Regret Quotes And Sayings

by allinspiration.com

“The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]”
– Mary Catherine Bateson

“It is with regret that I pronounce the fatal truth: Louis ought to perish rather than a hundred thousand virtuous citizens; Louis must die that the country may live”
– Maximilien Francois Robespierre

“And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for.
– Melina Marchetta

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
– Mercedes Lackey

“If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.”
– Mercedes Lackey

“Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.”
– Miguel Angel Ruiz

“When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They’re gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.”
– Miguel Syjuco

“The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.”
– Napoleon Bonaparte

“Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.”
– Natalie Valdes

“If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.”
– Nicholas Sparks

“And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I shall allow the memories to prod me into doing better with those still living. And I shall allow them to sharpen the vision and intensify the hope for that Great Day coming when we can all throw ourselves into each other’s arms and say, “I’m sorry.”
– Nicholas Wolterstorff

“And I want to tell you about everything but I can’t because I couldn’t stand for you to have that look on your face all the time. I just need you to look at me and think that I’m normal. I just really need that from you.”
– Nina LaCour

“There are so many things that I want so badly to tell you but I just can’t.”
– Nina LaCour

“You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.”
– Nina LaCour

“I wouldn’t waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you’ll have at the end of your life is wasted time.”
– Nora Roberts

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”
– Oliver Goldsmith

“It’s not what you are, it’s what you don’t become that hurts.”
– Oscar Levant

“Every saint has a past and every sinner has a future.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead”
– Oscar Wilde

“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.”
– Oscar Wilde

“One’s real life is often the life that one does not lead”
– Oscar Wilde

“The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife’s feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn’t tainted with guilt and regret.”
– P.D. James

“It is the bungled crime that brings remorse.”
– P.G. Wodehouse

“The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.”
– Phiip K. Dick

“A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams”
– Proverb

“With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.”
– Ralph Waldo Emerson

“There’s a difference between a mistake and a regret. Everything up to this moment has made this moment. If you can change a mistake, then go out and do what you can to change it. If you can’t change it, there’s no use regretting it because it will just make you miserable. Live right now, even if that involves dealing with the consequences of your actions. Time travel always ends badly.”
– Rebecca McKinsey

“Be not wishing and pining, but thankfully content. For it is a short bridge between wanting and regret.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“Rainy, gloomy, drab, sunless day. There are times when hope seems entirely clouded over; when looking for the blessings in your circumstances feels like trying to catch a ray of sunshine from six feet under.”
– Richelle E. Goodrich

“They send a person who can never stay,” she whispered. “Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can’t help … just the sort of person I can’t help falling in love with.”
– Rick Riordan

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