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Quotes About Regrets

That powers my desire to write: the sense of how quickly everything on the surface of life can be cut away and you can suddenly be inside the most inner part of the most inner life of a person. What does it feel like there, and what are the regrets and sensations and longings, and what is the music of it?
~ Nicole Krauss
youth often understood without having to be taught about seizing the joy of the moment, about not thinking too much of tomorrow and the worries and concerns it would bring, or too much about yesterday, with all its regrets and guilt.
~ Raymond E. Feist
Although a good God regrets our suffering, his greatest concern is surely that each of us shall show patience, sympathy and generosity and, thereby, form a holy character. Some people badly need to be ill for their own sake, and some people badly need to be ill to provide important choices for others.
~ Richard Dawkins
He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf. But
~ Richard Flanagan
He had avoided what he regarded as some obvious errors of life, such as politics and golf.
~ Richard Flanagan
Timid young artists, adding parental fears to their own, often give up their sunny dreams of artistic careers, settling into the twilight world of could-have-beens and regrets.
~ Julia Cameron
every relationship contains within it the ghosts, or the shadows, of all the other relationships it isn't. All the abandoned alternatives, the forgotten choices, the lives you could have led but didn't and haven't.
~ Julian Barnes
J'ai fait mon choix. J'ai pas de regrets.
~ Julie Smith
We must know the measure of a man's desires before we can sound the depth of his regrets.
~ Pearl Mary Teresa Craigie
A man comes to measure his greatness by the regrets, envies and hatreds of his competitors.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
~ Ingrid Bergman
Live with no excuses and love with no regrets.
~ Montel Williams
I'd rather be called immature in those little moments, than be mature and live the rest of my life with those little regrets.
~ Matti Phyre
If this is going to be my last day on earth, I do not want it to be socially awkward.
~ Dean Winchester Supernatural
Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future.
~ Chinmayananda Saraswati
You can always get another job. You'll never get another life.
~ Richie Norton
A conscience without regrets ~ to live life without having to say you're sorry.
~ E.A. Bucchianeri
Every life lived fully is going to have some regrets, because every risk is not worth taking, but you don't always see that in time. Or if you do, you convince yourself that you'll be the one to beat the odds.
~ William Kent Krueger
I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets.
~ Grace Kelly
Without courage we will simply accumulate a collection of good ideas and regrets.
~ Andy Stanley
God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.
~ Ed Koch
I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.
~ Keren Ann
After eight years as President I have only two regrets: that I have not shot Henry Clay or hanged John C. Calhoun.
~ Andrew Jackson
The more we devote ourselves to the pursuit of holiness and happiness, the less likely we will be on a path to regrets.
~ Dieter F. Uchtdorf