Regrets Quotes

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

No one likes a person that should of all over the place.

~ Shannon L. Alder

I always ended up doing things I didn’t want to do today just so I didn’t regret not doing them tomorrow.

~ Hilary Grossman

It should make you shake and sweat,nightmare you, strand you in the desertof irrevocable desolation, the consequencesseared into the vein, no matter what adrenalinefeeds the muscle its courage, no matterwhat god shines down on you, no matterwhat crackling pain and angeryou carry in your fists, my friend,it should break your heart to kill.

~ Brian Turner

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly she might have managed things better--her husband; money; his books. But for her own part she would never for a single second regret her decision, evade difficulties, or slur over duties

~ Virginia Woolf

The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.

~ Hafsa Shah

Books keep and reciprocate our secrets, dreams, regrets, and hopes better than any friend in the world.

~ Drea Damara

We've all done things we'd rather keep in the dark. It's only by shedding light on them that our demons can disappear.

~ Michelle Moran

Don't spend a lifetime regretting the decisions that you made. Chances are, that someone else would have made them for you anyway.

~ Anthony T. Hincks

Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

~ Bo Schembechler

When you get caught up on other peoples' problems, solve them with caution so you don't suffer the excessive burdens of regrets.

~ Darmie O-Lujon

We see our sins reflected everywhere: in the pallor of our intimates’ faces, in the scratching of tree branches against windows, in the strange movements of everyday objects. These may be messages from God or tricks of the eye, but in neither case are we permitted to ignore them.

~ Anna Godbersen

My mother is a certainty. I can count on the watercolour pain in her voice when she calls to say she hasn't heard from me in months. The precarious laughter as she comes from the kitchen, when I finally do appear on her doorstep, the laughter that says I might be a chickadee that's alighted unexpectedly on her thumb.

~ Trevor Cole

My mother may no longer be (if she ever was) a mast to which I can rope myself. But I fear the loss of Lesley. Without her observance, and her sturdy presence, I would feel windblown.

~ Trevor Cole

Let go... How would your life be different if you learned to let go of things that have already let go of you? From relationships long gone, to old grudges, to regrets, to all the 'could’ve' and 'should’ve,' to the dead friendships you still hang on to... Free yourself from the burden of a past you cannot change.

~ Steve Maraboli

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

~ Timothy Schaffert

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

~ Mickey Mantle

Ignoring intuition to follow some course in life always has the potential for regrets.

~ Steven Redhead

...I live with regrets - the bittersweet loss of innocence - the red track of the moon upon the lake - the inability to return and do it again...

~ John Geddes

Do not be discouraged by the disappointments you meet. Don't ever loose hope because, you missed opportunities. Disappointment and missing opportunities are all essential components of life. They give us the reasons to reason and they teach us the best lessons in life. They give a clear distinction between the wonder and the wander. When you meet disappointments, ponder! you may be on the great bath to that great appointment.Instead of being disappointed by disappointments, find the 'this appointment' disappointments show you. Instead of crying over missing and missed opportunities, let missing and missed opportunities miss you

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

when you make numerous mistakes, don't worry. You have numerous lessons of life in your bosom. The most important thing is recognizing, accepting and learning the lessons out of the lessons. just ponder!

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.― Marilyn Monroe

~ Sherri Sue Fisher

Now I know what a ghost is. Unfinished business, that's what.

~ Salman Rushdie

Life is too short to have debts and doubts, Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

~ Ana Claudia Antunes

Crazy was better than in love. You could walk away from crazy without regrets.

~ Starr Ambrose

Accepting the fact that she did indeed have Alzheimer's, that she could only bank on two unacceptably effective drugs available to treat it, and that she couldn't trade any of this in for some other, curable disease, what did she want? Assuming the in vitro procedure worked, she wanted to live to hold Anna's baby and know it was her grandchild. She wanted to see Lydia act in something she was proud of. She wanted to see Tom fall in love. She wanted one more sabbatical year with John. She wanted to read every book she could before she could no longer read.She laughed a little, surprised at what she'd just revealed about herself. Nowhere in that list was anything about linguistics, teaching, or Harvard. She ate her last bite of cone. She wanted more sunny, seventy-degree days and ice-cream cones.

~ Lisa Genova

We're all stuck between the realm of our desires, their possibilities and the realities of life.

~ Huseyn Raza

Elle wondered if he had regrets. But she didn't let herself wonder for too long. She had locked her heart up against him, and it would take something extraordinarily strong to break it open.

~ Harriet Evans

Hands up if you’re ready to do something you’ll regret this weekend. Go forth! You have my blessing.

~ Florence Welch

I am sorry, I cannot help you. I am only a cookie.

~ Chinese Fortune Cookie

Better safe than sorry!

~ Jodi Picoult

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

~ Jennifer Aniston

I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.

~ Paulo Coelho

It really sucks when good things are being hated over the bad one.

~ Ridhdhesh Jivawala

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open country; sometimes following the visible road, but sometimes leaving it curiously to tread across meadows where only occasional ruins bespoke the ancient presence of a forgotten road.

~ H.p. Lovecraft

Years were wasted trying to make him feel better. I never stopped to see if I felt appreciated.

~ Darian Wilk

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