Quotes about regrets
Ned Vizzini - It's Kind of a Funny Story
I'm done with those regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
Chinese fortune cookie -
I am sorry I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.
Israelmore Ayivor - Dream Big!: See Your Bigger Picture!
Regrets won't change anything. Don't Reject yourself. Just Refrain from what you did badly repent and move on.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
children spend their time for they think they have more time adults cry over their time for they see they have less time
Ralph Waldo Emerson -
Finish each day and be done with it. You have done what you could. Some blunders and absurdities no doubt crept in forget them as soon as you can. Tomorrow is a new day. You shall begin it serenely and with too high a spirit to be encumbered with your old nonsense.
Omar Khayyám -
This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and griefits a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
History teaches us every day our understanding is the matter!
David Foster Wallace - A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments
I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at
Napz Cherub Pellazo -
I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed... Don't ask for guarantees. And don't look to be saved in any one thing, person, machine, or library. Do your own bit of saving, and if you drown, at least die knowing you were heading for shore..
Mimi Novic - The Silence Between the Sighs
Every day something inside us dies because we do not have the courage to follow our dreams
EverSkeptic -
It's so touching to see so much regret in the eyes of people when they say. 'I have no regrets in life
Rodman Philbrick - The Last Book in the Universe
I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.
Lailah Gifty Akita -
I have no regrets. Every experience is the wrong-path is chance to turn to right route for the ultimate travel to the destined-land.
Emil M. Cioran -
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact.
Sunday Adelaja -
Express your regrets to the right people and you will be encouraged positively
Iris Murdoch - the Sea
Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.
Robin Sacredfire -
People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our lives. But, the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life.
Robin Sacredfire -
People always get exactly what they believe to deserve, despite the fact that they may be unhappy with what they have. We are 100% responsible for our destiny, and I would dare to say 200%, because we do create the conditions for the future we end up attracting to our life. But the challenge is in learning to see it, and noticing how we do this. Therefore, there's really nothing to regret about life.
Bobby Darnell - Time For Dervin - Living Large In Geiggityville
Never let your regrets outnumber your dreams
Laura McHugh - Arrowood
We all had dreams, regrets, accomplishments, people we'd loved and disappointed, and at some point, for each of us, those earthly concerns would fall away, our lives replaced in an instant by darkness or--if you believed--light. Sometimes deaths came too soon, sometimes not soon enough, and only for certain sinners did it come at a time of one's choosing.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
anytime you speak to anybody, remember somebody
Tami Egonu - A Rhapsody of Dreams
The old are often forgotten. Life moves on without a care for those who wish to remain in the past. We tend to talk too much because it’s rare that we’re listened to.
Rasheed Ogunlaru -
Rest and peace should not be left until you're deceased. They are two vital life incredients everybody needs and seeks.
Lailah Gifty Akita - Think Great: Be Great!
I have no regrets. Everything that happens to me was divinely ordered.
Courtney M. Privett - Mayfly Requiem
The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.
Anna Quindlen - Black and Blue
Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ones.
Munia Khan -
Do not feel sad for your tears as rocks never regret the waterfalls
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
At the school of wisdom, mistake is not just a lesson but, a laboratory
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Sometimes in life, you may take a step, only to realize the steps you missed. Sometimes in life, you may delay a step taking, only to see a step you shouldn’t have miss. Notwithstanding the results of your steps, you still ought to take steps. Life keeps moving and you can’t afford to be static! Keep on moving on!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Not until we leave bad situations for worst situations, we shall least value and appreciate bad situations which shield us from the worst situation
Francisca Olivia -
An opportunity, no matter how small it is, is still worth a golden chance. So take it or have regrets for the rest of your life.
Richard Paul Evans - Lost December
The pages continue to turn, and every day I'm a little older, hopefully a little wiser and a lot more grateful. Do I have regrets? I have a few - but not as many as you might think. If it hadn't been for the darkness, I never would have known the light. In life we all take different paths, some more difficult than others, but in the end, all that matters is whether or not they lead us home.
J.A. Conner -
Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,Then today has been painted blackSome of us live in the presentConnected to gifts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,the today's masterpiece has been cast.
Mokokoma Mokhonoana -
Technically, all tattoos are temporary, even permanent ones.
Nina LaCour -
I imagine what would happen if everyone turned their regrets into wishes, went around shouting them.
