2,008 Quotes About Regret

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

A life well lived is a life without regret. You hold the key to a better life, and you have the power to unlock the satisfaction of a life well lived.

Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,Then today has been painted black Some of us live in the presentConnected to gifts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,the today's masterpiece has been cast.

Sister - if all this is true, what could I do or undo?

In a world thronged with monsters and with gods, we know little peace of mind. There is hardly a single action we perform in that phase which we would not give anything, in later life, to be able to annul. Whereas what we ought to regret is that we no longer possess the spontaneity which made us perform them. In later life we look at things in a more practical way, in full conformity with the rest of society, but adolescence is the only period in which we learn anything.

if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

The path you do not take today is the path you will regret not taking tomorrow.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell