Regret Quotes - Page 3

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll REGRET it!

Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.

Puerto Rican Princess

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight

That night, when you kissed me, I thought you did it because you were drinking. All I could focus on was getting you home before you did something you’d regret in the morning. I didn't want to be your regret, Serenity. My heart couldn’t handle it. Shit, it's been two years and my heart still can't handle the fact that we don’t talk anymore.

Melyssa Winchester

There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.

I've lived the life of a man without teeth, he thought about it. A life of a man without teeth. I've never bitten, I've been waiting, keeping myself for later - and now I've just ascertained that I don't have teeth anymore.

Jean-Paul Sartre

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Wait, I almost shouted, but didn’t, and that would be my burden to bear. Instead, I stood on the curb and I watched him disappear, lights fading in the distance like waking up from a dream.

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can't be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

there is no pain in leaving as in being left behind

db.

What I mean is, right from that first time, there wassomething in Tommy's manner that was tinged with sadness, that seemed tosay: “Yes, we're doing this now and I'm glad we're doing it now. But what apity we left it so late.

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

They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.

Colson Whitehead

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.

Kahneman’s evidence shows that we suck at remembering and predicting our own well-being. We as a culture still ignore this empirical evidence, recommending to live our lives so as to avoid deathbed regrets. Deathbed regrets are like Hollywood films: they stir passions for a couple hours, but are poorly connected to reality. They are not good criteria for a well-lived life.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That bungled goodbye hurts me to this day.

It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.

I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.

Unanswered? I would've answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

Jay Asher

I’ve been so careful my whole life that I don’t even want to imagine what I’ve missed.” Sara realized she was speaking so quickly she hadn’t taken a breath, and suddenly felt lightheaded. “I can’t miss you.

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I'd rather live with the first than the second.

The cost of not following your heart is spending the rest of your life wishing you had.

Anonymous

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there's nothing much to regret.

Child

I didn't actually know what regret tasted like—but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.

Angela N. Blount

She could, she thinks, have entered a different life. She could have had a life as potent and dangerous as literature itself.

Michael Cunningham

It takes courage to own up your actions that hurt others, to look Into the eye and to mean the sorry, To accept the mistake and not deny, all of this needs courage.

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

But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away into nothing when you come out of that game. This will leave a stain. You’ll carry for it for ever, when you could have had a few more years of blissful innocence. Are you sure, now?

Alastair Reynolds

Obedience is less painful than regret.

Christine Caine

There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.

He found he was a man who repented almost everything, regrets crowding in around him like moths to a light. This was actually the main difference between twenty-one and fifty-one, he decided, the sheer volume of regret.

Emily St. John Mandel

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

Mal was quiet for a long moment. Then he said, “I’m not sure who my first kill was. We were hunting the stag when we ran into a Fjerdan patrol on the northern border. I don’t think the fight lasted more than a few minutes, but I killed three men. They were doing a job, same as I was, trying to get through one day to the next, then they were bleeding in the snow. No way to tell who was the first to fall, and I’m not sure it matters. You keep them at a distance. The faces start to blur.”“Really?”“No.

Nought’s had, all’s spent, where our desire is got without content.

William Shakespeare

Any fighter knows that regret that doesn't inform your future is wasted emotion. If you lose and dwell on the missed opportunity rather than the chances to come, you're finished.

Craig Lancaster

You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that’s what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and sadly, you know that what you did wasn't worth what you lost.

Donna Lynn Hope

I am not going to live with regret for not having tried.

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around.

Matthew Donnelly

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

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the joists & posts of my life & I will topple, literally as well as figuratively.

Richard Paul Evans

And he had a theory about fear. It was all about regret. If you make what you want out of life and don't bullshit yourself about your choices, then there are no regrets, and a man without regret isn't afraid of anything.

Mark Allen Smith

The problem with living without the person you can't live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

Charlaine Harris

Worry and regret are both useless weights that provide no drag. They never did anything to slow down the planet for one goddamned second.

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

It all feels so different than it did yesterday. Is it because I'm aware of your feelings now? Or is it something else? Is it that...I know...what love is?

Rei Tōma

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

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

Let me tell you a few things about regret, my darling. There is no end to it. You cannot find the beginning of the chain that brought us from there to here. Should you regret the whole chain, and the air in between, or each link separately?

When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes from living a "what if" life.

If he set out right now to make a list of the things he had taken for granted in his life, he’d go broke buying paper.

James P. Blaylock

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

I do have a reason for my insanity. I fear regret.

each of us humans has a moment-if not many-in which we lapse. for some, the transgression involves sex. for others, simply doubt or a rage so all encompassing, it impels us to make irreversible decisions.but whatever the transgression is doesn't really matter. what matters is that lapsing is our fate. we humans are doomed to it. worse, it is our destiny to look back longingly, with nostalgia, at our world before we changed, at who we were Before.we can never forget.but we can never go back.

Miranda Beverly-Whittemore

Having regrets is proof of being alive.

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

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

Sarah McLachlan

The day I started fearing regret is the day I decided to never stop.

Matthew Donnelly

The night of my accident, when I opened my eyes and you were there? Seeing you again, Rebecca...It was like someone let the air back into the room.

I miss you so much. I miss us. There’s not a day goes by that I don’t regret walking away from you.

Us? There is no us. You threw us away like yesterday’s trash.

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