Regret Quotes And Sayings

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“Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.”
– John Cornelius O’Callaghan V

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: It might have been!”
– John Greenleaf Whittier, P. G. Wodehouse

“They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other.”
– John Irving

“A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can’t alter his power over you. You can’t alter what you love or owe. And it’s too late to ask him for his absolution. He has beaten you all ways.”
– John le Carré

“Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.”
– John Wooden

“It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart”
– Jonathan Carroll

“It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.”
– Jonathan Franzen

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
– Jonathan Larson

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.”
– Jonathan Larson

“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.”
– Jonathan Larson

“The mistakes I’ve made are dead to me. But I can’t take back the things I never did.”
– Jonathan Safran Foer

“If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?”
– José Saramago

“We must be willing to get rid of the life we’ve planned, so as to have the life that is waiting for us. The old skin has to be shed before the new one can come.”
– Joseph Campbell

“Droll thing life is — that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself — that comes too late — a crop of inextinguishable regrets.”
– Joseph Conrad

“Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm … I’m not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.”
– Jude Watson

“Being safe doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry.”
– Katerina Stoykova Klemer

“I have many regrets, and I’m sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don’t regret them, maybe you’re stupid.”
– Katharine Hepburn

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
– Katherine Mansfield

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
– Katherine Mansfield

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in.”
– Katherine Mansfield

“My jealousy is a living thing. Shifting, changing, growing. Like my rage and my mother’s regret.”
– Katja Millay

“Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?”
– Kazuo Ishiguro

“Breath by breath, let go of fear, expectation, anger, regret, cravings, frustration, fatigue. Let go of the need for approval. Let go of old judgments and opinions. Die to all that, and fly free. Soar in the freedom of desirelessness.
– Lama Surya Das

“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.”
– Laura Kasischke

“Speak when you’re angry, and you’ll make the best speech you’ll ever regret.”
– Lawrence J. Peters

“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.”
– Libba Bray

“I’m too old to recover, too narrow to forgive myself.”
– Lillian Hellman

“In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.”
– Lisa See

“You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.”
– Madeleine L’Engle

“Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there’s no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It’s loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road.”
– Margaret Atwood

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