Quotes about Regret
Sometimes I bust out and do things so permanent. Like tattoos and marriage.
— Drew Barrymore
Those who cannot live fully often become destroyers of life.
— Anais Nin
and he began to understand what a wild game we play in life; he began to understand that a thing once done cannot be undone nor changed by saying "I am sorry!
— Robert Louis Stevenson
I have pleasures, and passions, but the joy of life is gone. I am going under: the morgue yawns for me. I go and look at my zinc-bed there. After all, I had a wonderful life, which is, I fear, over.
— Oscar Wilde
MY greatest regret in life is that I never became the heavyweight boxing champion ofthe world.
— Nelson Mandela
Everyone must choose one of two pains: The pain of discipline or the pain of regret.
— Jim Rohn
A person will be called to account on Judgement Day for every permissible thing he might have enjoyed but did not.
— Anonymous
Can't repeat the past? he cried incredulously. Why of course you can! He looked around him wildly, as if the past were lurking here in the shadow of his house, just out of reach of his hand.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
It was too late - everything was too late. For years now he had dreamed the world away, basing his decisions upon emotions unstable as water.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
He had angered Providence by resisting too many temptations. There was nothing left but heaven, where he would meet only those who, like him, had wasted earth.
— F Scott Fitzgerald
I always watch for the longest day in the year and then I miss it.
— F Scott Fitzgerald