Regrets Quotes - Page 2

Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.

I'm a terrible person. I should have stayed in college. I should have gone skydiving while I had the chance. I should have gone swimming with dolphins. I should have seen The Spice Girls perform on their reunion tour!

Jillianne Hamilton

I choose to believe that my father is still alive, that he has survived death, outlived us all, and possesses the soul that goes on and lives forever; We just cannot see him yet, for we have not caught up with him. our time will come just as his did. and no matter how woeful and lost I was when he passed away, I know I will be glad to go to a place where I can see him, and know he is okay and happy. It’s just not my time yet and there is no way of knowing if any of it is true." - Jane Adams

Noorilhuda

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

David Stanley

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

Mira Grant

Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

Andrew Ashling

As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every direction seeking direction / My moms cryin cause her insides are dyin / Her son tryin her patience, keep her heart racin / A million beats a minute, I know I push you to your limit / But it's this game, love—I'm caught up all in it / They make it so you can't prevent it, never give it / You gotta take it, can't fake it, I keep it authentic / My hand got this pistol shakin, cause I sense danger / Like Camp Crystal Lake, and / Don't wanna shoot him, but I got him, trapped / Within this infrared dot, bout to hot him and hit rock bottom / No answers to these trick questions, no time shit stressin / My life found I got ta live for the right now / Time waits for no man, can't turn back the hands / Once it's too late, gotta learn to live with regrets

Jay-Z

You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

Kim Edwards

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in here."Look!" She pointed at the multicolored car whizzing by. Its black door were from a Mercedes coupe, the white hood from a BMW; the silver trunk was Jaguar, the red convertible top was Lexus, the whitewall tires were Bentley, the sound system was Bose, and the music was classical. A hood ornament from each model dangled from the rear view mirror. Its license plate appropriately read MUTT."That car looks like a moving Benton ad.""Or a pileup on Rodeo drive." Candace snapped a picture with her iPhone and e-mailed to her friends back home. They responded instantly with a shot of what they were doing. It must have involved the mall because Candace picked up her pace and began asking anyone under the age of fifty where the cool people hung out.

Lisi Harrison

Look to the past only to find ways to improve your present and future, never to find regrets. Don’t let what has happened in the past limit your life now. Let your past expand your life.

Avina Celeste

Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.

Benjamin Wood

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

Anaïs Nin

I have no regrets because I know I did my best – all I could do.

Midori Ito

To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.

Gary Rudz

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

Tarryn Fisher

You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

Darnell Lamont Walker

don't want to regret than don't forget to enjoy

Pallav Gautam

«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. " (p.330)

Ichigo Takano

Learn to say " No" without any regrets

Charmaine J.Forde

Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

It’s not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.

Sarvesh Jain

If there's one thing I've learned in life, if there's one rule I live by, it's never to regret what's happened. Understand by all means, but never regret - it's such a devouring pastime and one that leads nowhere.

Alan Goodwin

Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.

Sarah Ockler

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.

Leonard Cohen

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one’s regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Lemony Snicket

You can run. You can keep running to the ends of the earth. But I won’t be far behind you.”“Ethan—”“No. I will never be far behind you.” He tipped up my chin so that I could do nothing else but look back into his eyes. “Do the things you need to do. Learn to be a vampire, to be a warrior, to be the soldier you are capable of being. But consider the possibility that I made a mistake I regret—and that I’ll continue to regret that mistake and try to convince you to give me another chance until the earth stops turning.

Chloe Neill

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

C.G. Jung

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

Irvine Welsh

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

Steven Erikson

Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them...I don't want those regrets

Lisa De Jong

RegretsTiming is irrelevant when two people are meant for each other. It's what I once believed.But we met during a time when I was such a mess, when I still had so much to figure out. How could I have known how crucial every word, every action was or how losing you would be something I would always regret?If only you could have met me now, how different it would be. How much I have changed. How I have grown. I learned so much from all the mistakes I made with you. I just wish I had made them with someone else.

Lang Leav

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

Elizabeth Gaskell

The brave don't live forever but the cautious don't live at all. The only thing that's truly terrifying is the unlived life.

Bill See

Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end.

Samuel Beckett

I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.

Kathryn Stockett

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

Jude Morgan

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousand failures shall not daunt! Let dust clasp dust death death I am alive!

Don Marquis

Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.

Lucy Larcom

Hindsight is always zo/20.

Billy Wilder

No doing without some ruing.

Sigrid Undset

Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead that is where your future lies.

Ann Landers

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

L. E. Landon

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.

Ji Kang

Should-haves solve nothing. It's the next thing to happen that needs thinking about.

Alexandra Ripley

The error of the past is the success of the future. A mistake is evidence that someone tried to do something.

Anonymous

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.

Katherine Mansfield

I have always found that each step we take in life is to be regretted-if we once begin to wonder how many other steps might have been possible.

John Oliver Hobbes

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

George Bernard Shaw

Let the dead Past bury its dead!

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The horror of that moment the King went on "I shall never forget." "You will though " the Queen said "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

Lewis Carroll

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of which all men have some.

Charles Dickens

They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment take it off and let it drop.

Eva Jessye

Your past is always going to be the way it was. Stop trying to change it.

Anonymous

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

Dante Alighieri

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

Rebecca Beard

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort for change is the essence of life.

Anatole France

Yesterday's errors let yesterday cover.

Susan Coolidge

Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it or as if under compulsion we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking though on the contrary it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive a form that really leads only to self-torture.

Emma Jung

The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.

Germaine Greer

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