Each year’s regrets are envelopes in which messages of hope are found for the New Year.

We all have had our ups and downs. But the funny thing about regret is that, we all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. Some people allow themselves to be...

At the crossroad in my life, I didn’t know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction… then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing...

Having regrets is proof of being alive.

Some thoughts should never be conceived. Some questions should never be asked, because they have no answer, and the questions themselves serve only to haunt with grinding guilt and second guessing.

In times like these I always cheered myself up with a certain story. I forgot just when I first heard it, or who I heard it from… but, back when I was young it would...

The tragedy of Dionysus: Wear a black robe at night, and white you’ll wear by morning; but wear a purple robe to the midnight feast, and when you wake you’ll dress in black to mourn...

Its better to regrets what you did, than regret what you didn’t do.

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know...

The problem with living without the person you can’t live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

You say she’s mine…but honestly, I don’t think she was ever mine to begin with.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement – yet it had been the truth.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again… But don’t you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet…?

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

I don’t regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that’s what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and...

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I’d been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale’d have...

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around.

It is foolish to regret anything form one’s past.

I live completely without regret. Sure there are plenty of things that someone could second guess, but I see the path of life like driving down the road without a map. The thing is, some...

Regret is more than inevitable, it’s a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian’s terms, I gave up on life, gave up on...

I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the...

I don’t so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a...

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

Fear waters the weeds of regret.

Until I met you,” she said, “I never realized how precious each day could be. When I was working, each day was over before I knew it, and then a week just flew by, and...

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

Don’t ever regret your good deeds even when its abused. Don’t lose heart you will be vindicated and obtain favor with God and man.

I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

No pain is unbearable except that of regret.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don’t seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So...

On dit que la chance ne passe qu’une fois à votre portée, qu’il faut la saisir à son tour. Après c’est fini. Elle est partie ailleurs et ne reviendra plus. Seuls les amnésiques n’ont pas...

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can’t but back with them what you most desire.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

You’ve turned out good.You’ve made me proud, Markos.I am fifty-five years old. I have waited all my life to hear those words. Is it too late now for this? For us? Have we squandered too...

The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife’s feelings and deprive his...

We believe that the vote would have been close. We regret that in the face of an explicit threat to veto by a permanent member, the vote-counting became a secondary consideration.

I have learned that I should be careful with the words I choose to say when I am angry because later, those words always leave a huge wound of regrets in my heart besides hurting...

Maybe I could use a little metal on the inside, I thought. If I’d kept my heart better armored, where would I be now?Easy—I’d be at home, medicating myself into a monotone. Drowning my sorrows...

Banyak orang yang berharap dapat memutar kembali waktu karena penyesalan, sampai hanya itu yang tinggal di benak mereka. Sampai penyesalan menggerogoti jiwa mereka, sampai lama-kelamaan mereka mati bersamanya. Penyesalan, sama seperti hidup, sama seperti kenangan,...

Most people’s greatest regret is not living the life they knew they could live.

Never let the little things, disrupt the biggest things you cherish in life. The smallest mistake, can cause the biggest regret and hurt to your closest companion.