Youth Regret Quotes

A wasted youth is better by far than a wise and productive old age.

I wasted too much time in my twenties. I worked, but I would do theater in the evening, and during the day I would surf and do irascible things. And then, for some reason, as I got closer to my thirties, I thought, 'Okay Joel, you've wasted enough time.'

It's so easy for 16-year-olds, including myself, to say, 'I just wish I were an adult.' But we can't wish our lives away. When we're adults, we'll say, 'I wish I were 16 again.'

I wouldn't want to be 20 again for anything.

Life has only gotten better personally for me as I've gotten older. I mean, being young was such a gross waste of time. I was just such a miserable, miserable person.

I wouldn't be back in my 20s for anything.

When I was 19, my heart wasn't in it. I hated training.

"Oh to be old again," said a young corpse.

When I was young, I lived like an old woman, and when I got old, I had to live like a young person.

I would say sleep can always be emphasized - I didn't do it enough in my 20s, because you don't think you need it.

My 20s were a lost decade. I didn't do much of anything.

Most women want their youth back again; but I wouldn't have mine back at any price. The worst years of my life are behind me, and my best ones ahead.

What you want to do is not go to work. You're not missing a thing. The worst thing I did was start work young.

Personally, my twenties were a complete waste of time. Professionally, I hope some good came of them.

Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!

My youth is escaping without giving me anything it owes me.

My idea of Hell is to be young again.

I was obsessed with being popular in high school and never achieved it. There's photos from our high school musicals, and I'm comically in the deep background, wearing a beggar's costume.

I've tested for I-don't-know-how-many pilots, and I didn't get any of them. I would always try to go off the top and make it as spontaneous as possible, but acting in sitcoms is such a skill set, and I didn't have it. I wish I did back when I was younger.

I never really supported anyone when I was younger, but I'm an Evertonian now.

My twenties were a write-off.

I think I wasted a lot of my youth, falling for girls who were a couple of years older than me.

My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.

I was so poor for so long that I didn't use anything. I didn't drive cars, I didn't eat very much. So, I figured the world owed me a debt, so I've been eating very well and have had a very big car for a long time. But I still haven't caught up with my youth.

The sex is better and I understand life better. I don't want to be young again.