Quotes About Regret

It was as if she was a wannabe Persian cat who had just tasted sour milk.

Some people would not be dead if they have not gotten the things or people they had prayed for.

Do you know what happens when you play a country song backwards? You get your wife back, your dog back and your job back.

Alas! Charles made the promise glibly, and forgot all about it.

So why are you so mad at me for kissing you?""Because you took too long. If you'd done that, say, three years ago, we wouldn't have only had one kiss before we both get horribly mutilated.

My gramps is a lot like you. No sense of adventure. All he does is sit in his urn...

You promise?""I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.

The worst sinner has a future, even as the greatest saint has had a past. No one is so good or bad as he imagines.

The most painful state of being is remembering the future, particularly the one you'll never have.

We took such care of tomorrow, but died on the way there.

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

Every year, I am reminded of the kids who aren't in the freshman class and aren't graduating. I remember every single one of them. That is the worst of times for me, to see the future snuffed out.

You could give me the past," he said a little sadly. "But Alec is my future.

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum.

The hardest thing, I think, is to live richly in the present, without letting it be tainted & spoiled out of fear for the future or regret for a badly-managed past.

I don't believe in regrets; I believe your future is in your tomorrows.

A man's past keeps growing, even when his future has come to a full stop.

We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

Sometimes I think I can expiate all my past and future sins through the aching of my bones.

You can wreck your future running from your past.

True repentance has a double aspect. It looks upon things past with a weeping eye, and upon the future with a watchful eye.

Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

That fear of missing out on things makes you miss out on everything.

I ask you to forgive me for not fulfilling some hopes of those people who believed that we would be able to jump from the totalitarian past into a bright, rich and civilized future in one go.