Quotes About Regrets

We have had the opportunity to learn from the misjudgments of others, and we have been imbued with determination to use our time wisely, to cause as little pain as possible to others, to pay attention, to live and love with few regrets.

Most of the gaffes I've made have not been funny - they've been stupid.

The memories of our glories fade, and rot away into half-arsed anecdotes, thin and unconvincing as some other bastard's lies. The failures, the disappointments, the regrets, they stay raw as the moments they happened.

The sexual revolution of the 1960s to 1980s changed women's sexual behavior more than men's yet it is women not men who report regrets and doubts about the increased permissiveness it brought.

When an atmosphere grows thick enough with justifications, explanations, rationalizations, postures, and regrets, not to omit occasional hostilities, untruth disappears just as surely as truth does.

Our eyes are full of terrible confessions.

Ch 3: How ungenerously in later life we disclaim the virtuous moods of our youth, living in retrospect long summer days of unreflecting dissipation. There is no candor in the story of early manhood which leaves out of account the homesickness for nursery morality. The regrets and resolutions of amendments, the black hours which, like zero on the roulette table, turn up with roughly calculable regularity.

Ninguna cantidad de fuego o frescura puede desafiar lo que un hombre puede almacenar en los fantasmas de su corazón.

The restless anguish of regrets, The weariness caused by so much futility, The surfeit even of imagined things

Regrets are useless, " the Fool replied. "All you can do is start from where you are.

Oh, the things we discover and the things we learn, much too late. Worse are the secrets that are not secrets, the sorrows we live with but do not admit to one another.

Jek is too busy living. She won't waste time on regrets.

No regrets, Wolf Father chided me. There is no going back to do a thing or not do a thing. There is only today. Today you must resolve to live. Each time you are given a choice, you must do the thing that will keep you alive and unhurt. Regrets are useless.

It has been said that marriages are arranged by Heaven, that destiny will bring even the most distantly separated people together, that all is settled before birth, and no matter how much we wander from our paths, no matter how our fortunes change—for good or bad—all we can do is accomplish the decree of fate. This, in the end, is our blessing and our heartbreak. Regrets

Most of us don't live in the present tense. We dwell in a mental place where our regrets and grudges from our past compete with our fears about the future. Sometimes we barely notice what's going on around us, we're so busy time traveling.

Unless you have a life of great importance, she said, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.

Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.

The things a man will wish for are harder to leave behind than all his wants...

I could have been a great many things.

only don't go to the other extreme and delve like slaves. Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.

Very good! Then I am quite satisfied with the experiment, and fancy that we shall not have to repeat it, only don't go to the other extreme and delve like slaves. Have regular hours for work and play, make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life become a beautiful success, in spite of poverty.

Take and chance and don't ever look back. Never have regrets, just lessons learned.

When you died, of course, these wrong opinions were all there was left

But I'd rather not add to my regrets. The gods know I got a queue of the bastards.