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.

There is one woman I’ve dated I just can’t seem to forget, no matter how much I drink or how many concussions I give myself.

It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now....

That we’d figure it out. That you weren’t alone.” Stab.Twist.He was right. It was just that simple.

There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart....

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can...

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can’t be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Maybe we’re doing something right, … I don’t mean to sound greedy, but my only regret is that a couple of our films had a good shot: ‘The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,’ an...

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

No,” I say. “I didn’t know that,” and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes from living a “what if” life.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Oh no,” I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then “oh no” is apparently that song’s chorus, the words we always return to.

Take the stupidest thing you’ve ever done. At least it’s done. It’s over. It’s gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it’s harder to learn or heal or...

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

…alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life–it was not worth much–not like a life...

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there’s nothing much to regret.

Nothing helps a man to reform like thinking of the past with regret.

Live your life so you don´t have to have any regrets when you throw your 70 year old birthday party

When you have no future, you live in the past.

And maybe one winter it will get too cold and I’ll forget about the summers we once shared. My family portrait mightfold in too, producing the same horrific effect as Jeremy’s: that I, all along,...

Don’t live in a world of ‘I never should have’. Regret is a terrible burden to carry through life. It stoops your shoulders and keeps you looking down at the ground rather than up at...

The sharp light of the stars and moon sliced away her misconceptions and pared down their layers until the feelings that had always existed between them lay bare.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can’t help it.

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

And then the queen wept with all her heart. Not for the cruel and greedy man who had warred and killed and savaged everywhere he could. But for the boy who had somehow turned into...

The night of my accident, when I opened my eyes and you were there? Seeing you again, Rebecca…It was like someone let the air back into the room.

Men didn’t have any idea about regretbefore God felt so once after created us.

That’s why I ended up leaving school – because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed...

Regret and pangs of conscience are feelings we assign to others to make the world seem a little more fair, to even things out a little and provide consolation. In reality, those who do wrong...

She felt the intimate loss of who she was meant to become.