Top 44 Grief Regret Quotes
#1. Grief, regret, pain, and of course anger. Another loss. And when you compare this one loss to the hundreds and maybe thousands that occur people stop thinking they matter. It does matter though. Every loss matters.
Natalie Valdes
#2. Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
Sivananda Saraswati
#3. The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else
grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.
Beverly Cleary
#4. People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.
Alice Hoffman
#6. Sometimes we lose friends for whose loss our regret is greater than our grief, and others for whom our grief is greater than our regret.
Francois De La Rochefoucauld
#7. Diggy wished he could cut sentences out of his head the way he could cut them out of a book, then cut them in half and word by word and letter by letter until they were bits of nothing that drifted from the scissors' edges, gravity not even interested enough to pull them down.
Rebecca Petruck
#8. We must come to grief and regret anyway - and I for one would rather regret the reality than its phantasm, knowledge than hope, the deed than the hesitation, true life and not mere sickly potentialities.
A.S. Byatt
#9. I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.
Kristin Hannah
#10. It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in indulging the excess of grief.
Mary Shelley
#11. I felt like an integral part of my being had just been ripped out of me, only to have it replaced with something that did not belong.
Theresa Smith
#12. I still loved Marc desperately and couldn't imagine life without him. Jace was ... something else. Something I could feel but couldn't articulate. Something I wanted, and hadn't been able to resist in my grief-weakened state. He was something that would have to wait.
Rachel Vincent
#13. She didn't know if she was crying because Illukar was going to die, or because Ieskar already had.
Andrea K. Host
#14. When someone you love dies you pay for the sin of outliving her with a thousand piercing regrets.
Simone De Beauvoir
#15. One is not allowed a grief for a life never lived. Yet one has buried the fruit of love, and a great deal of hope and many dreams.
Abigail McCarthy
#16. Perhaps grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost.
David Nicholls
#18. Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit. I
Edward Abbey
#19. And then I began to drift, fighting tears. I used to come here with Miriam. Miriam, my heart's desire. What was troubling her this morning? Maybe Kate had reproached her on the phone for leaving me? How dare Kate.
Oh yeah? Go for it, my darling. Remind her of what she's missing. No, don't.
Mordecai Richler
#20. Emotionally, grief is a mixture of raw feelings such as sorrow, anguish, anger, regret, longing, fear, and deprivation. Grief may be experienced physically as exhaustion, emptiness, tension, sleeplessness, or loss of appetite.
Judy Tatelbaum
#21. Where there should be remorse, regret, longing, grief, there is, of course, only me. The black hole, the white canvas, the empty room.
Kelsey Sutton
#22. She said once that time is nothing to me but a series of bookmarks that I use to jump back and forth through the text of my life, returning again and again to the events that mark me in the eyes of my more astute colleagues, as bearing all the characteristics of the classic melancholic.
Dennis Lehane
#23. They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I
Kristin Hannah
#24. You can't say you love man as an individual if you have not dealt with the person's complex personality, his or her unfamiliar habits, disturbing impulses and biological makeup.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#25. You know you are getting old when yesterday turns out to be a fading memory you have difficulties recollecting, when today becomes a challenge that is hard to grasp and when tomorrow promises an uncertainty that you dread encountering.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#26. Grief was something you could work through, but regret lived forever, tormenting you with everything you might have done differently.
Kit Rocha
#27. So I pushed the bitterness down, into the black pit of my stomach along with my regret and my grief and my fear, and I said, I'm fine. May i go now?
R. J. Anderson
#28. Nothing crushes the soul of a father more than the loss of the beloved son he failed to lavish his love on.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#29. The radiance of this beautiful scene shed a cruel light on every past horror, every insult tolerated, every unspoken retort, every gesture of rejection. Marianne was grieving, and her boundless grief made her regret every moment of cowardice in her life.
Nina George
#30. Regret isn't like grief; it never lessens, just stays the same. A little hard ball in the pit of your stomach.
M.J. Rose
#31. After an eternity of grief and regret, he held the only thing he'd ever wanted as much as he wanted to be God. A second chance.
Karen Marie Moning
#32. She only had this moment, and she must fulfill it worthily. Of what use was it to allow herself regret and grief, to ponder endlessly what she might have done differently?
Francine Rivers
#33. Unsettling emotions are capable of messing up the most beautiful minds in this world.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#34. Never go for someone that represents something that is more of a fantasy than reality in this crazy world of lonely people, unless it is for the shortest time possible, and unless you have clearly figured out an exit strategy.
Janvier Chouteu-Chando
#35. Grief is as much about regret for what you've never had as sadness for what you've lost.
David Nicholls
#37. grief is as much regret for what we have never had as sorrow for what we have lost. As
David Nicholls
#38. I never even heard her voice."
And after a while:
"It is a strange grief."
Softly:
"To die of nostalgia for something you never lived.
Alesandro Bariko
#39. I knew it in my bones. That this time was it. I had finally made my choice, and so had he. He let me go. I was relieved, which I expected. What I didn't expect was to feel so much grief.
Jenny Han
#40. Have I thought long to see this morning's face,
And doth it give me such a sight as this?
William Shakespeare
#42. Why did I think that this improvisation could never end? If I had seen that it could, what would I have done differently? What would he?
Joan Didion
#43. I was so incredibly nostalgic for a life I knew I'd never, ever have again.
Paige Harbison
#44. O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.
George Eliot
