Quotes About Regret

What you write down sometimes leaves you forever, like old photographs left in the bright sun, fading to nothing but white. I pray for that sort of release.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

There's always a later, I know that now. At least until we die. Then I guess it's all before that.

What must it be like for a suicide coming down from a high ledge? I'm sure it must be a very sane feeling. That's probably why they scream all the way down.

She's looking at him with something like wonder. "Why do you weep, Jack?" "The past," he says. "Isn't that always what does it?" And thinks of his mother, sitting by the window, smoking a cigarette, and listening while the radio plays "Crazy Arms." Yes, it's always the past. That's where the hurt is, all you can't get over.

And of our memories, of course. They have voices, too. Ask anyone who has ever lost a limb or a child or a long-cherished dream. Ask anyone who blames himself for a bad decision, usually made in a raw instant (an instant that is most commonly red). Our memories have voices, too. Often sad ones that clamor like raised arms in the dark.

You play it safe and all you end up with is a lifetime of should-have-beens.

The is no greater pain than the one you cause yourself when you let yourself down when a good chance present itself for you to advance your life!

Some commit slow suicide with the sweet poison of their memories.

I stared out at the waves. "Why am I here?" I thought. Finally it came to me. But it was too late. I was a terrible lifeguard.

How sad it was to realize that sometimes you never got there. That sometimes you lived a whole life skittering across the surface as the years passed, unblessed.

The longer you live in the past, the less future you have to enjoy.

There are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

There are things that once done can't be undone, things that once said can't be unsaid.

The are things that you might forget, but you might not clearly forget. Time is the only coin you have to buy the things you want to remember, and to pay for the things you want to leave behind.

Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?

It isn't 'Too late now', shouldn't it be 'From now on'? That is the password that will take away the regret.

Knowledge may be power, but half of what I know I wish I could forget.

Wouldn't it be better to die doing something interesting than to drop dead in an office and the last thing you see is someone you don't like?

Pigeons flew in diminishing waves between the low buildings. The sun rose. It said, Now that you've done this, you can never have that. Now that I'm like this, I can never go back.

Spring is coming....Time for some cleaning. Remove all the self-doubt, worry, jealousy, regret, anger, guilt, or any other negative emotions that are holding you back from your happy, fulfilled life.

real life nightmares kills me as an old man trying to escape from bad guilty memories who basically lives in the present.

You're the one who has to live with your choice, " she says. "Everyone else will get over it, move on, no matter what you decide. But you never will.

I have tried to live my life with no regrets. Because regrets will become guilt in some cases, and guilt eats away at your sanity.