Quotes on Regret

“We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.”

“regret is mostly caused by not havingdone anything.”

“Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.”

“At the end of the day, let there be no excuses, no explanations, no regrets.”

“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.”

“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.”

“you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.”

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

“There is strange comfort in knowing that no matter what happens today, the Sun will rise again tomorrow.”

“Whoever said that the past isn't dead had it backward. It's the future that's already dead, already played out.”

“The struggles we endure today will be the ‘good old days’ we laugh about tomorrow.”

“No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.”

“The true definition of mental illness is when the majority of your time is spent in the past or future, but rarely living in the realism of NOW.”

“This worldthat was our homefor a brief spellnever brought us anythingbut pain and grief;its a shame that not one of our problemswas ever solved.We departwith a thousand regretsin our hearts.”

“Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future.”

“To escape fear, you have to go through it, not around.”

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

“Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.”

“Loss is only temporary when you believe in God!”

“Life's trials will test you, and shape you, but don’t let them change who you are.”~ Aaron Lauritsen, ‘100 Days Drive”

“A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth.”

“True friends don't come with conditions.”

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.

Nothing weighs heavier on the heart than the regret of excess.

I can’t risk looking backwards, it’s always a bad idea.

If I turned right here I’d go up past my gallery—what was my gallery, now a vacant shop window—but I don’t want to, because that still hurts a little.

I never learn. I wake with a crushing sensation of wrongness, of shame, and I know immediately that I’ve done something stupid.

You can’t regret a romanticized Hallmark version of a past that never existed.

Do not fear failure but please be terrified of regret.

The old who refuse to die merely on principle live on forever, to hate life and complain of all the things they could have been spared had they the good sense to die young.

What stupid children they had been, to cause each other such pain and then to hold on to their wounds so fiercely.

I took all the blame. I admitted mistakes I hadn't made, intentions I'd never had. Whenever she turned cold and hard, I begged her to be good to me again.

I thought that if the right time gets missed, if one has refused or been refused something for too long, it's too late, even if it is finally tackled with energy and received with joy.

I look up, startled, and immediately regret the decision. The room is spinning.

If Callum ever gets out of the way, I would like to rekindle what we had. We never had a real chance together.

The road to power is forged with lies and lives. I have no regrets.

The road to power is forged with lies and lives,” Loch says. “I have no regrets.

I have no use for the truth. I buried it deeply a long time ago.

If Callum ever gets out of the way, I would like to rekindle what we had. We never had a real chance together.

The road to power is forged with lies and lives. I have no regrets.

We will not regret the past nor wish to shut the door on it.

In life, there’s no time to waste, no room for regrets.

In life, there’s no time to waste, no room for regrets.

You can’t undo the past, but you can learn from it.

Lost time is never found again.

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

The past is never really past. It’s only a memory that keeps coming back to haunt you.