46 Quotes About Regrets-of-the-past

Don’t let things drag on longer than they should. Before you know it, it’ll be too late and you’ll be full of regret.

The repentance for my sins against morality was enough to blacken my soul.

SometimesAcross the fields of yesterdayShe sometimes comes to meA little girl just back from playthe girl I used to beAnd yet she smiles so wistfullyonce she has crept withinI wonder if she hopes to seethe woman I might have been——1933

Regrets For Yesterday Can Never Find True Forgiveness Today; Forgiveness Today Does Not Live In Yesterdays Regrets

If you haven't done everything possible to live the life you want to live, you will often visit the Land of Regret!

It is now the dog days of August, the breathless days when a person tallies their regrets.

Perhaps human beings are incapable of living without experiencing the blue-tinged taste of loss, failure, and regret. If incidents of remorse, shame, and guilt are unavoidable, perhaps the most we can hope for is to suffer from the type of regrets that hurt least. Sydney Smith (1771-1845), an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric said, ‘Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

...what started with those simple requirements -- make her notice me, but guarantee that nobody understood how I felt -- turned into the cruelest thing I have ever done to another human.

If you erased your past mistakes, you could purge your regrets with them, but you’d also wipe any lessons learned and any subsequent maturity gained. Don’t regret the minefields you stepped into, just try and learn not to step into the same one twice.