Save the contrition for the confessional. Regret isn’t worth a damn to anyone.

When you start thinking about what your life was like 10 years ago–and not in general terms, but in highly specific detail–it’s disturbing to realize how certain elements of your being are completely dead. They...

There will be days you wish you’d never done it. And thosewill be the good times, when it’s only days of regret and notmonths.

My biggest regret is that I didn’t teach my two children how to speak Spanish.

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it.

My biggest regret is what I didn’t say… (Jake)

Revenge is a bittersweet fruit that leaves the foul aftertaste of regret.

A crowd of drunken lovers. Newspaper hats, new couples falling from couches and love- seats—the pleasure remembered, never the regret.

Tout ça c’est des regrets qui ne font pas bouillir la marmite.

Man, don’t ever be sorry you don’t want to kill someone.

Don’t be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.

My phone is on my bed, whispering in my ear like a bottle of scotch to a recovering alcoholic, while the rain continues cackling at me through my window

Starting right now, attempt to live as if you have no regrets.

The world changes too fast. You take your eyes off something that’s always been there, and the next minute it’s just a memory.

We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

Could it really be this easy to land a handsome man? If so, why didn’t I try it ages ago?

Even if someone does something that brings bad to you,do something good for them and make them feel shy for what they have done to you

Regret is a self-inflicted emotional scar.

I do not believe in the government of the lash, if any one of you ever expects to whip your children again, I want you to have a photograph taken of yourself when you are...

We spend so much time being afraid of failure, afraid of rejection. But regret is the thing we should fear most.

Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They’re making a mistake.

She needs to make one phone call, and she wishes she could make it into her past. Into last year. Or two years ago.

I hate going back. I’d rather live at the bottom of my river of black, dragged this way and that by the forces that be, than go back there. Those forty-eight hours took twenty years...

I think the beauty looks I most regret are those I was persuaded into.

What I do know is that there are two kinds of pain in this life: risk and regret. I’d rather live with the first than the second.

To become greater in anything you can do, prepare to be a rejecter of everything that you cannot do. Neglect whatever activities that do not contribute to your success and you will never regret the...

To regret your soul is to regret your past.

there is no pain in leaving as in being left behind

‎Every opportunity missed is an opportunity for regret

Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss...

He felt what a murderer must feel, when he sees the body he has robbed of life. That body, robbed by him of life, was their love, the first stage of their love. There was...

So many men and women I have wronged, reduced to ghosts and shades. They surround me, but I can never let them know I regret what I have cost them, both the living and the...

A dead man is the worst enemy alive, I thought. You can’t alter his power over you. You can’t alter what you love or owe. And it’s too late to ask him for his absolution....

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They’re not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There’s just regret.

I had a dream that I saw shooting stars with you. Two things that will come close to never happening: Seeing shooting stars, and being with you.

Faythe…?” The tremor in his voice broke my heart. Then understanding surfaced, and his tear-filled eyes searched mine desperately. “No. No,” he whispered through clenched teeth. “This was not wrong. It’s the only thing I’ve...

Never regret on something you can fix.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don’t know how precious it is until it’s worn out and gone away.

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations — one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it —...

Don’t choose to walk the well-worn path to regret. Be amongst the few who dare to follow their dreams!

what if.” Regret is the result of leaving a story within you still untold, a song inside of you never sung, a touch unique to your personhood that never was felt by another. When you...

Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.

Perhaps. But it is childish to think of what might have been.

Wish I didn’t know now what I didn’t know then.

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

That’s it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane’s Addiction experiment is at an end.

Sorry I painted the word ‘twat’ on your garage door.

Never REJECT yourself due to the sins you have committed. REGRET will do nothing; REPENT and do something!

After that came her biggie: a triple murder–her dealer, the dealer’s sister, and the dealer’s sister’s boyfriend.Reading that made me feel a little funny that we’d fucked and I’d loved her.

If I could go back would I do it differently? Well, I can’t go back.