Regret Quotes

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...

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

The room had lost its morning light, the glow of expectation and potential. The daylight was now gra...

I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with reg...

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels som...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.

His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted...

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wast...

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

Mattie was a grown woman in love, and they had to let her go, with their blessing, enduring what cou...

In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra...

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not...

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment...

Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick u...

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left...