Quotes About Regret

No man is rich enough to buy back his past.

Love blinds the eyes and only regret will open them.

Adulthood is when the ghosts of childhood appear.

People seem to get nostalgic about a lot of things they weren't so crazy about the first time around.

Opportunities are never lost; someone will take the one you miss.

Over time, the hurt doesn't hurt — only regret does.

You'll wish that you had done some of the hard things when they were easier to do.

A year from now you may wish you had started today!

Don't trade your life for just an empty hourglass.

Aphorism: a concise, clever statement. Afterism: a concise, clever statement you don't think of until too late.

No more be grieved at that which thou hast done: Roses have thorns, and silver fountains mud; Clouds and eclipses stain both moon and sun, And loathsome canker lives in sweetest bud...

The safest risk is the one you didn't take.

There is no Scorpion like a guilty mind— No sting so terrible as he must bear Whose conscience still reproves.

Duibuqi, duibuqi

Of course!" he said foolishly. "Then I wish I had come sooner. I wish I had never gone—from you!" "Oh, Father, do you really? How many times I have wished that!" The blue eyes were full of wistful eagerness now. It had meant a great deal to her! Why had it? Was that her mother looking at him through her eyes? Was he going stark-staring crazy? It was Alice's look. Alice was looking through those eyes of her daughter as one might look through a window!

I saw my ex-husband in the street. I was sitting on the steps of the new library. Hello, my life, I said. We had once been married for twenty-seven years, so I felt justified. He said, What? What life? No life of mine.

I regret to report I let my barely legal self down.

Tinha o coração grosso, queria responsabilizar alguém pela sua desgraça.

Cinquenta anos perdidos. Cinquenta anos gastos sem objetivo, a maltratar-me e a maltratar os outros. Cinquenta anos, quantas horas inúteis… Estraguei a minha vida. Estraguei-a estupidamente.

It's bad enough weeping for the loss of a love you once had. Don't be after weeping for the loss of a love you never had at all.

Like I say, this house is far too big for me anyway, and maybe it'll do my head good to get away from the memories of your Ma. Sometimes I still think that she's upstairs, in bed, and I have to go up just to make sure that she's not.' He paused, and then he said, almost inaudibly, 'She never is.

we [can] catch fish and just throw them back... it [doesn't] seem to hurt the fish much past a cut lip. But then... one [may] swallow the hook...[it'd be] a goner, whether we tried to pull it out or just cut the line. Because once you've swallowed the hook, there's no losing it. Me, I've swallowed it big time.

there is no man, however wise, who has not at some time in his youth said or done things that are so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly expunge them from his memory if he could. In years to come, I will not be haunted by the guilt of all the good I didn't do.

What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.