Regret Quotes

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a w...

It's unfair."As a rule, life is unfair," I said.Yeah, but I think I did say some awful things."To Di...

I believe that I have not been fair to you and that, as a result, I must have led you around in circ...

Rules for Living by Olivia Joules14) Sometimes you just have to go with the flow.and then the new on...

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to h...

I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that...

A wise man will know what game to play to-day, and play it. We must not be governed by rigid rules, ...

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, an...

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.

Each dark conjecture came and for a moment settled like a vulture on Bond's shoulder and croaked int...

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any fra...

O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, ev...

O youth! youth! you have no concerns, you possess, as it were, all the treasures of the universe, ev...

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my mi...

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted...

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might...

...alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days....

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to th...

To avoid a comparative poverty, which her affection and her society would have deprived of all its h...

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one...

I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've...

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyon...

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows....

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what ...

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regr...

Why?” I asked him tiredly. “What would it have changed? What could you possibly have said that would...

Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I h...

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything im...

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything im...

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I'd give anything to go back and love you better...

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the...

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Th...

They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. ...

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret ...

Don't let yesterday take up too much of today.

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can't alter his power over you. You can't alter ...

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think a...

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I...

In my dream, people apologized for things that were about to happen, and lit candles by inhaling.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

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’...