Scott Stabile -
you get to a point when you just don’t want to be pushed anymore. pushed to pretend you’re okay with condescending behavior and disrespectful attitudes. pushed to ignore the determined yearnings of your clearest truth. pushed to engage in conversations and situations that in no way serve your state of peace. pushed to act a bogus part and clap for those who are acting theirs. pushed to be quiet and to stay small. pushed to exist rather than live. you get to a point when it’s all too much, too ex
Scott Stabile -
Today, I choose not to take my life for granted.I choose not to look upon the fact that I am healthy, have food in my refrigerator and have clean water to drink as givens. They are not givens for so many people in our world. The fact that I am safe and (relatively) sane are not givens. That I was born into a family who loves me and into a country not ravaged by war are not givens. It is impossible to name all of the circumstances in my life I've taken for granted. All of the basic needs I've had
Avina Celeste -
I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.
Daniel Handler - Why We Broke Up
Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be the one feeling better.
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Styxx
You aren’t old enough to have such regrets.”“Pain doesn’t respect age, my lady.
Harryette Mullen -
I regret to say I'munable to reply to your unexpressed desires.
T.F. Hodge - From Within I Rise: Spiritual Triumph Over Death and Conscious Encounters with "The Divine Presence"
We can't make up for lost time, but we can make room to share space.
Hillary DePiano - New Year's Thieve
NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.
Marilyn L. Rice -
There is no time for regrets. Regrets relate to the past. We have been there. We need to progress to the future.
Ricky Maye -
Stop looking back when your future is ahead of you.
Anthony Liccione -
The future is now! Don't make that second pass you into regrets.
Shannon A. Thompson - Death Before Daylight
I can’t take back the past, but I can fight for the future.
Charles F. Glassman - Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
If only I woulda done that.”“I really shoulda done that.”“I coulda done that.”I ask, “Do you really know what your life would be like now if you made those choices?” Believing in regret strips away our only chance to create a better future. That chance: what we decide to do today, right now, in the present.
Lisa J. Shultz - A Chance to Say Goodbye: Reflections on Losing a Parent
I believe one of the most important reasons I am here today is to practice forgiveness and to learn the power of it as a gift to others and myself. By focusing on forgiveness in my life today, I am promoting my healing and lessening my regrets.
Nicole Krauss -
But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description, for what loss is without the awareness of losing?
Kimberly McCreight - Reconstructing Amelia
Certainly she could never have exchanged pleasantries with anyone. What would there be for them to say anyway? Sorry? Sorry your daughter is dead, Sorry your daughter jumped off the roof of her school when you were on your way to pick her up. Sorry you were late. Too bad you'll be reliving that failure for the rest of your miserable life.
John Banville -
Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the heart what was done could be undone. What form would such atonement take that would turn back time and bring the dead to life? None. None possible, not in the real world. And yet in my imaginings I can clearly see this cleansed new creature steaming up out of myself like a proselyte rising drenched from the baptismal river amid glad cries.
Robin Bielman - Blame it on the Kiss
Regret isn't real. It's something invented to punish ourselves
Charles Lee - The Way To Dawn: Ascension Zero
The one who never repents shall be the one who never sleeps.
L.R. Knost -
When you're lying in bed at night and regrets from the day come to steal your sleep... "I should have" "If only I'd" "I wish I'd"...grab one of them and turn it into an "I will" and sleep peacefully knowing tomorrow will be a better day.
Sherman Alexie -
I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever done. His greatest sin. I wanted to ask him if there was any reason why the Catholic Church would consider him for sainthood. I wanted to open up his dictionary and find the definitions for faith, hope, goodness, sadness, tomato, son, mother, husband, virginity, Jesus, wood, sacrifice, pain, foot, wife, thumb, hand, bread, and sex. "Do you believe in God?" I asked my father."God has lots of potent
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action
Jiddu Krishnamurti - The Flight of the Eagle
Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, when you say to somebody "I love you", when you are considering your children, when you educate them to become soldiers, to kill, to be nationalized, worshipping the flag, educating them to enter into this trap of the modern world; watching all that, realizing your part in it, all that is part of meditation. And when you so meditate you will find in it an extraordinary beauty; you will act rightly at
Criss Jami - Killosophy
There's a difference between thinking you can't be wrong and having no regrets. Wrongness is what occurs prior to empiricism, in hindsight a counterpart of revelation, and revelation is nothing to regret.
Samantha Leahy -
The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.
Kristi Bowman -
Rather than having regrets over events in the past, or worrying whether or not the future will bring you what you need or desire, allow yourself to rest in the present, the now. Understand that all that has transpired has brought you to this moment, and in this very moment, riches that far outweigh those of the world already lie within you.
Vincent van Gogh -
Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.
Roman Payne - Rooftop Soliloquy
Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
Stay calm and exercise restrain during your most desperate moment or you shall desperately say what when your desperation is over, you shall come to a later realization of what you shouldn’t have say and notice how silence could have been the best option to mere words!
Anthony Liccione -
Should it happen, that your partner leaves you for someone else with more money. To where later you strike it richer than the person they left you for, and the ex finds out, after losing all and regretting. It was a blessing that it ended. Though money wasn't sufficient then, mostly they were rich with your love, now suffering being broke in both.
