Quotes About Regret

But over the long haul, we regret inactions more than actions, 84 to 16 percent.

The survey consisted of one question: If you had your life to live all over again, what would you do differently? Three replies emerged as a consensus. One, risk more. Two, reflect more. Three, do more things that live on after you die.

At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had. It's the what if dreams that we never act upon that turn into if only regrets.

The heart is a repository of vanished things:

attitudes about being wrong, losing money, missing out, and leaving money on the table.

Why, oh why had he taken up Debbie's offer of a free personal training session, and today of all days? There was no way he was going to get ripped abs by this evening, and the muscles he suspected he'd torn in his lower back were hardly the same thing.

I hate to wake up one morning and find out she was killed in a rockslide!

Those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those who do regret it have no brain.

she needed someone to hold her, but she couldn't bring herself to ask her husband, not after what she had done to him.

But if you always play it safe, it's a safe bet you'll end up sorry.

In the end we regret not what we have done but what we have not done.

The sky was just beginning to light up a little, the quiet time when all the air is clean and you can hear birds, even in the middle of New York City, the time of day you never see except by accident, and you always tell yourself, "I must get up and appreciate this time of day once in awhile," and then you never do. Don't ask me why.

She died on a windy gray day in March when the sky was full of darting crows and the world lay prostrate and defeated after winter. Peter Lake was at her side and it ruined him forever. It broke him as he had not ever imagined he could have been broken. He would never again be young, or able to remember what it was like to be young. What he had once taken to be pleasures would appear to him in his defeat as hideous and deserved punishments for reckless vanity.

Guess that's thirty-one pieces of silver you've got now, huh? Sleep well, Judas.

Replaying her words in my head, I could feel my face redden again. I wanted to flush my head down the toilet.

Now and then I'd catch my mother looking at my like she was thinking about her life, like she was about to say something, but she never did. I didn't expect it. Sometimes it's better not to go back--just settle accounts as they are, call it even.

I can navigate the canals of self-delusion, say, like nobody's business. The less certain something is, the more I understand it; the less tangible it is, the more readily my fingers grasp it. Just give me a little shove down the byways of regret, and I'm in my element. Which

For soon the leaves, Having gone black, would fall, and the annulling snow Would pillow the walk, and we, with shovels in hand, would meet, Bow, and scrape the sidewalk clean. What else would there be This late in the day for us but desire to make amends And start again, the sun's compassion as it disappears.

When at last he took off his glasses, the sun was setting, casting the lake in coppers and golds. He wiped away tears and put his glasses back on. Then he looked over, gave me a sad, sweet smile, and put his palm across his heart. "Forgive an old man his memories," Pino said. "Some loves never die.

Forgive an old man his memories," Pino said. "Some loves never die.

I failed you," Pino choked. "Christmas Eve, you were there to stand by me, come what may. And I wasn't there for you. I . . . I don't know why. I can't even explain it to myself. I wish I'd stood against the wall with you, Anna.

arms around Pino. "Do you forgive me?

The truck sped up, and Adeline's cousin spiraled out of her life like a leaf caught in a gale.

Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did do. So throw off the bowlines. Sail away from the safe harbour. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover.