Quotes About Regret

I always look for a woman who has a tattoo. I see a woman with a tattoo, and I'm thinking, okay, here's a gal who's capable of making a decision she'll regret in the future.

Live only for today, and you ruin tomorrow.

The one charm of the past is that it is the past.

People who think about the past have no future.

Nothing is ever behind us.

You know most people live ninety per cent in the past, seven per cent in the present, and that only leaves them three per cent for the future.

Sorrow is properly that state of the mind in which our desires are fixed upon the past without looking forward to the future.

I can never predict my future because a big part of my future is already behind me.

You must try never to regret what might have been, child. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot yet see.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment

There ain't no future in the past.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Live in the present tense, facing the duty at hand without regret for the past or worry over the future.

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

She didn't want to be reminded of her past or how different her present was from the future she'd taken for granted.

I know not why there is such a melancholy feeling attached to the remembrance of past happiness, except that we fear that the future can have nothing so bright as the past.

I stole their future from them; I can only being to repay by seeing what I can learn from their past.

You occupied my space. But because you were not in my present, when I looked into my future I saw . . . nothing. Isn't that sad? And stupid?

He missed his imagined future.

Photographs force us to see people before their future weighed them down, before they knew their endings.

Talking about the future, like we had a clue. Never plans that one day, I'd be losing you