Quotes About Regrets

Almost universally, when people look back on their lives while on their deathbed [...] they wish they had spent more time with the people and activities they truly loved and less time worrying about aspects of life that, upon deeper examination, really don't matter at all that much. Imagining yourself at your own funeral allows you to look back at your life while you still have the chance to make some important changes.

Many people are driven by guilt. They spend their entire lives running from regrets and hiding their shame. Guilt-driven people are manipulated by memories. They allow their past to control their future. They often unconsciously punish themselves by sabotaging their own success.

Oh, my goodness," said Louisiana. "I'm just all filled up with feathers and regrets. And fears. I have a lot of fears.

We can't cherry-pick the parts of our story we'd like to keep. Our lives are a melting pot of regrets, triumphs, sorrow and joy. You have to accept it all.

Rain caused one to reflect on the shadowed, more poignant parts of life—the inescapable sorrows, the speechless longings, the disappointments, the regrets, the cold miseries. It also allowed one the leisure to ponder questions unasked in the bustle of brighter days; and if one were snug under a sound roof, as Abel was, one felt somehow mothered, though mothers were nowhere around, and absolved of responsibilities.

Long ago, in the infancy of civilization, man learned that there were drugs in Nature, cell products of the growth or transformation of "our brother organisms, the plants," by whose agency pain was turned to pleasure. By the aid of these outside influences he could clear "today of past regrets and future fears," and strike out from the sad "calendar unborn tomorrow and dead yesterday.

At your age, life is full of possibilities. But as the years pass, those possibilities vanish, one by one, like doors closing in a hallway. You feel time slip by, and your energy slip away. One day, you realize you're too old to be a famous musician, or change careers, or have more children. And each of those closed doors represents a regret. As you get older, well, those regrets come to define you.

I have no regrets from my past only pride over how far I have come to be the person I am today and hope that tomorrow I will be even better.

Dreams become regrets when left in the mind, never planted in the soil of action.

You only get one life. Live it to the fullest. All your miseries will be forgiven when you will be dead.

A life full of excuses is a life full of regrets

Don't dwell too long on the past, forgive and let it go. Too many hours have been wasted on old regrets and sorrow.

L'histoire n'est pas seulement celle des réalités concrètes : c'est aussi celle des idées, des sentiments, des regrets et des rêves.

There is no life without regrets. Every important choice has its benefits and its deficits, whether or not people admit it or even recognize the fact: no mother has the radical, lifelong freedom that is essential for my happiness. I will never know the intimacy with, or have the impact on, a child that a mother has. Losses, including the loss of future possibilities, are inevitable in life; nobody has it all.

Has there always been someone like me to bury the bodies, to have regrets, to carry on after everyone else was dead?

But intellect does not inform matters of the heart. Regrets

And death has a cruel way of giving regrets more attention than they deserve. The

I'll tell you something, Vivian. I have no regrets. When I was a young girl, I honestly believed that a life spent in the theater would be nothing but fun. And God help me, kiddo—it was.

Regrets when you're dead? A past when you're dead? Is there never any escaping the junkyard of the self?

Regrets when you're dead? A past when you're dead? Is there never any escaping the junkshop of the self?

All the fears and doubts surrounding her grief and regrets were swept up into the tempest of the music, poising here in the centre of the moment, a clear vessel of joy.

Oh, Topher," Veronica said with even less patience than before. "Only a man would think that regrets were a liability.

But what's going to haunt me more in the future- memories or regrets? I honestly do not know.

Success was one of my weakest points. I was so ill-prepared for it. I never appreciated within myself the gift of success. I never accepted it. People gave me so much momentum and love, and people really got my music, but I didn't accept it. That's probably one of my biggest regrets.