Quotes About Regret

Gerry, you peed on Weems's car!" I shrugged. It seemed like the thing to do at the time.

And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different.

Why does that evening's memory Return with this night's storm - A party twenty years ago, Its disappointments warm? There are so many MIGHT-HAVE-BEENS WHAT-IFS that won't stay buried Other cities, other jobs Strangers we might have married And memory insists on pining For places it never went, As if life would be happier Just by being different

She could live without her past. She was better off without her past. But Ian couldn't live without his heart.

If I've learned one thing, its that we can't live in regret. God doesn't want that for our lives.~ Barrett Thorn

Why was so much noticed only in the breach, in the loss, by the regret-filled longing for what was left behind?

Only recently did it dawn on me all the things I will never do: I will never have an apartment in Rome. I will never have another lover. I will never radically change my life again.

Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.

Damn you Gray for getting him so bloody soused he can't even think straight!

I'm sorry," he whispered against the pillow, and meant it. "I know." "I never . . . wanted to hurt you." "I know that too. Rest now. Get better.

He wondered if she knew how much he needed her. He wondered if the lilacs were still in bloom, and what she would have done if he really had broken one off that day in her garden and given it to her, and suddenly wished with all his heart that he had.

Mr. Tibble bowed his head, and Amanda was immediately sorry she'd spoken with such cool disdain. She did not like to see timid Mr. Tibble quake, but she was having a hard time controlling her displeasure. The envelope she'd let fall to her lap, standing out so glaringly white against the skirt of her black bombazine gown, might contain a letter from her deceased parents using just the sort of tender words she'd longed to hear from them

That morning, he was afraid of becoming old, and it was a very specific kind of old age he feared, one which had nothing to do with the number of years since your birth. He feared the premature old age of missed opportunities.

My little son, Atticus, desperately needs his dad and I haven't been there for him... and that's sad.

The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

Happiness comes from moving your life forward toward your life goals with meaning and purpose, based on your values, despite whatever obstacles are in your way. A happy life doesn't focus on the past with regret or look to the future with fear.

As students of the silver screen recall, Bogart's admonition about future regret led Bergman to board the plane and fly away with her husband. Had she stayed with Bogey in Casablanca, she would probably have felt just fine. Not right away, perhaps, but soon, and for the rest of her life.

WHAT WOULD YOU DO right now if you learned that you were going to die in ten minutes?

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

When feeling is for thinking and thinking is for doing, regret is for making us better.

A look at the research shows that regret, handled correctly, offers three broad benefits. It can sharpen our decision-making skills. It can elevate our performance on a range of tasks. And it can strengthen our sense of meaning and connectedness.

Foundation regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the work.

Moral regrets sound like this: If only I'd done the right thing.