Quotes About Regret

We'll always have yesterday.

We could have been perfect if only we'd met when we were both too young to know better.

It's better to have loved and lost than to be nagged about buying a damn anniversary gift every year.

Death's wisdom is finding, at the end, that you think only of those you loved, and why you didn't love them more. Love is the only true force that endures.

At least she (Thomas' mom) knows what she wants is dead. What I want just refuses to be with me. Maybe I should compare notes with her on what's worse, for I swear to God sometimes I think if you were dead this would hurt less.

What one refuses in a minuteNo eternity will return.

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverably for ourselves and for others.

If you don't do this now, I told myself, you'll never do it, and you'll be lying on your deathbed seeing how many likes you got on Instagram. I climbed into the car and refused to look back.

A useless life is only an early death

We lay aside letters never to read them again, and at last we destroy them out of discretion, and so disappears the most beautiful, the most immediate breath of life, irrecoverable for ourselves and for others.

Beware of dissipating your powers strive constantly to concentrate them. Genius thinks it can do whatever it sees others doing, but is sure to repent of every ill-judged outlay.

What a torment it is to see so much loveliness passing and repassing before us, and yet not dare to lay hold of it!

We all of us live upon the past, and through the past we are destroyed.

We look back on our life as a thing of broken pieces, because our mistakes and failures are always the first to strike us, and outweigh in our imagination what we have accomplished and attained.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

An unused life is an early death.

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 could be living the best and happiest of lives if only I were not a fool.

What I possess, I see far distant lying, And what I lost, grows real and undying.

It seems it has been my fate to sadden those I should have made happy.

Men's wretchedness in soothe I so deplore, Not even I would plague the sorry creatures more.

When I go out by the gateway, taking the road I drove along that first time I picked up Lotte for the ball, how very different it all is! It is all over, all of it! There is not a hint of the world that once was, not one bulse-beat of those past emotions. I feel like a ghost returning to the burnt-out ruins of the castle he built in his prime as a prince, which he adorned with magnificent splendours and then, on his deathbed, but full of hope, left to his beloved son

Nothing distresses me more than to see men torment each other; particularly when in the flower of their age, in the very season of pleasure, they waste their few short days of sunshine in quarrels and disputes, and only perceive their error when it is too late to repair it.

I guess if a person never quit when the going got tough, they wouldn't have anything to regret for the rest of their life.