2,008 Quotes About Regret

Never look for the birds of this year in the nests of the last.

In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

It is the secret life that sustains me now, and as I reach the top of that bridge I say it in a whisper, I say it as a prayer, as regret, and as praise. I can't tell you why I do it or what it means, but each night when I drive toward my southern home and my southern life, I whisper these words: 'Lowenstein, Lowenstein.

She wasn't afraid of difficulties, what frightened her was having to choose one particular path. Choosing a path meant missing out on others. She had a whole life to live and she was always thinking that, in the future, she might regret the choices she made now.

It's not my story anymore: whenever I speak about the past now, I feel as if I were talking about something that has nothing to do with me. All that remains in the present are the voice, the presence, and the importance of fulfilling my mission. I don't regret difficulties I experienced; I think they helped me to become the person I am today, I feel the way a warrior must feel after years of training; he doesn't remember the details of everything he learned, but he knows how to strike when the time is right.

To say "no" is painful, but much better than a "yes" that brings regrets.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.