Regret Quotes

Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful?

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil th...

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...

When you have no future, you live in the past.

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.....

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in...

They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And som...

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the d...

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page th...

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those ...

Too late... everything's always too late.

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I...

And I never started to plow in my lifeThat some one did not stop in the roadAnd take me away to a da...

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattain...

They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the str...

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

I don't regret anything I ever do or say. I don't like to live my life being censored. I like to say...

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search ...

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she ...

The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd - The longing f...

Ah, it's my longing for whom I might have been that distracts and torments me!

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

Iturbide exclaimed: "Don't frighten me, General!""Don't be frightened," said the General in a calm v...

She could now be sad without losing a jot of hope. Nay, rather, the least approach of sadness would ...

Alas, how easily things go wrong!A sigh too much, a kiss too longAnd there follows a mist and a weep...

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generall...

One can't reason away regret-it's a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

He died at the wrong time, when there was much to be clarified and established. They hadn’t even sta...

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 ...