Regret Quotes

The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

Holly Black

My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn't prevent you doing well, and don't regret the things it interferes with. Don't be disabled in spirit as well as physically.

Stephen Hawking

No time for better words, no time to unsay anything.-Til We Have Faces

C.S. Lewis

There was a long hard time when I kept far from me the remembrance of what I had thrown away when I was quite ignorant of its worth.

Charles Dickens

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

Victoria Holt

I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.

Stephen King

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Jodi Picoult

...and yet, though desirous to be gone, she could not quit the mansion-house, or look an adieu to the cottage, with its black, dripping and comfortless veranda, or even notice through the misty glasses the last humble tenements of the village, without a saddened heart. Scenes had passed in Uppercross which made it precious. It stood the record of many sensations of pain, once severe, but now softened; and of some instances of relenting feeling, some breathings of friendship and reconciliation, which could never be looked for again, and which could never cease to be dear. She left it all behind her, all but the recollection that such things had been.

Jane Austen

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

Jodi Picoult

Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.

Henry David Thoreau

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.

Samuel Goldwyn

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 could not see the future. If only we could see the endless string of consequences that result from our smallest actions. But we can't know better until knowing better is useless.

John Green

Any thoughts of guilt, any feelings of regret, had faded. The desert had baked them out.

Stephen King

Happiness is pleasure without regret

Leo Tolstoy

Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets

Kahlil Gibran

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

William Shakespeare

In any weather, at any hour of the day or night, I have been anxious to improve the nick of time, and notch it on my stick too; to stand on the meeting of two eternities, the past and future, which is precisely the present moment; to toe that line.

Henry David Thoreau