Regrets Quotes

Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.

~ C.g. Jung

You were what you were and you are what you are. Fuck that regrets bullshit.

~ Irvine Welsh

One day, perhaps, you will see for yourself that regrets are as nothing. The value lies in how they are answered.

~ Steven Erikson

Whenever you lose someone you love, you have those lingering regrets. You wish you could hug them or kiss them or talk to them...I don't want those regrets

~ Lisa De Jong

RegretsTiming is irrelevant when two people are meant for each other. It's what I once believed.But we met during a time when I was such a mess, when I still had so much to figure out. How could I have known how crucial every word, every action was or how losing you would be something I would always regret?If only you could have met me now, how different it would be. How much I have changed. How I have grown. I learned so much from all the mistakes I made with you. I just wish I had made them with someone else.

~ Lang Leav

I dare say there's many a woman makes as sad a mistake as I have done, and only finds it out too late.

~ Elizabeth Gaskell

The brave don't live forever but the cautious don't live at all. The only thing that's truly terrifying is the unlived life.

~ Bill See

Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a grief, not a joy, not a girl, not a boy,not a doubt, not a trust, not a scorn, not a lust,not a hope, not a fear, not a smile, not a tear,not a name, not a face, no time, no place...that I do not regret, exceedingly.An ordure, from beginning to end.

~ Samuel Beckett

I looked after that Dudley family for too long, over six years. His daddy would take him to the garage and whip him with a rubber hose-pipe trying to beat the girl out a that boy until I couldn't stand it no more.... I wish to God I'd told John Green Dudley he ain't going to hell. That he ain't no sideshow freak cause he like boys. I wish to God I'd filled his ears with good things like I'm trying to do with Mae Mobley. Instead, I just sat in the kitchen, waiting to put the salve on them hose-pipe welts.

~ Kathryn Stockett

One hesitates to open a new chapter when the old one is not resolved.

~ Jude Morgan

In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

~ David Stanley

May posterity show mercy when it look back upon the work we do today. We did what we could with what we had.

~ Mira Grant

Regrets... Regrets are bootless. A vain trick of the mind. An impotent raging against what cannot be changed anyway. A distraction from the moment.

~ Andrew Ashling

You're right, Norah, anything can happen, anytime. But what goes wrong isn't your fault. You can't spend the rest of your life tiptoeing around to try and avert disaster. It won't work. You'll just end up missing the life you have.

~ Kim Edwards

It was becoming more and more evident that Salem was a town that celebrated individuality, a real live-and-let-live kind of place. Melody felt a gut punch of regret. Her old nose would have fit in here.Look! She pointed at the multicolored car whizzing by. Its black door were from a Mercedes coupe, the white hood from a BMW; the silver trunk was Jaguar, the red convertible top was Lexus, the whitewall tires were Bentley, the sound system was Bose, and the music was classical. A hood ornament from each model dangled from the rear view mirror. Its license plate appropriately read MUTT.That car looks like a moving Benton ad.Or a pileup on Rodeo drive. Candace snapped a picture with her iPhone and e-mailed to her friends back home. They responded instantly with a shot of what they were doing. It must have involved the mall because Candace picked up her pace and began asking anyone under the age of fifty where the cool people hung out.

~ Lisi Harrison

Look to the past only to find ways to improve your present and future, never to find regrets. Don’t let what has happened in the past limit your life now. Let your past expand your life.

~ Avina Celeste

Sometimes, you can hold a grudge for so long you forget why you were holding onto it. And before you know it, half a lifetime has gone by and all you’ve got is a empty fist and a lot of regret.

~ Benjamin Wood

Do you have regrets that we were so overwhelmed? Do you ever wish to live those hours over again and differently, with more confidence.

~ Anaïs Nin

I have no regrets because I know I did my best – all I could do.

~ Midori Ito

To live without regrets is impossible. To regret not trying is the worst regret of all.

~ Gary Rudz

Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.

~ Tarryn Fisher

You should be so lucky to be like me. I allow myself to be disturbed too often. I'll probably end up talking to birds in a park. But you'll probably end up with regrets.

~ Darnell Lamont Walker

«Regrets»... I regret how timid and meek I was back then... always telling myself that I couldn't do anything, never even daring to try. That's definitely something I regret. (p.330)

~ Ichigo Takano

Learn to say No without any regrets

~ Charmaine J. Forde

It’s not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.

~ Sarvesh Jain

If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though you shall know your ‘had I know’ in the end.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

If there's one thing I've learned in life, if there's one rule I live by, it's never to regret what's happened. Understand by all means, but never regret - it's such a devouring pastime and one that leads nowhere.

~ Alan Goodwin

If you least understand the essence of timely and courageously saying no to what you have to say no to, when you have to say no, you shall always say yes to what is due no remorsefully and count the cost of never saying no when you had to in pity though shall know your had I know in the end.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

when you really realize how you have lived your life, you indeed realize how you must live your life. It is mostly they that have least time to ponder always who always find time to wonder.

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Regrets are a terrible thing to live with but, if we take a good look at them, some are not regrets at all, they’re situations that taught us a valuable lesson. Don’t be so hard on yourself it’s not a perfect world.

~ Ron Baratono

You discover you are old when your regrets replace your dreams.

~ Jeffrey Fry

While you're deep in something, you never say or do what you need to. It's always after the fact, when it's too late, that you realize what you should've said or done.

~ Jennifer L. Armentrout

When the minds of men slip from realities to fantasies without thinking of the future consequences, then we must ponder. When the hearts of men are entangled with what though might seem great but yet, specious ambitions without pondering over the resulting footprints, then we ought to take precautions. When the hands of men unwittingly and for the sake of self-gratification find the right weapons and dexterity for the wrong purpose, then massacre and cruelties leave indelible footprints of sorrow and bitterness in the hearts of men. We shall always look back to the footprints of yesterday to say had we know if we don’t take a critical look at today’s footsteps. There is always an alternative that is better than good

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

~ Yasmina Khadra

if you will not always think about the decisions you are taking, you shall always think about the decisions you should have taken in regret, in wonder or in joy. Regrets of the past shall always remain an indelible footprint but the lessons from regrets can always be learned and be used

~ Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

Regrets are for wusses.

~ Jen Calonita

You’ll finally realize the importance of the spark of that diamond when you lost it.

~ Rscruz

Shit. The mind gets up to funny tricks, doesn't it? Shadows grow faces.

~ Stephen King

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

I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.

~ Jamie Mason