Regret quotes

“Regret. It piles up around us like books we never read.”
Sir Kenneth Branagh - Viktor Cherevin

“I came up with a new game-show idea recently. It's called The Old Game. You got three old guys with loaded guns onstage. They look back at their lives, see who they were, what they accomplished, how close they came to realizing their dreams. The winner is the one who doesn't blow his brains out. He gets a refrigerator.”
Sam Rockwell - Chuck Barris

“People die everyday, mopping floors, washing dishes and you know what their last thought is? I never got my shot. She got her shot. If she dies today you know what her last thought would be? I think I did all right.”

Morgan Freeman - Eddie Scrap-Iron Dupris

“If I could go back in time and change everything back, I would!”
Rachael Leigh Cook - Josie McCoy

“A gift is only a good thing when the giver has given thought to that gift. But when the gift the giver gives gives grief, then that gift should give the giver regrets.”
Gary Cole - Mike Brady

“I'd kill a man to be twenty-five again.”
Jeff Bridges - Kyle

“Why in childhood and youth do we wish time to pass so quickly, we want to grow up so fast, yet as adults we wish just the opposite?”
Harry Connick Jr. - Narrator

“I'd rather regret the things I've done than the things I haven't done.”
Tom Selleck - Jesse Stone

“- Clark Kent: I have to go back.
- Lois Lane: You can't go back, there's no way now.
- Clark Kent: I have to. I've gotta try dammit, I've got to try something. Anything!
- Lois Lane: It's not your fault. You didn't know this was going to happen.
- Clark Kent: They knew. They tried to tell me. But, I didn't listen.”
Christopher Reeve - Clark Kent
Margot Kidder - Lois Lane

- Jeff Dunham: Walter, what exactly is marriage to you?
- Walter: It's like drinking a slurpy.
- Jeff Dunham: A slurpy.
- Walter: First couple of sips, it's like "boy this is really good! I'm glad I did this!". Then you keep drinking, it goes right to your head, and you go "ow, ow, ooooow! What the hell was I thinking? Someone kill me please!".
Jeff Dunham - Himself
Jeff Dunham - Walter

“I will not live the rest of my life in regret.”
Diane Lane - Penny Chenery

“- Elrond: I looked into your future and I saw death.
- Arwen: But there is also life. You saw there was a child, you saw my son!
- Elrond: That future is almost gone.
- Arwen: But it is not lost.
- Elrond: Nothing is certain.
- Arwen: Some things are certain. If I leave him now, I will regret it forever.”
Hugo Weaving - Elrond
Liv Tyler - Arwen

“- Gramps: Should have poked her in the whiskers while you had the chance. I met this hot young bitch at the world's fair back in 1940. Every moment with her was like a slice of heaven.
- Peter: Ahh, I bet you really miss grandma.
- Gramps: Aww fuck grandma! It's Pearl I'm talking about... fucking grandma.”
Richard Denni - Gramps
Thomas Jane - Peter Donahue

“- Belloq: How odd that it should end this way for us after so many stimulating encounters. I almost regret it. Where shall I find a new adversary so close to my own level?
- Indiana Jones: Try the local sewer.”

Paul Freeman - Belloq
Harrison Ford - Indiana Jones

“Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.”
Ian Bannen - Jackie O'Shea

“I think a lot about things I haven't done. Dive in the Great Barrier Reef; ride the Orient Express; live on the Amalfi Coast with nothing but a motorcycle and a backpack; kiss a stranger on the balcony of the Hotel Du Cap.”
Tom Cruise - Roy Miller

“I shoulda been a farmer.”
Wilford Brimley - Pop Fisher

“- Ariadne: These aren't just dreams. These are memories. And you said never to use memories.
- Cobb: I know I did.
- Ariadne: You're trying to keep her alive. You can't let her go.
- Cobb: You don't understand. These are moments I regret, the memories that I have to change.”
Ellen Page - Ariadne
Leonardo DiCaprio - Cobb

“That's the one good thing about regret: it's never too late. You can always change tomorrow if you want to.”
Karen Allen - Claire Phillips

“- Nancy: I know what regret feels like, and I don't want that for you.
- Maureen: That's what ballet would be. A life of wishing that I found something I loved, instead of something I just happened to do well. I'm not you, Mom. You didn't have the feet. I don't have the heart.”
Debra Monk - Nancy
Susan May Pratt - Maureen

“No life is without its regrets yet none is without its consolations.”
Nigel Hawthorne - George III

“Now that I am an old, old man, I must confess that of all the faces that appear to me out of the past, the one I see most clearly is that of the girl of whom I've never ceased to dream these many long years. She was the only earthly love in my life, yet I never knew, nor ever learned, her name.”
Christian Slater - Adso von Melk

“In this place where time stands still it seems like everything is moving. Including me. I can't say I know where I'm going nor if my bad deeds can be purified. There are so many things I have done that I regret. But when I come to a full stop I hope you understand that the distance between us is not as great as it seems.”
Brad Pitt - Heinrich Harrer

“- Camille: Jesse, it's cute you tryin' to be in choreography and all, but you just stick to finding us the beats, all right, boo?
- Jesse: All right. Cool, but one day you'll come begging for what i got.”
Solange Knowles - Camille

“Sometimes you have to do something unforgivable... just to be able to go on living.”
Michael Fassbender - Carl Jung