71 quotes found
“Don't make someone burn, and then try to douse the flames with the things you should have done. Those regrets are gasoline not water.”
“On my solemn oath, Edmund, I'd gladly face not having an acre of land to call my own, nor a penny in the bank, I'd be willing to have no home but the poorhouse in my old age, if I could look back n...”
“Regrets will eat a man up. My pa told me that. Said you should always try to make your peace when you can, 'cause no man knows what the Lord has in store for us tomorrow.”
“Regrets are particularly poignant for the old, those of us who have used up most of the chances we'll ever get and are left to make peace with our failed choices. Most things distance themselves wi...”
“It's amazing how, over the course of one's life, you collect so much music you don't like, so many movies you don't watch and so many books you have no intention of reading. If only regret stopped ...”
“The only thing equal to the enormity of his want was his regret.”
“As much as he loathed himself for it, he couldn't stop thinking about Abigail. If he hadn't met her, he might be married to someone else. Some nice woman who didn't throw dishes at him. He'd be asl...”
“I will tell you this my darlings, the very worst regrets are the things you couldn't have handled any other way.”
“How strange that something so simple could have been instrumental in my decision to ruin one of my most relationships and friendships, and damage another.”
“[When I die], I will decidedly not be regretting missed opportunities for a good time. My regrets will be more along the lines of a sad list of people hurt, people let down, assets wasted and advan...”
“Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.”
“Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.”
“Ive found the things Ive regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And Im beginning to think I dont want you to become one of my what-if-Id-only-trie...”
“When I leave her, I will have few regrets. But those that I have, are magnificent.”
“I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.”
“Very frequently feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life and how we ought to have done it ...”
“The only causes of regret are laziness outbursts of temper hurting others prejudice jealousy and envy.”
“If you have behaved badly repent make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the bes...”
“Nobody gets to live life backward. Look ahead that is where your future lies.”
“Regret is an appalling waste of energy you can't build on it it is good only for wallowing.”
