Quotes about Regret

If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.

Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is

The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.

The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.

Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?

You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised

I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you'd make the right choice even then. I believe in God's design.

He had a tattoo of a bird on his neck done by someone with an ill-formed notion of their appearance.

I'm fixin to go do somethin dumbern hell but I'm goin anyways. If I dont come back tell Mother I love her. Your mother's dead Llewelyn. Well I'll tell her myself then.

I just meant I'd seen things I'd as soon not of. I know it. There's hard lessons in this world. What's the hardest? I don't know . Maybe it's just that when things are gone they're gone. They aint comin back.

Lastly he looked at the face so caved and drawn among the folds of funeral cloth, the yellowed moustache, the eyelids paper thin. That was not sleeping. That was not sleeping.

Grief is the stuff of life. A life without grief is no life at all. But regret is a prison.