regret quotes

If you’re going to do something tonight that you’ll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught.

When I look back on what I did for the Left, I’m in a small way quite proud of some of it – I only wish I’d done more.

O, had I but followed the arts!

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

Everybody has done something that we wish we didn’t say or do and wish we could take it back.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

Well, I screwed it up real good, didn’t I?

Most people have the opportunity of a lifetime flash right in front of them, and they fail to see it. A year later, they find out about it, after everyone else got rich.

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

I let the American people down.

Why regret anything? Where does it get you to regret anything you’ve ever done in your life? It gets you nowhere. It’s a pathetic emotion that you can wallow in.

I would hear stories about Steve Jobs and feel like he was at 100 percent exactly what he wanted to do, but I’m sure even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Rick Owens has compromised. You know, even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don’t even know when you’re being compromised till after the fact, and that’s what you regret.

It creeps me out sometimes to think of the person I was. I was a terrible person. I was mean to people.

Naturally, everybody has certain things they wish they hadn’t done in life. They wish they hadn’t kicked their dog when they were ten or something.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

I’ve always regretted that I never was able to talk openly with my parents, especially with my father. I’ve heard and read so many things about my family that I can no longer believe anything; every relative I question has a completely different story from the last.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.

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

Do not ask for what you will wish you had not got.

I don’t think that much about my relationship with my mother and what it did to me. I sometimes feel terrible regret about her, what her life must have been like. Often, when I’m enjoying something, I think of how meager her rewards were and how much courage, in a way, she needed to go on living.

I declared bankruptcy, and that was the worst thing I ever should have done.

I don’t regret anything.

We have wasted History like a bunch of drunks shooting dice back in the men’s crapper of the local bar.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

The one thing I regret was that my work required an enormous amount of my time, and a lot of travel.

Shall I, that have destroyed my Preservers, return home?

Oh! Most miserable wretch that I am! Why have I not learnt how to swim?

I’ve done a lot of things I’m not proud of, such as getting my girlfriend pregnant when I was 23 and the way I handled that.

My one big regret is that I didn’t play on for ten more years.