Regret Quotes - Page 4

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

I never want to regret. 'Regret' is the ugliest word.

Regret is more than inevitable, it's a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.

Jim Mitchem

You've turned out good.You've made me proud, Markos.I am fifty-five years old. I have waited all my life to hear those words. Is it too late now for this? For us? Have we squandered too much for too long? Part of me thinks it is better to go on as we have, to act as though we don't know how ill suited we have been for each other. Less painful that way. Perhaps better than this belated offering. This fragile, trembling little glimpse of how it could have been between us. All it will beget is regret, I tell myself, and what good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.

Khaled Hosseini

If you are single and don't want to be. The only regret is staying that way.

Suzette R. Hinton

I don't fear death, I fear I haven't done enough before it happens

Aryan Xebat‎

And the General regrets the night.

T. Mountebank

There’s no great dividing line between being a kid and an adult. We’re not all caterpillars turning into butterflies. You are what you are. When you grow up, you may be more careful than when you were a kid. You don’t say what you think as much as you once did. You learn to play nice. But you’re still the same person who did good things or rotten things when you were young. Whether you feel good about them or bad … whether you regret them. Well, that’s a different thing. But it’s not like they disappear forever.

Matthew Dicks

he should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to change what was unchangeable, to plan what was now useless, to be the architect of the irrevocable past.

Robert Louis Stevenson

The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.

Yōko Ogawa

I had too much fun was no one's last regret ever.

Jonathan Heatt

The more conscious I was of all the good and of all this "beautiful and lofty," the deeper I kept sinking into my mire, and the more capable I was of getting completely stuck in it. But the main feature was that this was all in me not as if by chance, but as if it had to be so. As if it were my most normal condition and in no way a sickness or a blight, so that finally I lost any wish to struggle against this blight. I ended up almost believing (and maybe indeed believing) that this perhaps was my normal condition. But at first, in the beginning, how much torment I endured in this struggle! I did not believe that such things happened to others, and therefore kept it to myself all my life as a secret. I was ashamed (maybe I am ashamed even now); it reached the point with me where I would feel some secret, abnormal, mean little pleasure in returning to my corner on some nasty Petersburg night and being highly conscious of having once again done a nasty thing that day, and again that what had been done could in no way be undone, and I would gnaw, gnaw at myself with my teeth, inwardly, secretly, tear and suck at myself until the bitterness finally turned into some shameful, accursed sweetness, and finally-into a decided, serious pleasure! Yes, a pleasure, a pleasure! I stand upon it. The reason I've begun to speak is that I keep wanting to find out for certain: do other people have such pleasures? I'll explain it to you: the pleasure here lay precisely in the too vivid consciousness of one's own humiliation; in feeling that one had reached the ultimate wall; that, bad as it is, it cannot be otherwise; that there is no way out for you, that you will never change into a different person; that even if you had enough time and enough faith left to change yourself into something different, you probably would not wish to change; and even if you did wish it, you would still not do anything, because in fact there is perhaps nothing to change into.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

Those who refuse to grow, those who only finish school and call it quits regret through life.

Sunday Adelaja

If you commit then struggle to fulfill it at any cost otherwise regret it.

Samreen Quyyum

All he did all afternoon was calculate again and again how many hours of study time he was losing. Thinking about it now, he felt stupid, as we all do when we remember all the time we waste wishing we were somewhere else.

Paolo Giordano

Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.

Andrena Sawyer

Any anger I feel vanishes. What is left cannot be described. It is guilt piled onto emptiness and set afire.

Bryan Reardon

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes with living a “what if” life.

Steve Maraboli

You're so young, you can't know the meaning of true regret. It's never what you've done, love, it's what you've left undone.

Tessa Dare

If I don't take a chance with Gavin Murphy, I think I'll always regret it.

Lex Martin

Love passed me by and I failed to get the plates.

Amanda Mosher

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

Nicola Yoon

Look up, always. Look back, never.

Karen Quan

Things don't so much end as disappear. They don't so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.

Rachel Joyce

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

Jeff VanderMeer

We regret because we fail to listen to an inner voice that says "I Can" and we watch as that pledge is hushed by our doubts and fears. We regret because we listened to someone else's voice rather than our own or because we knew what was right and didn't do it. Imagine a life where we trusted ourselves more, believed what others said less and committed to do what was noble. There would be no regret in that.

