Quotes About Regret

Honorable men don't settle for lives of regret.

I am speechless: what can I answer? I put hand on my mouth. I have said too much already; now I will speak no more.

But nevertheless, it spoke, and I didn't listen, and now I am damned. . .

Three things cannot be called back: the arrow when it speeds from the bow, the milk when the churn is upturned, the word when it leaps from the tongue.

He sighed and shook his head slowly. 'And there will be no bringing back the light once it has gone.

whatever is done cannot be undone, but whatever is lost can sometimes be found.

Humility, if it comes at all, almost always comes too late.

I felt good that, although there was no future, there would always be a past.

Habitual procrastinators will readily testify to all the lost opportunities, missed deadlines, failed relationships and even monetary losses incurred just because of one nasty habit of putting things off until it is often too late.

In the autumn of your years don't make it so that what you look back on is regret. Live your life now so that whatever you do gives some sunshine before you head into the winter of your life.

Some only learn the value of time when it's too late!

Twenty years from now you will be disappointed you never used Cosmic Ordering today.

Failing to forgive yourself for certain wrongs you committed in the past can create self-dislike.

Sometimes we are very convinced that what we went through needs to be re-lived so we end up going back and forth to the demons of the past and eventually we fail to get over them.

Just take my advice and stay away from those psychiatrists they're dangerous. And if you're 13 years old and sitting in front of one do what I never…chin him 'cos if you don't you'll live to regret it. You talk to your mum and dad (they know you best) and keep your problems in the family.

Don't wish. Don't Start. Wishing only wounds the heart.

And Goodness knows The Wicked's lives are lonely Goodness knows The Wicked die alone

I remember days Or at least I try But as years go by They're sort of haze And the bluest ink Isn't really sky And at times I think I would gladly die For a day of sky

Like a fossil tree From which we gather no flowers Sad has been my life Fated no fruit to produce.» Death poem composed by Minamoto Yorimasa immediately before his act of seppuku in the Byodo-in temple of Uji.

Life is not lost by dying! Life is lost Minute by minute, day by dragging day, In all the thousand, small, uncaring ways, The smooth appeasing compromises of time.

It seems such a pity that we can learn to value what we have only thru the loss of it. Truly 'we will never miss the water till the well runs dry.' -Laura Ingalls Wilder, The Farm Home (11) , October 20, 1919

I put air quotes around the word ethical. I regretted doing that. Instantly. I think that was what provoked him.

I coveted you. I had no right to want you--but I reached out and took you anyway. And now look what's become of you! Trying to seduce a vampire.

It is in these moments of tender and ridiculous nostalgia that I know something inside me is still broken.