Quotes About Regrets

My characters tend to be people who are looking back on a life lived, their joys, their regrets.

Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.

I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

I've always been proud of my character and how I live my life. So my regrets are few, and the ones I do have, I'm glad I have.

I'm very lucky, I'm happy with life because my experiences led me to do what I had to do. I don't have any regrets whatsoever.

I don't know if I have any regrets, I have had a pretty successful life. I have learned good, bad, and ugly.

The libertarian can have no truck with 'left' or 'right' because he regrets any form of authoritarianism - the use of police force to control the creative life of man.

Having regrets is the only sign that you've done anything interesting with your life.

I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

And I, who have the world in my pocket, can bring them nothing to comfort their disappointment or reward their optimism, but supplicate the fatted calf which they killed so often before and so in vain. Parents' imaginations build frameworks out of their own hopes and regrets into which children seldom grow, but instead, contrary as trees, lean sideways out of the architecture, blown by a fatal wind their parents never envisaged.

Parents' imaginations build frameworks out of their own hopes and regrets into which children seldom grow, but instead, contrary as trees, lean sideways out of the architecture, blown by a fatal wind their parents never envisaged.

guess many of us have regrets, he wrote, but my regrets seem to grow as I get older.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

the gnashing of teeth, the hissing of fire, the reeking sighs abate. All filthy memories fade out. My last regrets scamper off. . . . A spiritual battle is as brutal as a battle of men.

The past is just that.

Every man's road in life is marked by the graves of his personal liking.

A life worth living might be measured in many ways, but the one way that stands above all others is living a life of no regrets.

You're old when your dreams become regrets

It was a wonderful experience to play in the NFL, and I have no regrets. I truly will miss playing for the Lions. I consider the Lions' players, coaches, staff, management and fans my family. I leave on good terms with everyone in the organization.

It has been a wonderful life for me. It's just been a blessing. I can't say I would have done it any other way. I have no regrets. I like what I do.

I'm an eternal optimist. I've no regrets. I've people who love me. I've a wonderful life. I'm grateful for what I have.

The young have aspirations that never come to pass, the old have reminiscences of what never happened.