Taylor Swift Quotes

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

It's hard to watch something you've done many years ago.

It brings me no joy and not enough comfort to dwell too much on things I've said or written or made or worn in the past.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

I'm so different from the egotistical, self-centred person I was when I did those things. And to watch someone acting out your memories on the screen is like reliving it. Like someone taking you back and showing you what you did.

We all have appointments with the past.

Thinking of someone else is what got me damned. It’s a mistake I don’t want to repeat. (Xypher) You know sometimes it’s by repeating our mistakes that we realize what went wrong the first time. Knowing that, we’re able to fix the mistake and move past it. (Acheron)

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

I found myself in the changed man theory the other night thinking, "Yeah." I thought, "My god. If we could do this again," but there was nothing specific there. There's just the kind of vague sensation of how I'd like it to go. I allowed myself that gift to think that.

At least once a year, I imagine that I am about to die. Looking back as truthfully as I can at my entire life, I give full attention to the things I wish hadn’t occurred. Recognizing these mistakes honestly but without self-recrimination, I try to rejoice in the innate wisdom that allows me to see so bravely, and I feel compassion for how I so frequently messed up. Then I can go forward. The future is wide open, and what I do with it is up to me.

There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.

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

I think it's natural as you get to the end of your twenties to start thinking about what you could have done differently - whether they went well or whether they went terribly.

I think we all suffer from guilt at some point in our lives, but for the most part, I never really regret, and I try to always remain positive.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

I've had my share of doing things that I really wish I hadn't done.

Where I Was Wrong

I don't feel like a very nostalgic person. I think about the past much more clinically. When I look back and wonder, 'Why was I doing that? Was it a waste of time?' I don't beat myself up. Instead, I say, 'I'm so glad I did that, because now I really know what matters to me.'

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

Turning 50 is making me reflect on my life in a way that's more compassionate and forgiving.

I have many regrets and things I wish I could go back and change, but I have also worked hard and tried to improve myself.

I regret so much. I've made mistakes. I've hurt people. I've done things I'm not proud of. But on the other hand, that way lies madness, you know?

In bed at night, I could be reading some book, and I'll come across a sentence that's totally unrelated to some scene I did years ago. But I'll play the scene back in my mind and think, I did that wrong - I should've opened the door more slowly.