Quotes About Regret

We are never happy; we can only remember that we were so once.

It has ever been my fate to give pain to those whose happiness I should have promoted.

Lauren Oliver, Before I Fall

Why is it that happiness remembered feels like despair?

We only have one life and two choices: sadness and regret for a past we cannot change or happiness for every moment we can choose how to live.

Sin is the preclusion of self-worth.

Nothing thwarts happiness so much as the memory of happiness.

I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.

I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

Heaven help me for the way I am, save me from these evil deeds before I get them done.

The next microsecond, as the water erupted around me, I realized too late that I should've brought the entire Twenty-first Nome to help me.

ZANE: Everyone has an ex they regret.

I came into the world either too early or too late; at present, I am good for nothing.

I did not, I could not and I will never invite Obote, ... This is because Obote is someone who made a lot of mistakes in our history.

If I could apologise and go back and change history I would do. But the goal is still a goal, Argentina became world champions and I was the best player in the world

There is not any memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.

I can only note that the past is beautiful because one never realises an emotion at the time. It expands later, and thus we don't have complete emotions about the present, only about the past.

History is only the register of crimes and misfortunes.

We are bound to lose Ireland in consequence of years of cruelty, stupidity and misgovernment and I would rather lose her as a friend than as a foe.

It is the common calamity of old age to lose whatever might have rendered it desirable.

History is a pathetic junkyard of broken treaties.

I wonder why we hate the past so.

It's so damned humiliating.

Hindsight's a wonderful thing. If we all had it there would be no history to write about.