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Quotes About Regret

It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't.
~ Paul Arden
Everything we do we choose. So what is there to regret? You are the person you chose to be.
~ Paul Arden
Judith hated nostalgia. It was just the waiting room for death.
~ Unknown
In this place, upwards of 400,000 British men were going to be killed. They'd lost 20,000 just the other day. He sucked a grim smile. It was like rich countries deliberately killing themselves, leaving their battered remains ready for the revolution that would surely come, for who could return home without wanting to face those who had wasted good men thus?
~ Unknown
so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking
~ Paul Feig
Bella would later greatly regret what she did. As a teacher who was a leader in the union, she was especially concerned about how communists manipulated children through the educational system. "There is no doubt in my mind that the Communists will use the schools and every other educational medium," she told the US Senate. "They will use every educational medium … from the nursery school to the universities.
~ Paul Kengor
The heart out of the bosom Was never given in vain; 'Tis paid with sighs a plenty And sold for endless rue." And I am two-and-twenty, And oh, 'tis true, 'tis true. Into
~ Unknown
And anyway, never, never apologise the morning after for what your hormones were telling you last night.
~ Unknown
The damage love does when love goes astray. And did it ever, given half a chance, fail to wander?
~ Unknown
Then it comes to him—how you can't return to a place you've never been to, can't recapture what you never had. The chances you miss stay missed forever.
~ Unknown
Ah, oui, pauvre papillon. C'est un de mes prisonniers
~ Paul Scott
But it isn't the best we should remember,' she said, and shocked herself by speaking aloud, and clutched the folds and mother-of-pearl buttons in that habitual gesture. We must remember the worst because the worst is the lives we lead, the best is only our history, and between our history and our lives there is this vast dark plain where the rapt and patient shepherds drive their invisible flocks in expectation of God's forgiveness. *
~ Paul Scott
She said a good day ain't got no rain She said a bad day is when I lie in the bed And I think of things that might have been
~ Paul Simon
she looked a hundred years older, as stale and ruined as yesterday's oatmeal.
~ Paul Theroux
Gringo, she could have made you happy!" "I would have made my wife very unhappy.
~ Paul Theroux
And the day your childhood dies is probably the first day you really know what guilt is.
~ Paul Zindel
They were all too young to die and always would be.
~ Paulette Jiles
I should like to punish myself for having been happy before I met you!
~ Pauline Réage
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
~ Paulo Coelho
I don't regret my painful times, i bare my scars as if they were medals. I know that freedom has a high price, as high as that of slavery; the only difference is that you pay with pleasure and a smile, even when that that smile dimmed by tears
~ Paulo Coelho
One day you will wake up & there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted. Do it now.
~ Paulo Coelho
I could have.What does this phrase mean? At any given moment in our lives, there are certain things that could have heppened but, didn't. The magic moments go unrecognized, and then suddenly, the hand of destiny changes everything.
~ Paulo Coelho
We become imprisoned by our memories, and that makes our lives wretched.
~ Paulo Coelho
Going after a dream has a price. It may mean abandoning our habits, it may make us go through hardships, or it may lead us to disappointment, et cetera. But however costly it may be, it is never as high as the price paid by people who didn't live. Because one day they will look back and hear their own heart say: 'I wasted my life.' " He is not making things any easier. Let's suppose
~ Paulo Coelho