2,008 Quotes About Regret

There is no better time to regret, no matter how much you have failed or improved your situation.

His strike force stood around him, craning their necks, in awe of the massive emptiness all around. He was almost sorry to pull his attention back to the small, vaguely intimate necessities of violence.

Things that you are unlikely to regret: exercise, eating healthily, challenging yourself, making a plan, being kind.

... everyone regrets something, but you can't change the past. You've got to let go and make new memories until the old ones fade enough that they don't hold any power over you.

What he had remembered was to tuck among his changes of clothes one of Regan's framed photographs of the four of them from a few summers back, at Lake Winnipesaukee. He set it up on the nightstand, as if he might swim down into the past, where nothing could go wrong.

Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought sister nations and brother people to fight one another. I do not feel happy for this victory of mine. On the contrary, I would be glad, brothers, if I had all of you standing here next to me, since we are united by the same language, the same blood and the same visions.[Addressing the dead Hellenes of the Battle of Chaeronea]

Regret is a slow and silent killer, a cancer of the soul

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

Pandora's Box could not be unopened, no one could return to Eden.