Quotes About Regret

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

Since the time I resigned, I sometimes wonder whether creating 8chan was a good thing. I sometimes wonder about the things that I said in the past while I was being its admin. Sometimes I think I should have been harder on violent threats. I think maybe I should have worked much harder to improve the moderation systems.

I played the clarinet, and my sister played the violin... If we'd had the discipline and the passion, maybe we could have been good.

I learnt violin at school and hated it. I wish I'd learnt guitar or piano.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

I had a vision with which I might have saved my people, but I had not the strength to do it.

In the best goodbyes, there's always the feeling that there's something more to say.

Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends.

What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back.

Instead of wondering, Am I happy?, maximizers wonder, Is this the best I can do? They experience what Schwartz calls regret in anticipation of making a decision. As he puts it in his book, "You imagine how you'll feel if you discover that there was a better option available. And that leap of imagination may be all it takes to plunge you into a mire of uncertainty.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea. We knew that our supervisor was trying to tell us something important. But we didn't have time to think about it.

How long do you think the sentence for this crime should be? A year? Five? Ten?" Many of us torture ourselves over our mistakes for decades, even after we've genuinely attempted to make amends. How reasonable is that sentence?

I've lost more than my relationship in the present. I've lost my relationship in the future. We tend to think that the future happens later, but we're creating it in our minds every day. When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. And having the future taken away is the mother of all plot twists. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

You won't get today back. And the days were flying by.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back.

You'll turn thirty or forty or fifty anyway, whether your hours are finished or not," she said. "What does it matter what age you are when that happens? Either way, you won't get today back." We all went quiet. You won't get today back. What a chilling idea.

thought about how regret can go one of two ways: it can either shackle you to the past or serve as an engine for change.

anymore." I thought about how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place. During

When the present falls apart, so does the future we had associated with it. But if we spend the present trying to fix the past or control the future, we remain stuck in place, in perpetual regret.

how many people avoid trying for things they really want in life because it's more painful to get close to the goal but not achieve it than not to have taken the chance in the first place.

How could she have been so ungrateful? She envied the French singer who regretted nothing. She regretted all.

How cruel it must be for a man to live past his soul.

Before she closed her eyes tonight, Rose said she regretted that she has not done something heroic in her life. Well, it's not like she can suddenly climb a tree and save a cat, or go to medical school and begin some important cancer research. But Rose has been my sister. I think that's heroic.