Quotes about regret

Guilt at least has a purpose it tells us we’ve violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational they manufacture wisdom. But regret—regret is useless.

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it's only good for wallowing in.

Regret The saddest word in the English language.

Don't regret just celebrate your knowledge and wisdom. Life isn't about an easygoing sheltered heaven it's about living.

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

Love yourself you won’t regret it ever.

The pleasure is there between your expectations and regrets.

They had both wanted it to happen and they both wished it had not what mattered now was that nobody else should ever know.

How quickly he fell how soon it was over.

You are the last hope of humanity don’t make the world regret.

Don't let your fear help you birth a well-nourished regret take action today!

A part of me knew... from the moment I saw herher death would have been one wound too many that day.

One can repent of a sin and have done with it but the wages of foolishness is the eternal recalling of it.

Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly repent and move on.

Don’t give up on trying everyday those who gave up yesterday are living today regretting that they never tried again and again.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

I'm living with every step. I can't live with regret. The past is the past. I'm not worried about it. I can't change it. I can't fix it. It is what it is. I'm just living.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.

I don't regret what I've been through. I've had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I've been so blessed that I could never say, 'I wish this didn't happen.' It's part of who I am. There's nothing in my life that's so ugh.

Later in my life, I'm going to look back and smile and be very fulfilled. I know that if I don't give it my all right now I'll regret it later. That's very important to me, because I've worked all my life to have this.

Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.

September 11 was a wake-up call to me. I don't want to contribute to the hate in any shape or form. I now regret in the past being silent about what I have heard in the Islamic discourse and being part of that with my own anger.

I would say that I definitely became much more religious. They say there are no atheists in foxholes, and this stroke put me into a very deep foxhole. Yet that feeling of faith sustained me, so I have no feelings of anger or regret.

I see it all perfectly there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it — you will regret both.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed you should try not to hear them.

The desire to get married, which - I regret to say, I believe is basic and primal in women - is followed almost immediately by an equally basic and primal urge - which is to be single again.

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

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

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.

Regrets begin the moment we're comfortable with settling.

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

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

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.

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

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

My guilt is an ocean for me to drown in.

Look up, always. Look back, never.

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.

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.

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.

Having regrets is proof of being alive.

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

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

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.

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.

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 regr

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?

Obedience is less painful than regret.

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.

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?”“

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

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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?

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.

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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

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