Regret Quotes

he should have done all things otherwise: poignant regrets, weary, incessant toiling of the mind to ...

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do th...

Why do we remember the Boys of Summer? We remember because we were young when they were, of course. ...

People do this a lot. They don't seem to realise that the future is just like now, but in a little w...

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I alw...

Nor did he think of Celia any more, though he could sometimes remember having dreamt of her. If only...

What cannot be repaired is not to be regretted.

It was a night of early spring,The winter-sleep was scarcely broken;Around us shadows and the windLi...

There were so many places in my time with Rogerson that I wished I could go back to, hitting the sto...

Not everything's perfect, especially in the beginning. And its all right to have a little bit of reg...

I threw bitter tears at the ocean, but all that came back was the tide.

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life....

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not ...

She was at that crucial age when a women begins to regret having stayed faithful to a husband she ne...

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

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

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time it is regret for the things we did not do that ...

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will ...

We had deluded ourselves that perhaps peace might find the Arabs able, unhelped and untaught, to def...

I grow old … I grow old … I shall wear the bottoms of my trousers rolled. Shall I part my hair behi...

No I am not Prince Hamlet nor was meant to be Am an attendant lord one that will do To swell a prog...

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make ...

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now...

The only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldy enough, that they didn't invest enough h...

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears o...

Think wisely before you exercise an action. Having done so however, never look back and regret. That...

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel ...

No one, on his deathbed, ever regretted having been a Catholic.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

The room had lost its morning light, the glow of expectation and potential. The daylight was now gra...

I don't regret anything I've ever done in life, any choice that I've made. But I'm consumed with reg...

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

This is one of those rare moments when, while doing that which it is one's duty to do, one feels som...

She had dispersed. She was the garden at Prem Nivas (soon to be entered into the annual Flower Show)...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

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

His heart missed a beat and never regretted the lovely loss.

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and it seemed to sad to think that he had wasted...

He was terribly conscious that he only had one life and with seemed to sad to think that he had wast...

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

Mattie was a grown woman in love, and they had to let her go, with their blessing, enduring what cou...

In hours of bliss we oft have met:They could not always last;And though the present I regret,I'm gra...

It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not...

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment...

Name me no names for my disease,With uninforming breath;I tell you I am none of these,But homesick u...

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left...

The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.

The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough.

Ladies tell their nurses things in a sudden burst of confidence, and then, afterwards, they feel unc...

Somehow, the more I get older, and the more I see of people and sadness and illness and everything, ...

Poirot, watching him, felt suddenly a doubt--an uncomfortable twinge. Was there, here, something tha...

She had been wrong to think it wouldn't matter that much to him, yes, he took her for granted, of co...

But you will come to regret this, Abigail. This won’t be like one of the memories that fritters away...

Let's not worry. It's too late now. It will always be too late, fortunately!

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry...

She could not picture it. Herself riding on the subway or streetcar, caring for new horses, talking ...

I looked at it [revolver] as if it reminded me of a crime I had committed with an irrepressible smil...

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel eve...

Oh my God, what if you wake up some day, and you're 65, or 75, and you never got your memoir or nove...

But if you never did anything you couldn't undo you'd end up doing nothing at all.

A man without regrets cannot be cured.

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our f...

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passion...

I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy shou...

Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the oppo...

Some details escaped her, but the regret remained with her.

Wish I didn't know now what I didn't know then.

I don't think I could love you so much if you had nothing to complain of and nothing to regret. I do...

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

I've got a stele we can use. Who wants to do me?""A regrettable choice of words," muttered Magnus.

Can one regret a thing that, however unwise, was beautiful?

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil th...

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

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I ...

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

I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.....

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago--and not in general terms, but in...

They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing ou...

You can tell it any way you want but that's the way it is. I should of done it and I didn’t. And som...

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the d...

She needs a new journal. The one she has is problematic. To get to the present, she needs to page th...

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can't go back.

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth...

Jesus, Dolores, you've got to get yourself together. You've got responsibilities. Think about those ...

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

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I...

And I never started to plow in my lifeThat some one did not stop in the roadAnd take me away to a da...

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattain...

They had never been at peace together, they two; and now he felt himself drawn downward into the str...

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