Kahneman’s evidence shows that we suck at remembering and predicting our own well-being. We as a culture still ignore this empirical evidence, recommending to live our lives so as to avoid deathbed regrets. Deathbed regrets...

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must...

There are three things that robots cannot do,” wrote Maxon. Then beneath that on the page he wrote three dots, indented. Beside the first dot he wrote “Show preference without reason (LOVE)” and then “Doubt...

The only victories which leave no regret are those which are gained over ignorance.

I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.

But I think believing that things happen for a reason makes it easier for us to keep going. Dengan menerima kenyataan, kita akan lebih mudah bergerak maju, mengecilkan ruang untuk rasa sesal.

Marry, and you will regret it; don’t marry, you will also regret it; marry or don’t marry, you will regret it either way. Laugh at the world’s foolishness, you will regret it; weep over it,...

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

If only certain things had been preventable, his life would have unfurled in front of him as intended, like a lush Oriental carpet. No surprises, no detours. Just a thick tapestry of days and nights...

To be now a sensible man, by and by a fool, and presently abeast!

He came through the door howling, an axe arched high over his head. His eyes danced in madness, stuck fast on the two of them kissing, caught in their embrace and unaware of him. For...

I would sincerely regret, and which never shall happen whilst I am in office, a military guard around the President.

Go take a shower, you smell like good sex and unnecessary regret.

It wasn’t a sign of weakness to tell what happened to me. I feel guilt no longer, only regret. The other emotions are coming around too. How much further do I need to go? I’m...

I feel her tears every night hitting the hard dusty ground of my dessert heart and making a whooshing noise that echoes through my bones and veins with great anguish. It’s the worst feeling I’ve...

‘None of Your Business.’ It’s the only Salt-N-Pepa song that I regret.

You may have something wise to say, but HOW YOU SAY IT may make it unwise! RECREATE it, else you’ll REGRET it!

Was this what she had shattered convention for; broken with her family, her friends? Everything she had ever known; doomed herself to eternal damnation, for the sake of what she had believed would be heaven...

I was wrong. I regret it, and I apologize,

Enjoy your freedom today, leave the regret for tomorrow.

this is new, but you being an asshole, yep- still there. Oh well.” I took a step back and flicked the door, slamming it. -Trice

As for Ellai, she told her sister what had passed, and Nitid wept, and her tears fell to earth and became chimaera, children of regret…

Hiljadu puta se pokaješ za ono što kažeš, rijetko za ono što prećutiš.

That which I have seen, in that one little moment will never go out from my memory, but will abide there; and I shall see it all the days, and dream of it all the...

Those of us who have seen violent death up close, who have seen what high-powered bullets can do to living human tissue, have a horror of inflicting that nightmarish, never forgotten damage on a fellow...

Only those who vacillate have the possibility to regret. Those who know what they want, they have it easy; if everything goes wrong, they know they did not have a choice.

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Legacy is not what’s left tomorrow when you’re gone. It’s what you give, create, impact and contribute today while you’re here that then happens to live on.

That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary...

There is a time in the life of every boy when he for the first time takes the backward view of life. Perhaps that is the moment when he crosses the line into manhood. The...

Takamasa Saegusa: ‘Seigen, a mere member of the Toudouza, had the effrontery to sully the sacred dueling ground. For that reason, our lord had already decided to subject him to tu-uchi before long. Cut off...

Because any guilt the sizeof a speck of dust, or shame,can crush even the best of men,in mountains of weight

Don’t make me regret this,” I said, breathless.”You haven’t regretted me once.

I tap my pen against the Edith Piaf record, thinking of how to express my future sentiments when my journey comes to an end. Either in the arms of the girl I love, or buried...

we all get waves of regret sometimesbut instead of dwelling on what you can’t change,start focusing on what you can.

One can’t reason away regret-it’s a bit like falling in love, falling into regret.

Regret is good. It proves you have a conscience.

Unanswered? I would’ve answered any question, Hannah. But you never asked.

Gabe’s face flashed into my mind, and I knew that Asher and Gabe had both been right about my feelings. Gabe would do anything to save me, even put his life at risk for mine....

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

There were so many of us who would have to live with things done and things left undone that day. Things that did not go right, things that seemed OK at the time because we...

You can’t regret the life you didn’t lead.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other path, no other way, no day but today.

I am constantly reminded that we are a products of the choices we make

My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.

Life is short, Isobeli. If we gave time to everything sooner or later we’d run out of it. We only have now. And we would be foolish to not seize it while we have it....

We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.

I was so blinded by her talent that I didn’t recognize the tremendous pain behind her work. She gave me hundreds of images, so many chances to see that she was in trouble. I failed...

I wouldn’t underrate the power of regret. It doesn’t feel good… But it’s hard to learn anything important without it.

I don’t buy ‘regret’ idea. I need life’s good lesson.