Regretful Quotes

I don't care about failing because I do not want to sit down in my older years and say, 'How come I didn't try?'

The thing that I regret is not having better relationships with a lot of people. Being the hard-nosed guy that I was, I think I could've come off a little bit better in my relationships with a lot of people, and I didn't.

Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories

I thought I was the center of the world and that my parents had nothing to do with me, and I regret that. I wish I had been a little kinder to my family and been friends with them and let them into my life and shared with them the things I was doing rather than feel like I needed to do my life in secret.

A hasty judgment is a first step to recantation.

He went like one that hath been stunn'd, And is of sense forlorn: A sadder and a wiser man He rose the morrow morn.

I play piano very badly. That's my great regret.

I was trying to convince myself I could learn to be gay - but no. That's one of my great regrets.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

Nothing could be worse than the fear that one had given up too soon, and left one unexpended effort that might have saved the world.

Time is given us that we may take care for eternity; and eternity will not be too long to regret the loss of our time if we have misspent it.

You don't want to miss out on something and feel like an idiot.

I can't re-examine work I did in the past with pride.

I saw my whole life flash before my eyes, boss. It was horrific. I haven’t done anything to regret yet and it’s been way too brief. I at least want a license before I check out, you know?

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

Don't you want to take a leap of faith? Or become an old man, filled with regret, waiting to die alone!

There's tons of stuff where you're like, "God, I wish I could take that back."

I had this habit of an academic of answering the question. I should have fobbed it off.

I believe in education and wish I had a better one.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

I'd let my golden chances pass me by.

I have to teach myself. I kind of wish I'd continued with my education, but that's something I can do in the future.

Before I could figure out how to apologize for being such an idiot, she tackled me with a hug, then pulled away just as quickly. "I'm glad you're not a guinea pig." "Me, too." I hoped my face wasn't as red as it felt.

My life is just a series of mistakes and regrets of varying degrees.

I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.