Quotes About Regret

Middle age went by while I was mourning for my lost youth.

The time I kill is killing me.

Ah! Pauvre ami, comme il m'aimait!

Epictetus tells us that regret is a waste of our emotional energy. We cannot change the past—it is outside of our control. We can, and should, learn from it, but the only situations we can do something about are those happening here and now.

We are born only once and cannot be born twice, and must forever live no more. You don't control tomorrow, yet you postpone joy. Life is ruined by putting things off, and each of us dies without truly living. —Epicurus, Principal Doctrines

The one thing that troubles me is the ringing; it persists in my ear day and night, like the tolling of a distant temple bell, warning man of the folly of the bomb…. —

Nunca más volveré a verte, y tu nunca más volverás a ver nada

No podemos volver jamás sobre nuestros actos pasados, ni siquiera con un reloj en el corazón.

La vida se desperdicia con los vivos

Les échos de la bombe d'amour allaient et venaient. Mon cœur en aurait longtemps encore des acouphènes. Cette sensation d'extraordinaire gâchis continuait de me hanter. Neutraliser la bombe d'amour était un exercice terriblement mélancolique. Le tout était de ne pas la faire exploser une nouvelle fois

?brelerimin yönünü tersine çevirerek zaman? tersine çevirebilir miyim?" "Hay?r, di?lilerini zorlars?n ve bu inan?lmaz ac? verici olur. Ve hiçbir ?eye de yaramaz. Asla geçmi?teki eylemlerimize geri dönemeyiz, kalbimizde bir saat olsa bile." (syf. 35)

A las 17:30, se acabó . En el reloj de tu corazón, la aguja pequeña jamás volverá a subir a las doce».

Qué poco valoramos las cosas cuando no las hemos perdido!

A golden opportunity may turn into silver if you wait too long to take advantage of it.

No amount of regret can change the past; no amount of fear can prevent the future.

Show me...Show me what I've forgotten...Show me what was so important...that it tore my heart in two?!

I'd had people say, 'You'll enjoy being famous for a week, and you'll never enjoy it again'. But I don't think I had that week. I may have been working and missed that moment.

What is your greatest regret? "Not staying in better touch with people who truly mattered to me before they died unexpectedly.

Most days I wish I never met you. Because then I could sleep at night. I wouldn't have to walk around with the knowledge that someone like you was out there. And I wouldn't have to watch you throw it all away.

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.

At the risk of sounding like Uncle Rico from Napoleon Dynamite who can't let go of the past

It was a decision she would not regret, performing well enough right out of the gate that no further persuasion was required to convince Jamie to drop other sports and focus exclusively on running for the next three years.

You watched it! You can't unwatch it!

If getting drunk was how people forgot they were mortal, then hangovers were how they remembered.