Quotes About Regret

About these times, my father says that he wishes he had made better decisions. That the burden of raising us alone led him to favor strict regimens and that he wasn't able to talk about his emotions. In retrospect, there is a lot he wishes he'd done differently.

Noam did kill Brennan. He shot his head open like a rotten fruit. He abandoned Dara to the quarantined zone. He let—his own mother killed herself to get away from him. And who could blame her?

Noam knew it was already too late to repair his mistakes. Whatever he and Dara had was broken now. And it was no one's fault but his own.

In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra.

I hope I never meet the guy that did this to you.

This was the problem with a walk down memory lane. It was almost always foggy, and one was likely to trip and fall. But

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth? Perhaps

Popes, cardinals, bishops, priests, and monks carrying on with women, girls, boys, and each other? Hardly ever discussed! Not that there was anything wrong with carrying on— it's hypocrisy that stinks, not sex. But the Church torturing, murdering, crusading against, or infecting with disease millions of people in the name of our Lord the Savior, from Arabia to the Americas? Acknowledged with useless, pious regret, if even that.

If youth was not wasted, how could it be youth?...Let me propose that truth, or some measure of it, can be found in these youthful follies that we forget, to our loss, as adults.

Hypnotized by my squid's call and my erection's response, I inserted the latter into the former, which was, unfortunately, a perfect fit. Unfortunate because from then onward no squid was safe from me, not to say that this diluted form of bestiality—after all, hapless squid, you were dead, though I now see how that raises other moral questions—not to say this transgression occurred often, since squid was a rare treat in our landlocked town.

Ask him why there are hypocrites in the world.' 'Because it is hard to bear the happiness of others.' 'When are we happy?' 'When we desire nothing and realize that possession is only momentary, and so are forever playing.' 'What is regret?' 'To realize that one has spent one's life worrying about the future.' 'What is sorrow?' 'To long for the past.' 'What is the highest pleasure?' 'To hear a good story.

A man starts growing old when his wishes turn into regrets.

An apology is an expression of regret where the voice rarely matches the words.

An apology is saying the right thing after doing the wrong thing.

Don't regret having lost your money; maybe, if you kept it, it would have lost you.

Don't bury the past if you have intentions of visiting the grave on its anniversary.

Looking forward to a world of opportunity is great. Looking back on missed opportunity is not. Grab it now!

Make the best use of time. Don't spend time brooding over past mistakes or worrying about the future. Remember, time lost can never be regained.

The future is that time when you will wish you had done what you are not doing now.

The less you say, the more you don't have to apologize.

The real tragedy of life is that only some of the people in this world succeed in making use of the second chance when God offers them.

There can be nothing worse for a man when he realize that he married the wrong woman.

Live as if you were living a second time, and as though you had acted wrongly the first time.

So live as if you were living already for the second time and as if you had acted the first time as wrongly as you are about to act now!