2,008 Quotes About Regret

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.

You are so beautiful! So young! So innocent! And you are mine! I have the right to have you! I want you & I will take you! Whether you want it or not! The price I had to pay for this marriage was too high. Everything makes me feel nauseous & disgusted. I had nowhere to run.

Although my marriage was still valid on paper, it had long ceased to exist. It shouldn’t have existed from the very beginning, what was the point in saying what should have been or could have been.

People think it's too hard to do the extra work that's needed to excel. But what's really hard is living with the regret of knowing you could have done more.

When you make people want to remind you or tell you who they are, then you have succeeded in making them uncomfortable about themselves. Don't remind people their good days at the bad times of their lives.

When all you wanted was to be wanted, you wish you could go back and tell yourself what you know now.

I would have to go back into my past and deal with Adrian. My philosopher friend, who gazed on life and decided that any responsible, thinking individual should have the right to reject this gift that had never been asked for - and whose noble gesture re-emphasised with each passing decade the compromise and littleness that most lives consist of. 'Most lives': my life.

We are not our pain.

You see, Katie," Pastor Ron said, "that’s what makes faith so tough to grasp, but also makes it so wonderful. It’s all about believing in something—whether it’s God, or other people, or even yourself—when you’ve got nothing else to go on. Nothing but a little voice inside telling you it’s more than a hunch.