Damon Galgut Quotes

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

Usually you regret the things you say no to.

If she doesn't speak, she is making a choice. If she doesn't try, she can lose her chance forever. -An-mei

Those who act will fail. Those who seize will lose.

A person could spend most of a lifetime in retrospective terror, thinking of all the things one nearly didn't do.

If we measured life in the things that almost happened, we wouldn't get anywhere.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

I'd rather end up wishing I hadn’t than end up wishing I had.

The world which credits what is done is cold to all that might have been.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

Sometimes you do something, and you get screwed. Sometimes it's the things you don't do, and you get screwed.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Not to decide is to decide.

There's no such thing as coulda, shoulda, or woulda. If you shoulda and coulda, you woulda done it.

When one jumps over the edge, one is bound to land somewhere.

History is nothing if not an epic tale of missed opportunities.

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

There are hazards in anything one does but there are greater hazards in doing nothing.