There are two kinds of guilt: the kind thatdrowns you until you’re useless, and the kind that fires your soul to purpose.

Oh God, Oh God! that it were possibleTo undo things done; to call back yesterday!That time could turn up her swift and sandy glass,To untell days, and to redeem these hours.

I never want to regret. ‘Regret’ is the ugliest word.

It’s easy to point out someone else’s mistake, harder to recognize your own. Especially because most people—except the lucky few like ourselves—are forced to live with their mistakes. So they learn to justify their mistakes,...

To be a devil isn’t so bad; to be a devil that can still see beauty, still remember what it was like to be in the sight of the most holy, now that was an...

For the young, there is nothing unattainable; a good thing desired with the whole force of a passionate will, and yet impossible, is to them not credible. Yet, by death, by illness, by poverty, or...

Liam, soon-to-be-fucking-dead, Callahan was walking down the stairs—my fucking stairs—with his sex hair high and his green eyes sharper than razor blades. He was beautiful, and I almost regretted the fact that I would have...

I don’t regret the passing of time. I try to live in the present, which should mean my life’s full.

But now it’s too late.And that’s why, right at this moment, I feel so much hate. Toward myself. I deserve to be on this list. Because if I hadn’t been so afraid of everyone else,...

Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had...

…and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the...

It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.

I don’t do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It’s too late for regrets. You’ve already done it, haven’t you? You’ve lived your life. No point wishing you could change it.

By trying to export myself into a place that didn’t fully exist I asked works of art to bear my expectation that they could be better than life, that they could redeem life. In fact,...

Being safe doesn’t mean you won’t be sorry.

… I have dreams of you too, Mariam jo. I miss you. I miss the sound of your voice, your laughter. I miss reading to you, and all those times we fished together. Do you...

The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.

For this I am truly sorry and regret all that has happened.

This is what I want so don’t be sad.

You loved me as hard as you knew how. I’d give anything to go back and love you better…

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I’ve no regrets.

There are things that money can’t buy, things like fresh youth to replace the one you’ve hardly been aware of, things like lost opportunities which might conceivably have led to nothing, but which on the...

I wouldn’t have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Despite my pain, I felt not the regret of an ending, but the foreboding of a beginning.

The changes we make in life often happen when we have a degree of certainty. However, the pain of our past failures and the fears of our peers often fuel our uncertainty. This inability to...

Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven’t done

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing.

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...