Regret Quotes

How quickly he fell, how soon it was over.

~ Donna Tartt

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I'd kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows in video games. Working shifts at Smart Aid. Dying inside, day by day, from regret.

~ Ransom Riggs

Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

I shouldn’t have gone out so far, fish,” he said. “Neither for you nor for me. I’m sorry, fish.

~ Ernest Hemingway

As he left Yata’s home that morning, he knew that a part of his life was complete and that whatever path he chose, he would experience the ache of unfulfilled dreams. For a moment he allowed himself to feel regret at the thought of never building a cottage by the river with Trevanion. Or living the life of a simple farmer connected to the earth. Or traveling his kingdom, satisfying the nomad he had become. To be Finnikin of the Rock and the Monts and the River and the Flatlands and the Forest. To be none of those at all.Yet he also knew that to lose her to another man would be a slow torture every day for the rest of his life.

~ Melina Marchetta

I was so ashamed for a mistake I made unknowingly when I was completely out of control and lost my mind for some reasons. I thought about to end my life next day at some point. I was struggling to cope with my pain, shame and thinking about others who I had hurt unintentionally. The worst moment came when people who I loved most had pulled out their support and threatens me to end relationships. Lesson learns hard way that people who are not with you at worst time of your life have no right to stand beside you when you are at best. Life goes on...........

~ Sammy Toora Powerlifter

These Days, Keeping Anything Simple Is The Most Complex Task To Do....

~ Muhammad Imran Hasan

They say, the sun brings life to the world. The sun will rise and look is it not a corpse? Everything is dead and there are corpses everywhere. Just people and around them silence__that is the world! Love one another__who said that? Whose command is that? The pendulum swings unfeelingly, antagonistically. It's two o'clock at night. Her slippers are standing by her bed, as if waiting for her.... No, seriously, when they take her away tomorrow, what shall I do?

~ Fyodor Dostoyevsky

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you'll REGRET it!

~ Israelmore Ayivor

Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high. In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.

~ Puerto Rican Princess

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight

~ Phil Volatile

That night, when you kissed me, I thought you did it because you were drinking. All I could focus on was getting you home before you did something you’d regret in the morning. I didn't want to be your regret, Serenity. My heart couldn’t handle it. Shit, it's been two years and my heart still can't handle the fact that we don’t talk anymore.

~ Melyssa Winchester

There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.

~ M.f. Moonzajer

If you are aware of the kind of hunger, regrets and frustrations that follows rumpy pumpy, you would stir clear from hanky panky.

~ Michael Bassey Johnson

Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.

~ Michael J. Sullivan

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show), she was Veena's love of music, Pran's asthma, Maan's generosity, the survival of some refugees four years ago, the neem leaves that would preserve quilts stored in the great zinc trunks of Prem Nivas, the moulting feather of some pond-heron, a small unrung brass bell, the memory of decency in an indecent time, the temperament of Bhaskar's great-grandchildren. Indeed, for all the Minsisster of Revenue's impatience with her, she was his regret.And it was right that she should continue to be so, for he should have treated her better while she lived, the poor, ignorant, grieving fool.

~ Vikram Seth

I'd chosen the regret I could live with best, that's all. I'd chosen the life I belonged to.

~ Sue Monk Kidd

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

~ Oche Otorkpa

Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is a new beginning.

~ Kitt Weagant

So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the dead.

~ Laura Lam

His palm presses against my cheek, stroking away stray strands of hair, “Eve, I’ve never been so scared. The thought that I’d never get to see you again, to apologise for the way I treated you, I couldn’t bear it. When they dragged you out I was so relieved, knowing that I had a chance to get you back.” He squeezes me tightly against his body as he admits, “I can’t lose you Eve. Them taking you made everything so clear. I love you and I thought I wasn’t going to get the chance to prove how much. I couldn’t let that happen.

~ Angela Louise Mcgurk

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn't take.

~ Ziad K. Abdelnour

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

~ Chaim Potok

I spent the past two years fearing the worst, that I chose safe arms to hold me when his arms weren’t the arms I longed to be in, nor were they really safe. I thought it’s what I deserved. I thought I couldn’t belong in the arms I wanted to really hold me.

~ Andrea Michelle

Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.

~ Magith Noohukhan

Too late... everything's always too late.

~ E.m. Forster

We all have regrets. Anyone who says they have none is a liar, and anyone who thinks they'll live without acquiring some is a fool.

~ Karen Amanda Hooper

There's a time in your life when you have to stop looking back and start looking forward because otherwise you're going to walk down the road one day and bump into a lamppost. But it's not easy.

~ Anna Maxted

Nothin's what it seems, drow! Bruenor declared. Nothin'! Ye try to follow what ye know, ye know? But then ye find that ye know not what ye thought ye knowed! Thought a dog'd be tastin' good - looked good enough - but now me belly's cursing me every move!

~ R.a. Salvatore

I'm afraid that the gift of visiting the past is all that we have. We can revisit it, but only as it happened.

~ Karen Essex

Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

We only understand the true love of our lives when we bound ourself within the boundries of right and wrong.

~ Jitendra Bhardwaj

Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn't worth a damn to anyone.

~ Elizabeth Kelly

What if I had told the boy I loved to leave and it ended up being for nothing?

~ Gabrielle Zevin

Cemeteries are full of unfulfilled dreams... countless echoes of 'could have' and 'should have'… Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret.

~ Steve Maraboli

I've come to accept that parts of life are constant, that just because something happens on two different days doesn't make it a goddamn miracle.

~ Kevin Powers

Appreciate what you have instead of regret ting for something you don't have.

~ Rah_U

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

~ Jim Carrey

Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.

~ Neil Gaiman

You could continue to repress and think about the life you could have had or you can take what you want from life and see that the world finds that person infinitely more irresistible...

~ Roberto Hogue