadiness and your breath a gracefulness.... There's so much to let go of, isn't there? Your nostalgia and your regrets. Your fantasies and your fears. What you think you want instead of what is happening right now. Breathe.