2,008 Quotes About Regret

A meaningful apology is one that communicates three R's: regret, responsibility, and remedy.

She was sorry to have been so impatient with him. Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the wordsthey used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

Better my right hand should have been cut off. Go know I was setting in motion events that would lead to the ruin of one of the few truly good men I ever met.

She was sorry to have been so impatient with him. Perhaps if they had stayed together longer, Sabina and Franz would have begun to understand the words they used. Gradually, timorously, their vocabularies would have come together, like bashful lovers, and the music of one would have begun to intersect with the music of the other. But it was too late now.

Whatever has been done, can never be undone. And through all of this misfortune, I was the one to get the stain of guilt, the gross wound.

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.

I owed the greater apology, but at the same time I knew that was done was done, that no matter what I said now I would never be able to make it right.

At the end of your life what you will regret the most is not the mistakes that you made – what you will regret the most are the things that you never tried.

Let all your regrets and mistakes become your sails and your rudders, and not your anchors