Regret Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

Here is a collection of regret quotes and sayings from various authors, celebrities, famous persons, and other sources compiled by allinspiration.com for you to read and enjoy.

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.”
– Alexander Graham Bell

“You’d think, ‘What if I make a mistake today, I’ll regret it’. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.”
– Angelina Jolie

“Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.”
– Arthur Brisbane

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”
– Arthur Miller

“Accept the pain, cherish the joys, resolve the regrets; then can come the best of benedictions – “If I had my life to live over again, I’d do it all the same”
– Authar Unknown

“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”
– Authar Unknown

“Regret is insight that comes a day too late”
– Authar Unknown

“To regret something is to hang yourself with your own noose. Mental suicide.”
– Authar Unknown

“People so seldom say I love you And then it’s either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn’t mean I know you’ll never go, Only that I wish you didn’t have to.”
– Author Unknown

“If we spend our time with regrets over yesterday, and worries over what might happen tomorrow, we have no today in which to live.”
– Author Unknown

“Don’t fret over what you regret, just forget.”
– Author Unknown

“People so seldom say I love you And then it’s either too late or love goes. So when I tell you I love you, It doesn’t mean I know you’ll never go, Only that I wish you didn’t have to.”
– Author Unknown

“The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else–grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.”
– Beverly Cleary

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”
– Bob Dylan

“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.”
– Brittany Renée

“I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I’d just been myself.”
– Brittany Renée

“Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done”
– Chad Michael Murray

“Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.”
– Charles Dickens

“There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.”
– Charles Dickens

“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.”
– Charles Dudley Warner

“He tried to name which of the deadly seven might apply, and when he failed he decided to append an eighth, regret.”
– Charles Frazier

“A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.”
– Charles Goodyear

“I’d never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn’t see how that wasn’t cowardice…”
– China Miéville

“When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago–and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail–it’s disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They die long before you do. It’s astonishing to consider all the things from your past that used to happen all the time but (a) never happen anymore, and (b) never even cross your mind. It’s almost like those things didn’t happen. Or maybe it seems like they just happened to someone else. To someone you don’t really know. To someone you just hung out with for one night, and now you can’t even remember her name.”
– Chuck Klosterman

“Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.”
– Claire Holden Rothman

“But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-”
– Clifford Chase

“When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything – that is the definition of conviction.”
– Criss Jami

“Take the stupidest thing you’ve ever done. At least it’s done. It’s over. It’s gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it’s harder to learn or heal or move on from something that hasn’t happened; something we don’t know and is therefore indefinable; something which could very easily have been the best thing in our lives, if only we’d taken the plunge, if only we’d held our breath and stood up and done it, if only we’d said yes.”
– Danny Wallace

“There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.”
– David Rakoff

“My biggest regret in life is that I didn’t hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.”
– Denis Leary

“The problem with living so long is that we get used to it. We watch the mortals age and wither and die around us, watch the world change and decay…but no matter the hardship or the pain or the sorrow we suffer, we choose to continue living. Out of sheer habit, I think.”
– Derek Landy

“I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.
– Drew Barrymore”

“The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say “yesterday I was happy, today I am not.”
– E.M. Forster

“There is nothing to regret – either for those who go or for those who are left behind”
– Eleanor Roosevelt

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