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Quotes About Regret

One doesn't just chuck away the story of one's life, however much one wishes it had read differently.
~ Eloise Jarvis McGraw
I'll change to a dragon, then you'll be sorry.
~ Eloise McGraw
Ma no, anche l'estate, invece, sarebbe tornata immancabilmente, uguale al solito. Non la si può uccidere, essa è un drago invulnerabile che sempre rinasce, con la sua fanciullezza meravigliosa. Ed era un'orrida gelosia che mi amareggiava, questa: di pensare all'isola di nuovo infuocata dall'estate, senza di me!
~ Elsa Morante
Senti. Non mi va di vedere Procida mentre s'allontana, e si confonde, diventa come una cosa grigia...Preferisco fingere che non sia esistita. Perciò, fino al momento che non se ne vede più niente, sarà meglio ch'io non guardi là.
~ Elsa Morante
I've played pianos, I've jumped on pianos, I've fallen off pianos and I've pushed a piano into the crowd, hit a member of the audience with it and spent the rest of the night frantically apologizing to them.
~ Elton John
It's the damage that we do and never know. It's the words that we don't say that scare me so.
~ Elvis Costello
I took my better nature out, drowned it in a babbling stream/took the blossom of my youth and blew it all to smithereens.
~ Elvis Costello
No use wishing now for any other sin.
~ Elvis Costello
It's a breath you took too late. It's a death that's worse than fate.
~ Elvis Costello
Sad thing is, you can still love someone and be wrong for them.
~ Elvis Presley
Maybe I didn't treat you Quite as good as I should have Maybe I didn't love you Quite as often as I could have Little things I should have said and done I just never took the time You were always on my mind You were always on my mind
~ Elvis Presley
I've come too far, and I don't know how to get back.
~ Elvis Presley
Before you make any choice or take any decision do think twice, in order to avoid regret. For, it does not cost anything. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Endeavour to do only what you can be proud of someday. In other words, desist from doing anything that you might regret in the future or for life. That is to say, always think twice and as well apply wisdom on or before you take any decision or make any choice in life. ~Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Exorcize regrets/worries of any kind from your mind i.e. completely eraze out of your mind regrets/worries over your past life/mistakes/failures/disappointments. Because, it doesn't pay to regret/worry over and over again. Yes you heard me right, doing just that, will only cause you more harm than good. Nevertheless, that's worth adopting isn't it?
~ Emeasoba George
Living in/worrying over your past life/mistakes is only crying over a spilt milk and of which there is no help for it.
~ Emeasoba George
No matter what transpired in your past. You should not look backward regrettably. Yes! what you've got to do is just to look forward hopefully and then work diligently towards making your future better than your past. -Emeasoba George
~ Emeasoba George
Regretting/worrying over the past events/actions is nothing else but only a blind alley i.e. regretting/worrying over and over again is a course of action that definitely leads to nowhere/no progress. Thus, quit worrying over and over again no matter your condition.
~ Emeasoba George
Regretting/worrying over the past events/actions is nothing else but only a blind alley i.e. regretting/worrying over and over again is a course of action that definitely leads to nowhere/progress. Thus, quit worrying over and over again no matter your condition.
~ Emeasoba George
Until you accept your past without any regret, deal with your present proactively and confidently. You will hardly face/embrace/maximize the future ahead of you.
~ Emeasoba George
To have committed every crime but that of being a father.
~ Emil Cioran
How I wish I didn't know anything about myself and this world!
~ Emil Cioran
Nostalgia, more than anything, gives us the shudder of our own imperfection. This is why with Chopin we feel so little like gods.
~ Emil Cioran
I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if, creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity. Yet in a less assured mood, birth seems a calamity I would be miserable not having known.
~ Emil Cioran