Regret & Remorse Quotes

The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing.

David Viscott

A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.

G. K. Chesterton

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

Ogden Nash

Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.

Max L. Lucado

Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.

Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences

Remorse is the pain of sin.

Theodore Parker

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

Arthur Miller

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

Arthur Brisbane

The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.

Joe Karbo

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'

John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud M

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson

People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.

Bob Dylan

People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.

Barbara Sher

We rarely repent of having eaten too little.

Thomas Jefferson

A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Barrymore

I have loved badly, loved the greatToo soon, withdrawn my words too late;And eaten in an echoing hallAlone and from a chipped plateThe words that I withdrew too late.

Edna St. Vincent Millay

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.

George Moore

If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.

Henny Youngman

Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.

H. L. Mencken

It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

Oscar Levant