Quotes About Regret

Perhaps it was wrong to lie with him. Now I have given him what he wanted. Now I have nothing for him, nothing held back, nothing to hold him.

This is who we are. We sail away from the place we love and then because we aren't there to love it people go with axes and burning torches and smash and burn and then we say, Oh, too sad. But we abandoned it, left it to our barbarian successors to destroy.

In death as in life he would be full of unspoken words and they would be his Hell, tormenting him through all eternity.

How deeply could she have cared for me if she could dive so swiftly into the next things? How real had it been? Such thoughts plagued me, though I knew, in my deepest heart, that this was me trying to shift the blame, and the blame could not be shifted, it rested firmly on my shoulders.—So this was

We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy. Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment.And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.

Among the many paradoxes of human life, this is perhaps the most peculiar and consequential: We often behave in ways that are guaranteed to make us unhappy. Many of us spend our lives marching with open eyes toward remorse, regret, guilt, and disappointment. And nowhere do our injuries seem more casually self-inflicted, or the suffering we create more disproportionate to the needs of the moment, than in the lies we tell to other human beings. Lying is the royal road to chaos.

If you're constantly ruminating about what you just did- or what you should have done- or what you would have done if you only had the chance, you will miss your life. Ok, you will fail to connect with it. You will fail to connect with other people.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

I broke up with her to avoid getting into a serious relationship with her, and now it

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret.

Rather the pain of discipline than the pain of regret.

The really unhappy person is the one who leaves undone what they can do, and starts doing what they don't understand; no wonder they come to grief.

I will not live the rest of my life in regret.

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.

If I had my whole life to live over again, I don't think I'd have the strength.

O that one unguarded moment! / Were it mine to live again, / All the strength of its temptation / Would appeal to me in vain.

What a burden it must be to know all the terrible things you've done and support it with arms unfit to carry it all.

At the worst, a house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived.

If I make a wrong decision, I worry what might have been. I stress out over very insignificant things.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

The last thing you want to do is finish playing or doing anything and wish you would have worked harder.

If i will start all over again I would chose network marketing.

I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.