John Rzeznik Quotes

One thing I can tell you for sure is this: we only regret what we don't do in life.

I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.

I never want to look back on life and say I wish I did something, and I don't want anybody else to do that.

Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?

In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.

A woman has to live her life, or live to repent not having lived it.

I don't want things that I regret in life, and things that I have not done - and I don't want to at 80 years wake up, and tell myself: 'Oh I was on top of my shape and skills and I didn't do it.'

I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

It's better to repent what you enjoyed than to repent not having enjoyed anything.

If we can only live once, let it be a daring adventure.

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.

I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not.

I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

I'm not really one for regrets, but one thing I do wish is that I'd gone down south sooner.

When I'm old I'm never going to say,I didn't do this or, I regret that. I'm going to say,I don't regret a damn thing. I came, I went, and I did it all.

I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.

I've seen and swam and climbed and lived and driven and filmed. Should it all end tomorrow, I can definitely say there would be no regrets. I am very lucky, and I know it. I really have lived 5,000 times over.

If you don't take the chance to live life, what can you say at the end of it?

I would hate to look back on my life and go, 'You know, I wanted to do a rock n' roll album. I should have, and I never did.'

You can't afford to live your life with regrets.

It is what it is. I balled out, had some good years, man, had fun and did it with some guys and made relationships that will never end.

I just don't want to die without a few scars.

The only regrets I have are things I didn't do.

Ultimately, I have one life, and you always regret the things you don't do.