Regret Quotes

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

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

~ Jonathan Heatt

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

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.

~ Joanne Harris

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

~ John Grisham

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.

~ Carrie Snyder

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

~ Steve Maraboli

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.

~ Claire North

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

~ Shahrukh Ahmad

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.

~ Sarah Grimm

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

~ Sarah Grimm

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

~ Sarah Grimm

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

~ Mary Downing Hahn

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.

~ A.c. Grayling

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

~ Peter Hedges

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

~ Jim Mitchem

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.

~ Mansi Soni

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

~ Virginia Woolf

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.

~ Gillian Flynn

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.

~ Robin Hobb

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.

~ Leigh Bardugo