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Quotes About Regrets

Between life and death there is a library, and within that library, the shelves go on forever. Every book provides a chance to try another life you could have lived. To see how things would be if you had made other choices… Would you have done anything different, if you had the chance to undo your regrets?
~ Matt Haig
Facebook is the literal manifestation of all our regrets, looping and looping, for free, on our computers and phones. People who should be gone and safely out of our lives forever are there again, one cryptic little glimpse at a time, reminding us of all the things we should or shouldn't have done.
~ Matthew Norman
We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.
~ Barbara Kingsolver
How many on their deathbeds wished they'd spent more time at the office—or watching TV? The answer is, No one.
~ Stephen R. Covey
No consultes tus miedos, sino tus esperanzas y tus sueños. No pienses en tus frustraciones, sino en tus potencialidades insatisfechas. Preocúpate no con lo que intentaste y fallaste, sino con lo que todavía es posible que hagas. PAPA JUAN XXIII, RELIGIOSO
~ Steve Allen
Let the past bury its dead.  Easier said than done.
~ Steve Berry
Also, people single out freedom as a component of a meaningful life, whether or not it leads to a happy life.11 Like Frank Sinatra, they may have regrets, they may take blows, but they do it their way.
~ Steven Pinker
Live your life, Love your life, No regrets... Live learn and move forward positivly.
~ C. R. Johnson
Regrets are illuminations come too late.
~ Joseph Campbell
Droll thing life is -- that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself -- that comes too late -- a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
~ Joseph Conrad
Distress that drives us to God does that. It turns us around. It gets us back in the way of salvation. We never regret that kind of pain. But those who let distress drive them away from God are full of regrets, end up on a deathbed of regrets.
~ Eugene H. Peterson
I am not a religious person, nor do I have any regrets.
~ Maurice Sendak
Many people we consider legends, such as Jerry Lee Lewis and Chuck Berry, remain so scarred by scandals, injustices and regrets from decades earlier that they're barely able to appreciate their accomplishments.
~ Neil Strauss
I really wanted to do 'Band Baaja Baraat.' No regrets though, I did its remake in Tamil and felt a little content.
~ Vaani Kapoor
Few things parallel the bonding that occurs post-performance when congratulatory remarks are awarded, regrets are confessed, and gossip is exchanged.
~ Kat Edmonson
I have a collage of pictures of my dad holding my brother and me. I look at that before every game just to remind me about having no fear or regrets and to go out and enjoy the moment, because I know how precious life is.
~ Chris Smalling
You don't get old until you replace dreams with regrets.
~ Troy Dumais
I paid a price for being on game shows and that was not being taken seriously. But so what? I did what I did and I was glad. But it's a strange form of immortality.
~ Orson Bean
All the things that are in the past are in the past.
~ Pablo Sandoval
It is no good telling yourself that one day you will wish you had never made that change; it is no good anticipating regrets. Every tomorrow ought not to resemble every yesterday.
~ Beryl Markham
One of my biggest regrets in coaching was my eighth or ninth game of my career. I was wound up about a conference game in December - I was wound up tight, and we ended up playing really tight. Our players were bickering with the officials, I was bickering... and then all of a sudden we lose.
~ Brad Stevens
If I have any regrets, I could say that I'm sorry I wasn't a better writer or a better singer.
~ Patti Smith
My college life was brief because I started working for my debut film when I was in eleventh standard. But I have no regrets, as I stayed in touch with my friends who keep briefing me about the drama in the college. The opportunity to get into showbiz was so exciting that I couldn't let it pass by.
~ Tamannaah
That's why I made decisions; they were tough decisions but we shouldn't feel bad at all - don't look back with any regrets, that's how I made decisions as governor.
~ Scott McCallum