Quotes About Regret

Energy has a way of dissipating, you know; what can be done when you're eleven can often never be done again.

In the end, daughter of pandora that I am, my curiosity got the best of me. I wish it hadn't.

Marry in haste, repent in leisure.

Too late always comes too early. She

Forty seemed about right, and it occurred to me that it's too bad for a fella to die at forty, a real shame. It's a man's most anonymous age.

At the same moment a cold chill traced a finger down the middle of my back. Sometimes things come back to you, that's all. Sometimes they come back.

You'll consider what you did wrong & bookend your reflections with hunger – no supper, no breakfast.

Leaving for the night, it came to me. What I should have told her. Life goes on - that's what I should have said. That's what you say to people when a loved one dies. But, thinking it over, I was glad I didn't. Because maybe that's what she was afraid of.

Goodbye, Sadie. You never knew me, but I love you, honey.

There is nothing to be gained from regret," said Mrs Steadman. "The question is where do you go from here?

Why do you suppose it is... that the idea of being young again is so appealing when being young the first time around was such hell?

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result.

How Many People on Their Deathbed Wish They'd Spent More Time at the Office?

We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as a result

I'm sure there are people who, even suddenly understanding the true situation, would have felt no more than a twinge of regret or vague guilt as they continued to sit in embarrassed silence beside the grieving, confused man. On the other hand, I am equally certain there are people who would have been far more sensitive in the first place, who may have recognized that a deeper problem existed and reached out to understand and help before I did.

For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the Circle of Concern. We can't recall them, we can't undo them, we can't control the consequences that came as

I can't spend my whole life just sitting on my hands and wondering when I'm going to fade. I can't. That's worse than doing something wrong. Isn't it?

You've got it backward. You're doing it to yourself. Punishing yourself for something you didn't have the power to change. You can't forgive yourself, so you refuse to forgive anybody else.

He had burned that book too late.

the sunlight closed behind them like an unregainable door.

Every so often we long to steal to the land of what-might-have-been. But that doesn't soften the ache we feel when reality sets back in.

El mejor momento para plantar un árbol fue hace 20 años. El segundo mejor momento es ahora. PROVERBIO CHINO

Hay momentos en los que desearía poder hacer retroceder el reloj y quitar toda la tristeza, pero tengo la sensación de que si lo hiciera, la alegría se habría ido también. NICHOLAS SPARKS, ESCRITOR

Anger caused mistakes.