2,008 Quotes About Regret

I looked at him: I want one more kiss. I should, could, have seized him.By the next morning, things became officially chilly.

I think that's the hardest part about mistakes: Sometimes the consequences aren't physical. Sometimes they simply chip away at the essence of who you are.

The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner

More often, one decision can change the entire course of a life.

She lashed herself with every failing she could think of, then every regret, and fell to the ground, sobbing.

The trick, it seems to me, is to stave off regret. That’s what the whole thing is about. And we can’t stave it off forever, because it is impossible not to make the mistakes that let regret in, but the best of us manage to limp on into our sixties or seventies before we succumb. Me, I made it to about thirty-seven, and David made it to the same age, and my brother gave up the ghost even before that. And I’m not sure that there is a cure for regret. I suspect not.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.