Actions Quotes Logo

Regrets Quotes

The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.

Picture of Molly Ringwald
Molly RingwaldWhen it Happens to You

Bad days my memory functions no better than an out-of-focus kaleidoscope, but other days me recall i...

Show More

Everyone wanted to believe that endless love was possible. She'd believed in it once too, back when ...

Show More

But how can one regret what, to the mind, has never existed? Even loss is an inaccurate description,...

Show More

Of course married life is merely a habit, a bad habit. But then one regrets the loss even of one's w...

Show More
Picture of Oscar Wilde
Oscar WildeThe Picture of Dorian Gray

I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things ...

Show More

If his decision is correct, he will win the battle, even if it lasts longer than expected. If his de...

Show More

No, Sully'd decided long ago to abstain from all but the most general forms of regret. He allowed hi...

Show More

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

Picture of Salman Rushdie
Salman RushdieThe Satanic Verses

Personally of course I regret everything.Not a word, not a deed, not a thought, not a need,not a gri...

Show More

I wanted to ask my father about his regrets. I wanted to ask him what was the worst thing he'd ever ...

Show More

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

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

Show More
Picture of Steven Erikson
Steven EriksonHouse of Chains

I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and ...

Show More

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

Show More

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

Show More

Damp veils of mist swirled around them. They were dreadfully cold (Moomintroll thought longingly of ...

Show More

How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my m...

Show More

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

When she looked in the glass and saw her hair grey her cheek sunk, at fifty, she thought, possibly s...

Show More

Did not one spend the first half of one's days in dreams of happiness and the second half in regrets...

Show More

If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of beha...

Show More

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed doo...

Show More

I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.Sometimes it's like ...

Show More

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

Show More
Picture of Anaïs Nin
Anaïs NinHenry and June: From "A Journal of Love"--The Unexpurgated Diary of Anaïs Nin

Your children make it impossible to regret your past. They're its finest fruits. Sometimes the only ...

Show More

[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets wi...

Show More
Picture of Anthony Bourdain
Anthony BourdainKitchen Confidential: Adventures in the Culinary Underbelly

In the short term, it would make me happy to go play outside. In the long term, it would make me hap...

Show More
Picture of Bill Watterson
Bill WattersonIt's a Magical World: A Calvin and Hobbes Collection

Hindsight is always zo/20.

regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.

Picture of Charles Bukowski
Charles BukowskiYou Get So Alone at Times That it Just Makes Sense

Reflect upon your present blessings of which every man has many-not on your past misfortunes of wh...

Show More

Warlock: Four thousand and fifty-three metric tons of inert rock, metal and organic matter, frozen s...

Show More

Everything else has vanished, so you take them now. Maybe if you're the one keeping them, I'll be th...

Show More

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every...

Show More
Picture of David Foster Wallace
David Foster WallaceA Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again: Essays and Arguments

This is another day! Are its eyes blurred with maudlin grief for any wasted past? A thousand thousan...

Show More

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

Show More

On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in...

Show More
Picture of Eugene O'Neill
Eugene O'NeillLong Day's Journey Into Night

If you cannot get rid of the family skeleton you may as well make it dance.

I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy an...

Show More

I passed under an arch out of that region of slabs and columns, and wandered through the open countr...

Show More

People die all the time. Life is a lot more fragile than we think. So you should treat others in a w...

Show More

Mercifully one forgets one's love affairs as one forgets one's dreams.

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

was coming to that troubled twilight time, a time of regrets that resemble hopes, of hopes that rese...

Show More

As sure as this Earth is turnin, souls burnin / In search of higher learnin, turnin in every directi...

Show More

There are no regrets in life, just lessons.

Meditation is one of the most serious things; you do it all day, in the office, with the family, whe...

Show More

Empty night, Harry. Didn't your little adventure in the lake teach you a damned thing?"I scowled som...

Show More

Better safe than sorry!

Still the dream persists, suppressed but always there, that somehow by some miraculous effort of the...

Show More

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

What I am mourning is perhaps not worth saving, but I regret its loss nevertheless.

Picture of John Steinbeck
John SteinbeckTravels with Charley: In Search of America

There are the girls we love, the men we look up to, the tenderness, the friendships, the opportuniti...

Show More

If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.

Naturally—and why should I not admit this—I have occasionally wondered to myself how things might ha...

Show More

Children show scars like medals. Lovers use them as a secrets to reveal. A scar is what happens when...

Show More

"The horror of that moment " the King went on "I shall never forget." "You will though " the Queen...

Show More

Whatever with the past has gone the best is always yet to come.

One of my big regrets is that Facebook hasn't had a major chance to shape the mobile operating syste...

Show More