Regret quotes

“I hate looking backward, but every once in a while it sneaks up on you.”
Burt Lancaster

“One of my biggest regrets is that I didn't do enough experimenting in college.”
Brittany Snow - Chloe

“I'm not going to let anything happen to you.”

Reese Mishler - Reese Houser

“If I had my life to live all over again - and I would not want to - I would take love more seriously than I was taught to take it as a kid. I would not throw myself in every corner with any girl I meet. For the rest, I feel I've done the best I could, considering I was born to be a workingman.”
Maurice Chevalier

“Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.”
Lindsay Duncan - Katherine

“- Jack Sparrow: You've seen it all, done it all. Survived. That's the trick isn't it? To survive?
- Captain Teague: It's not just about living forever, Jackie. The trick is still living with yourself forever.”
Johnny Depp - Jack Sparrow
Keith Richards - Captain Teague

“You can't undo what is done.”
Sean Biggerstaff - Ben Willis

“Grandma says hi. She says she's sorry for taking the bumblebee pendant. She just likes it a lot.”

Haley Joel Osment - Cole Sear

“There's no living with the killing. There's no going back. Right or wrong, it's a brand. A brand that sticks.”
Dafne Keen - Laura

“Mom. Mom, you were always the perfect mother. You gave me everything that I ever wanted. And I love you. I love you so much. And I'm really sorry. Please don't ever forget me.”
Abigail Breslin - Casey Welson

“- Herc Hansen: When you drift with someone, you feel like there's nothing to talk about. I just don't wanna regret all the things that I never said.
- Chuck Hansen: That won't- you don't need to. I know. I always have.”
Max Martini - Herc Hansen
Robert Kazinsky - Chuck Hansen

“Your life doesn't flash before your eyes when you are dying. That's bullshit. It's your regrets that haunt you in your final moments. Everything you've failed to be. Everyone you let down. Everything you'd go back and change, if only you had more time.”
Liam Neeson - Jimmy Conlon

“- Terry Brogan: I keep trying to think which thing I did in my life made me deserve you.
- Jessie Wyler: Go to hell.
- Terry Brogan: Oh, I have, you know that, lady!”
Jeff Bridges - Terry Brogan
Rachel Ward - Jessie Wyler

“I went to state school. I went to football games and blacked out and got date raped. I had abortions. I worried too much about what my boyfriends thought. I got what I deserved. But that's not you.”
Kristin Chenoweth - Debby Kreeger

“- Jimmy: This is what you have to understand, Doug. Some people are just loners. It's that simple, man.
- Doug Harris: Maybe I don't want to be. Maybe I just want someone to grab a beer with, to go on a cool guy trip with.”
Kevin Hart - Jimmy Callahan
Josh Gad - Doug Harris

“- Lenina Huxley: Look at you, you're a shambles!
- John Spartan: Don't worry, I can fix it. All I need is a needle and thread.
[pause]
- John Spartan: I really didn't say that, did I? Damn!”
Sandra Bullock - Lenina Huxley
Sylvester Stallone - John Spartan

“Bottom line is... we're around each other an'... this thing, it grabs hold of us again... at the wrong place... at the wrong time... and we're dead.”
Heath Ledger - Ennis Del Mar

“If ifs and buts where candies and nuts, we'd all have a very merry christmas.”
Charlize Theron - Libby Day

Of all sad words of tongue or pen the saddest are these "It might have been".

Guy Burnet - Maurice

Sometimes I wonder if he ever looked into my baby blue eyes and asked himself "Did I just father the most insignificant asshole of the twenty-first century?".

James McAvoy - Wesley

“I just say what I feel and regret it later.”
Portia Doubleday - Nate

“The only things you regret are the things you didn't do.”
Michael Curtiz

“- Claire: Somewhere... I don't know where... I turned a corner and there was no turning back. Somewhere I made a mistake.
- Kit: Don't mourn it, sweet, it's all right. The marvellous thing about making mistakes is that you can keep making them, the same ones, over and over again.”
Ellen Barkin - Claire
Julian Sands - Kit

“People used to smile at work here. Designers used to stay up all night working together just to get one piece perfect. It felt like family.”
Chris Noth - Lee Kassell

“There'll be a day when you will wish you had done a little evil to do a greater good.”
Eva Green - Sibylla