Kilroy J. Oldster - Dead Toad Scrolls
Regret comes in four tones that operate in unison to shape our lives. First, we regret the life that we lived, the decisions we made, the words we said in anger, and enduring the shame wrought from experiencing painful failures in work and love. Secondly, we regret the life we did not live, the opportunities missed, the adventures postponed indefinitely, and the failure to become someone else other than whom we now are. American author Shannon L. Alder said, ‘One of the greatest regrets in life
Tara Estacaan -
For me, my haters are not the ones who I have done wrong with, but the ones I have fought for.
Anna Todd - After We Fell
No tears come, only memories. Memories and regrets.
Anna Todd - After We Fell
No teas come, only memories. Memories and regrets.
Sherrilyn Kenyon - Inferno
Malphas surveyed the women's bodies with utter disgust and sorrowuntil he realized Tabitha was still alive. He knelt by her side and cradled her head tenderly. "Tabby... I'm so sorry"Grimacing she opened her eyes as she labored to breathe. She laughed bitterly, exposing a set of bleeding teeth. "there are some things that sorry doesn't fix, Caleb.""Shhh, don't speak. I can--""you failed us," She went limp in his arms. Her eyes went Dull.Wincing, Caleb held her close to his heart and stroked her
Kassandra Cross - Carrie's First Time: Taboo Older Man Younger Woman First Time Erotic Romance
He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.
Ahmed Ibn Fadlan -
Merciful Father.... I have squandered my days with plans of many things.This was not among them. But at this moment, I beg only, to live the next few minutes well.For all we ought to have thought and have not thought... All we ought to have said and have not said. All we ought to have done and have not done. I pray thee, God for forgiveness.
Dan Groat - An Enigmatic Escape: A Trilogy
Just make sure the day doesn’t pass without sayin’ what’s in your heart. Sometimes you pass up those chances and they’re gone forever.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah -
When the drum beat comes to an end, you shall not hear the drum beat again, but you shall remember how it sounded, and you shall understand clearly how you should or should not have danced to the drum beat
Anthony Liccione -
The heart fools the mind, where eyes went deaf to words, that fell on blinded ears to easy to fall in love.
Charles F. Glassman - Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
When we hold onto worry, regret, and anger, peace of mind, strength of body, and freedom of spirit eludes us.
Auliq-Ice -
Still, pain hurts. And most of us find it difficult, to say the least, to find gratitude in our hearts for the worst things in life.
RSCruz -
Be free to do what you want to... before the time is through.
RSCruz -
Withdraw from talking about leaving someone behind. Just rekindle the friendship and love while you still have that moment together.
Oscar Wilde - The Picture of Dorian Gray
Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's worse habits.
Marilyn Monroe -
Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
Abe Musaibli -
Better to say nothing at all, rather than something you'll regret.
Charles F. Glassman - Brain Drain The Breakthrough That Will Change Your Life
The only regret we should have is allowing regret to hold us back from taking action now.
Charlotte Eriksson -
Hurting people you love is the heaviest kind of regret.
Anthony Liccione -
Suicide is a hasty unresolved death that slowly kills those close-by day by day.
Mark Vonnegut - The Eden Express: A Memoir of Insanity
It's regrets that make painful memories. When I was crazy I did everything just right.
Sarah Addison Allen - The Peach Keeper
People always say life is too short for regrets. But the truth is, it's too long.
Shannon L. Alder -
When you give yourself permission to communicate what matters to you in every situation you will have peace despite rejection or disapproval. Putting a voice to your soul helps you to let go of the negative energy of fear and regret.
Anthony T. Hincks -
If you give in to temptation, you may have a moment of enjoyment, but then you'll have a lifetime of regrets.
Bill Watterson - It's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection
In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me happier to do well at school and become successful. But in the VERY long term, I know which will make better memories.
Haruki Murakami - Dance Dance Dance
People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a way that leaves no regrets. Fairly, and if possible, sincerely. It's too easy not to make the effort, then weep and wring your hands after the person dies.
Nicholas Sparks - The Best of Me
Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when she was eighteen. But she knew that love was messy, just like life. It took turns that people couldn't foresee or even understand, leaving a long trail of regret in its wake. And almost always, those regrets led to the kinds of what if questions that could never be answered.
Gayle Forman - Where She Went
Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.
Sarah Ockler - Bittersweet
Would 'sorry' have made any difference? Does it ever? It's just a word. One word against a thousand actions.
Leonard Cohen - The Favorite Game
Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when the word is made flesh.
Lemony Snicket - Horseradish: Bitter Truths You Can't Avoid
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.
Chloe Neill - Hard Bitten
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
C.G. Jung -
Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
Irvine Welsh - Porno
You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.