But of, but what, but whether, but who, but nevertheless, but insofar, but why, but otherwise, but even if-

The real regrets in life are the risks you didn’t take.

You may regret for messing up on few occasions, but you need to appreciate the fact that blames don’t clean the mess; they only smear the blame on your face. Make changes!

I’ve got a bad case of the 3:00 am guilts – you know, when you lie in bed awake and replay all those things you didn’t do right? Because, as we all know, nothing solves...

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don’t do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

In twenty years you could say and do a lot you wish you hadn’t. In twenty years you could store up a lot of regrets. And then, when it was too late, when there was...

Don’t be scared,” Willa Mae said.I looked at her. “Aren’t you scared?”Willa Mae looked at me and said, “Shoot. Only thing I’m afraid of is that I’m going to do something I’ll regret.””Being scared is...

And what of regrets? I shall live with them. I shall accept my regrets as part of my life, to be numbered among my self-inflicted wounds. But I will not endlessly gaze at them. I...

You don’t have to have had something to want it or need it but when you have something you liked… very much… and it is taken away, and you want it back, it can become...

I don’t pretend to know much about love, but that’s how great love comes to an end, not in the flames of passion, but in the silence of regret.

He took her hand without question, without fear, and he never regretted it.

I don’t dwell in the past, I just can’t forget what’s passed.

Don’t let yesterday take up too much of today.

I have no tattoos that I regret – I have had some that I have had changed according to how my life was.

Never believe you’re so great or important, so right or proud, that you cannot kneel at the feet of someone you hurt and offer a humble, sincere apology.

Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.

They send a person who can never stay,” she whispered. “Who can never accept my offer of companionship for more than a little while. They send me a hero I can’t help … just the...

Both she and I have grief enough and trouble enough, but as for regrets – neither of us have any.

It’s important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. That...

There is one day that has brought me unspeakable pain, & the effects of that day continue to cover & erode my world like rust. I suspect that someday the rust will eat through the...

If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.

I can just close my eyes and let myself fall into oblivion. Maybe I’ll hit the exact same rocks and my blood will mingle with his and maybe there’s some kind of life after death...

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say “yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

I have no regrets. Just original grets.

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on...

I hate New Year’s Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven’t yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn’t matter.

I was wrong about you. I was wrong about a great many things.

There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.

I’ll always regret that I left when I left.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. … The losses piled up.

The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and...

I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won’t deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand...

Don’t live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in ‘Top Gun’ and I turned it down.

This is a cost straight to our bottom line. We regret the impact on customers’ bills.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

I spent the past two years fearing the worst, that I chose safe arms to hold me when his arms weren’t the arms I longed to be in, nor were they really safe. I thought...

The fools will forever pay the wise for the things that takes only wisdom to do successfully.

I couldn’t understand how boldness and sorrow, how you’re so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly bound together. Nor could I begin to fathom how someone so seemingly vulnerable,...

Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt…and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up!...

I do think it’s important to live in the present because in that way you won’t be living in a state of regret.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.