Regret Quotes

Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most...

This mournful and restless sound was a fit accompaniment to my meditations.

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then th...

I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life ...

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy wha...

What I mean is, right from that first time, there wassomething in Tommy's manner that was tinged wit...

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

You've turned out good.You've made me proud, Markos.I am fifty-five years old. I have waited all my ...

... I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. ...

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You...

Happiness is pleasure without regret

He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by...

It hurt her to stir up these feelings, but yet she knew that that was the best part of her soul, and...

My animal howlsMy angel's upsetBut I'm not allowedA trace of regret

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, al...

I'm too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.

You know, sometimes it's nice to just have someone to blame, even if it has to be yourself, even if ...

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it...

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have wr...

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I ...

For, like desire, regret seeks not to be analysed but to be satisfied. When one begins to love, one ...

you can't change the past,Aunt Lou used to say.Oh, but I wanted to;that was the one thing I really w...

I stepped closer to him and lowered my voice. 'If you could change one thing, what would it be?'He p...

I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter pray...

You never know when you might be seeing someone for the last time.

My point in mentioning this is only to say that people who feel any sort of regret where you are con...

How I wish you could have known me in my strength.

She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the ag...

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to ...

No one is adequate to comprehending the misery of my lot! Fate obliges me to be constantly in moveme...

Death has come and atoned for all. I have no grievance against the soul of the man before me. Instin...

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.

Weirdly—but as Danny and Amos had suspected—the further the winning number was from the number on a ...

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that's always been there, and the next ...

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its p...

I'm rambling again. Wandering off the point. But this is the true story of my wasted life...

...and then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's de...

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...

And what if Miriam and I were never to be reconciled?

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lea...

It seems to me that our lives are consumed by countless wasting years, but only a few shining moment...

There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by utt...

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors c...

We were never lovers, and we never will be, now. I do not regret that, however. I regret the convers...

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was...

Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me...

The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’...

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is foll...

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make u...

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to ...

I'll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I'...

I didn't want to hurt him!" Ender cried. "Why didn't he just leave me alone!

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and kill...

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do...

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future...

Never be afraid when God brings back your past. Let your memory have its way with you. It is a minis...

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humo...

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them t...

It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

Nothin's what it seems, drow!" Bruenor declared. "Nothin'! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? B...

Hindsight, I think, is a useless tool. We, each of us, are at a place in our lives because of innume...

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.

You, yesterday’s boy,to whom confusion came:Listen, lest you forget who you are.It was not pleasure ...

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the want of self-reliance: it is infirm...

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed hi...

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live ...

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave b...

he should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to ...

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do th...

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. ...

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little w...

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only...

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windLi...

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of reg...

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not ...

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she ne...

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

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

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will ...

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to def...

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behi...

No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a prog...

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make ...

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now...

The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough h...