487 Quotes About Regrets

Hester, meanwhile, says we should live all of life back to front. We should be born old and age younger. Our baptism should be a ritual of our funeral. We should die as infants, content in our mothers' arms, having lost all our learning and all sense of disappointment. If only we could die, she says, not knowing we'd ever grieved.

I used to belong to a family unit, with a foster mom and dad and my little sister, Bean, but that's over and I don't want to talk about what happened , or how unfair it was. Not yet. The less said about that the better, because if there's one thing I learned from Ryter it's that you can't always be looking backward or something will hit you from the front.

If I knew I was going to live so long, I'd have taken better care of myself.

children spend their time for they think they have more time; adults cry over their time for they see they have less time

It made him wonder if all things taken from their home too soon lost some of their bloom.

At the end, regrets from not following what others said will be less than the joysfrom following what your heart said.

Pick the axe; chop off the anger; burn the pieces and bury the ashes. Anger kills before it is noticed. It travels faster to the destination to destroy long before conscience arrives to regret it!

...Even [Helen of Troy’s] obsession with Paris was compelled by a poisoned arrow—what’s romantic about that?”“Passion,” Annabelle said, “Eros’s arrows are infused with passion.”“Oh, passion, poison,” Hattie said, “either makes people addle-brained.”She had a point. The ancient Greeks had considered passion a form of madness that infected the blood, and these days, it still inspired elopements and illegal duels and lurid novels. It could even lead a perfectly sensible vicar’s daughter astray.

You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.