I am forever grateful for not knowing—What would have been. WHAT WILL BE holds none of those bittersweet pangs and it is lit w joy.

Plain speaking is necessary in any discussion of religion, for if the freethinker attacks the religious dogmas with hesitation, the orthodox believer assumes that it is with regret that the freethinker would remove the crutch...

Let’s live to regret this” (Martin Riggs [Mel Gibson] to Lorna Cole [Rene Russo] in Lethal Weapon 3)

Chasidah. Angel. Gabriel has lost his words. They have all fled, shamed to be in his company. He’s left now with only a few, simple ones. They are inadequate. They cannot begin to convey all...

You know,” she murmured, “we’re all heading straight to hell.””Yes,” said Masako, giving her a bleak look. “It’s like riding downhill with no brakes.””You mean, there’s no way to stop?” “No, you stop all right...

Speech one may regret,Silence no sorrow begets,Humility be born before honour,Soft answer turns wrath’s corner

Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.

If I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?

I’ll go from world to world until I find a time and place where you can come awake in safety. And I’ll tell your story to my people, so that perhaps in time the can...

Because the one who wishes it – isn’t the one who, still untouched by the future, stands at the crossroads. Instead, it is the one marked by the future become past who wants to go...

Instead of blaming yourself for something you cannot undo, let it define you.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

The only thing I regret is not returning earlier.

Ah, you dumb sonovabitch, why’d you let your warrior go?

Regret; The saddest word in the English language.

There is nothing for you to go back and live over, or fix, or feel regret about now. every part of your life has unfolded just right. And so -now- knowing all that you know...

The problem with living without the person you can’t live without is eventually realizing you can live without them.

You say she’s mine…but honestly, I don’t think she was ever mine to begin with.

A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement – yet it had been the truth.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again… But don’t you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet…?

It was really over, I thought. There was no way to go back, to make it stay. There was never that.

Every damn fool thing you do in this life you pay for.

I don’t regret any of the musical decisions I have made.

You see it everywhere and everyone seems to be doing it but you. You could have had it as well, and you know it, and that’s what bothers you. Your worst enemy is yourself, and...

I need just be a bayonet, a bayonet named Diving Punishment. I wish I’d been born a storm. Or a menace. Or a single grenade. No heart, no tears, just as a terrible gale’d have...

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around.

It is foolish to regret anything form one’s past.

I live completely without regret. Sure there are plenty of things that someone could second guess, but I see the path of life like driving down the road without a map. The thing is, some...

Regret is more than inevitable, it’s a constant companion. A relationship that becomes comfortable. Regret never wants to break up.

In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In Adrian’s terms, I gave up on life, gave up on...

I am falling to the floor crying,” but there’s an element of the ridiculous to it — you knew it would happen and, even worse, while you’re on the floor crying you look at the...

I don’t so much mind looking back on having lost the election, or having been denied a role in the play, or having had my novel repeatedly rejected, or having been turned down for a...

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,Children dying in the roadCrawling things hooked and baited,Rapists bound and then castrated,Villains singed in public square.Yet none these sights did make me cringeLike when my Love cut all her...

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.

Fear waters the weeds of regret.

Until I met you,” she said, “I never realized how precious each day could be. When I was working, each day was over before I knew it, and then a week just flew by, and...

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

Don’t ever regret your good deeds even when its abused. Don’t lose heart you will be vindicated and obtain favor with God and man.

I could kill you a thousand times over Abraham, but we would never be even. You took everything I had.

I just wish I’d asked you sooner. We could’ve had ages . . . months . . . years maybe. . . .

There’s no such thing as yesterday, he thought dully. Memory is just today, happening over and over again, stamped indelibly with regret.

I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

No pain is unbearable except that of regret.

I want to undo this. To make it right. But I have no idea how. I don’t seem to know how to open up to people without getting the door slammed in my face. So...

On dit que la chance ne passe qu’une fois à votre portée, qu’il faut la saisir à son tour. Après c’est fini. Elle est partie ailleurs et ne reviendra plus. Seuls les amnésiques n’ont pas...

If you aren’t in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.

Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can’t but back with them what you most desire.

Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.

You’ve turned out good.You’ve made me proud, Markos.I am fifty-five years old. I have waited all my life to hear those words. Is it too late now for this? For us? Have we squandered too...