Jason Versey

I stilled. I was sure I'd imagined that all too familiar voice, but there he was. His bright blue eyes saying far more than his words ever could. His iris' held pain and anger and my shame increased tenfold. How foolish I was to think what I'd done would matter to him, or how his reaction would mean so much to me.

Freedom Matthews

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Robin Hobb

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

Taylor Swift

The road home is tinged with regret and the road forward is full of the unknown.

Joaquin Lowe

Because even if you buried yourself in guilt, you can't go back and change what happened.

Katherine Fleet

Regret is like a mental parasite that alters your behavior.

Peter Tieryas

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

William Congreve

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

Wallace Stevens

When you have given your best, you are left with no regrets.

Abdul Mueed

Death changes everyone....It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life. Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often than not, it makes you regret what you've lost.

Tara Sivec

I never wanted to regret the kisses I missed.

Lynsey Addario

I never want to regret the kisses I missed.

Lynsey Addario

I refuse to live a life of regret. I refuse to hope things will get better in the future when I have complete control over making them the best possible right here and now. We have one life-and none of us knows how long our life will be or what will becomme of it. The possibilities are truly infinite.

Connor Franta

You realize how much you love someone once that someone is gone…gone forever, and you are filled with regret and sadness.

Ama H. Vanniarachchy

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

Jhumpa Lahiri

What you don't sweat out when you're young will turn into tears when you're old.

Japanese Proverb

And maybe that's all a ghost is, in the end. Regret, grown legs, gone walking.

Nicole Kornher-Stace

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only he had been able to think of her, he would not have needed to dream of her.

Samuel Beckett

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed himself the vague wish that things had turned out differently, without blaming himself that they hadn't, any more than he'd blamed himself when his 1-2-3 triple never ran like it should at least once. It didn't pay to second-guess every one of life's decisions, to pretend to wisdom about the past from the safety of the present, the way so many people did when they got older.

Richard Russo

The point is that everyone needs some exposure to the various ways of life. People buy things out of catalogues too much. They see in Time magazine that they're suppose to be feeling in such and such a way, and they dash off a check and buy that life-style sight unseen. A pig in a poke if there ever was one, for once you've bought the thing there's no refund. We ought to be able to try things before we sign up for them. Used to be you could listen to the records in a record store before you bought them. Now they're sealed, for your protection, they say. Bullshit! It's for their goddamned protection, not ours. We don't need to be protected. We need to be allowed to get a taste of something before we accept it.

Arthur Alexander

The cern paled, and all the courageous which accompanied him into the conversation was now all done away. He shrunk back, his audacity dwizzening under the teneberous gloom of the giant’s long shadow. He turned to entreat the help of his fellow soldiers with desperate looks, but there was little more than half of the regiments left behind him, all of them unwilling to intervene, and his bowels rumbled, his heart sinking into the grave of conscience, and never had he felt more mistaken in his conduct.

Michelle Franklin

How we begin and how we end any relationship is a product of planning, fortuity, and personality. Many enterprises commenced in good faith spiral into confusion, discord, and disarray, generate turmoil and corruption, sunburn the sensitive parties, and conclude in a cesspool of regret and animosity.

Kilroy J. Oldster

Regret is not the same as guilt. It is expressed by: ‘I can’t believe I did that. It’s not like me. This is not how I am! How could I do such a thing?’ It means to see ourselves as the best we can be, and to be disappointed in not living up to that.

Yael Shahar

Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should not have been done. ( “Island of regret. Island of remorse” )

Erik Pevernagie

12 Things To Ditch For A Great DayBlameGuiltWorryRegretResentmentEntitlementSelf-pityLazinessNegative attitudeFear of embarrassmentUrge to one-up othersYour comfort zone

Charles F. Glassman

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

Cassandra Clare

It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven’t made are the real source of regrets in your life!

Mehmet Murat ildan

Explanations are ghosts of guilt, shadows of sympathy, and I have no use for them.

Jessica Dawson

The room had lost its morning light, the glow of expectation and potential. The daylight was now gray, and the new day was already used, a little soiled by mistaken thoughts and makeshift undertakings.

Tove Jansson

She cried aloud, with a great mourning cry for all that she had never known in this life, and the agony of a bereavement unguessed till this moment.

Marion Zimmer Bradley

Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!

Adhish Mazumder

She was stung by sharp regret thinking about the sheets and tablecloths, so costly and never used due to excessive regard.

Paolo Giordano

I was Pandora, bound and determined to open that box.

Margaret Peterson Haddix

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