2,008 Quotes About Regret

I wanted to tell her everything, maybe if I'd been able to, we could have lived differently, maybe I'd be there with you now instead of here. Maybe... if I'd said, 'I'm so afraid of losing something I love that I refuse to love anything,' maybe that would have made the impossible possible. Maybe, but I couldn't do it, I had buried too much too deeply inside me. And here I am, instead of there.

It is both a joy and regret to learn more about the endless potential of the Universe because it forces me consider all the possibilities I shall never see.

There is nothing you cannot turn into your favor.

The Regretted has learned

If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.

You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

Those who refused to create the kind of life they want for themselves will end up living their lives for others, and such can only earn them little joy or many sorrow.