Quotes About Regret

The words "I should have done this back then" are a curse. Whenever they come up, they tangle around your heart and keep you from moving. They bring up all the baggage you carry and dull your emotions. From this point on is a domain where your emotions can't be dull... "I want to get faster", "I want to beat him", "This is fun"... "I want to move forward". You need to have only pure feelings like that, if you want to reach that domain!

No matter how much you hate or how much you suffer, you can't bring the dead back to life

Well, if you live long enough, you lose a lot. Just as long as you don't throw them away. Whatever you loose, you'll find again, but what you throw away you never get back. -Oibore (Enishi's dad) to Yahiko and Misao

there are two pains in life: the pain of discipline, or the pain of regret. You choose.

Even if I caused you sorrow by my letter, I do not regret it. Though I did regret it—I see that my letter hurt you, but only for a little while—yet now I am happy, not because you were made sorry, but because your sorrow led you to repentance. For you became sorrowful as God intended and so were not harmed in any way by us. Godly sorrow brings repentance that leads to salvation and leaves no regret, but worldly sorrow brings death.5

You miss 100 of the shots you never take.

You miss one hundred percent of the shots you don't take.

You miss 100% percent of the shots you don't take

It's easy to look back and see it, and it's easy to give the advice. But the sad fact is, most people don't look beneath the surface until it's too late.

True regret is based on repentance – grieving for the sin, not the consequence of sin.

The qualities that make the soul cling to rebirth or to illusion are vividly encompassed by a Korean word, won, which has a cluster of meanings, including resentment, ingratitude, regret for lost opportunities, and a knot in the stomach; this state of the soul results from being poorly treated or unappreciated while living or from any of the many situations covered by the rubric "to die screaming.

I've learned that if you wait long enough, you might get a second chance at something you gave up on.

If this is the ride of my life, I want a refund.

IT WAS ME. I'M STANDING RIGHT NEXT TO YOU! IT WAS MY FAULT THEY STOPPED GIVING TOURS.

Guilt is hard to live with, but it exists to help us put things right while we still have the chance.

I wonder if because of my reading I have lived more fully or in some ways failed to live, at least in my own time and place.

In spite of everything she did that she shouldn't have done, and everything she didn't do that she should have, something that felt like love was in her and she would take it out at times like this and show it to us and make us hunger for more. All of us, each in our own way.

Una de las grandes vergüenzas de la experiencia humana es que solo sabemos adoptar la conducta adecuada cuando ya es muy tarde.

Yo nunca quiero desear nada después de ver el daño que acarrea el deseo

The last time you gave me 'Hightower detail' he caught me with his underwear in my hands." "I'm sorry I missed that." Nicole's voice rang with suppressed laughter. "We're all sorry we missed that," Deirdre added. "I can't tell you how much I wish I'd missed that," Maddie said drily.

Time will say nothing but I told you so. Time only knows the price we have to pay.

This was incredibly foolish. To live just to die. And to die so easily.

When I look back on most of my life, it breaks my heart that when my brain was unloading an endless pile of what ifs on me, it never asked, "What if I go do this thing that I want to do, and it's . . . fun? What if I enjoy myself, and I'm really glad I went?

You've got to stop worrying about a choice you made fifteen years ago, because you can't change it.