Quotes About Regretting

#1. Not truly living in the present moment and later regretting is like closing your eyes when a peacock is dancing, only to want to see it dance once it is gone.-RVM

R.v.m.

#2. It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn't imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else.

Kay Redfield Jamison

#3. I really wish you hadn't said sorry for it. Because apologizing means regretting.

Estelle Maskame

#4. You just gotta love someone with full force, even if it hurts you. Even if you end up regretting it, at least you gave it your all.

Magan Vernon

#5. Part of being of a true existentialist is wanting to be what we make ourselves be by the way we choose to act, as opposed to making excuses for the way we act and regretting it.

Gary Cox

#6. You have nothing to be embarrassed about. Life would be awfully dull if we could look back without regretting at least one affair.

J.D. Robb

#7. At the crossroad in my life, I didn't know which way to go. I just mindlessly choose a random direction... then, after regretting my decision I tried to retrace my steps. However, without even realizing it the sun had already set.

Nobuyuki Fukumoto

#8. I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

Michael Caine

#9. It's never too late to stop regretting. It's never too late to see your present self as the young one and to listen to the person you hope to become.

Hugh Howey

#10. I don't regret one day of breaking that rule. Because it'd mean regretting every moment that I spent with Baylee. And I don't. I just don't. I can't.

Krista Ritchie

#11. I think it's nice to have children. I didn't have many, and while I don't sit around regretting it, I maybe would have liked a couple more. But it wasn't meant to be, and I didn't want it badly enough.

Lulu

#12. You can't change the past and you shouldn't waste energy regretting it or feeling pity for yourself.

Daniel Marques

#13. 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

#14. Whenever you go with the cheaper option, you end up regretting it

Jeff Kinney

#15. Commitment separates those who live their dreams from those who live their lives regretting the opportunities they have squandered.

Bill Russell

#16. I want to say that probably 24 hours after I told CBS that I was stepping down at my 65th birthday, I was already regretting it. And I regretted it every day since.

Walter Cronkite

#17. [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 advantages squandered.

Anthony Bourdain

#18. There's a house across the river, but alas, I cannot swim
I'll live my life regretting that I never jumped in

Laura Marling

#19. There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

P.D. James

#20. The idea of regretting not doing this seemed insane to me. Sitting in the corner at a bar at age 60, saying: 'I could've been Bond. Buy me a drink.' That's the saddest place I could be. At least now at 60 I can say: 'I was Bond. Now buy me a drink.'

Daniel Craig

#21. I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.

Henry David Thoreau

#22. Heredity. It's like going to a fortune-teller and regretting it. As human beings, we tend not to like things we can't avoid. Death, for instance.

Jo Nesbo

#23. Good Lord, I'm regretting this now," I muttered. "I have never - ever - smelled BO this bad in my life. And I once had s'mores wit a Sasquatch."
"Hang out with him for awhile," Mort gasped. "Eventually it's not so bad."
"Wow. Really?"
"No. Not really.

Jim Butcher

#24. In 'Straight Talking,' I had bared my soul, and the press attention had been overwhelming. There were times when I felt scared and vulnerable, regretting the articles I had written to publicize the book, regretting I had opened my life up for all to see.

Jane Green

#25. Mogget's voice. Sam whirled around. "Mogget? Is that you? Where are you?" "Here, and regretting it as per usual," replied Mogget, and a small white cat sauntered out from behind a fern tree.

Garth Nix

#26. Self-confidence is not pride. Just the contrary: only a person or a nation that is self-confident, in the best sense of the word, is capable of listening to others, accepting them as equals, forgiving its enemies and regretting its own guilt.

Vaclav Havel

#27. I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?

Sarah Ferguson

#28. I started with the firm conviction that when I came to the end, I wanted to be regretting the things that I had done, not the things I hadn't.

Michael Caine

#29. In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.

Rory McIlroy

#30. You have a way of turning the established order on its head." Instantly regretting that, he forced his face to relax; Lynx must not see anger in his eyes.

Gwynn White

#31. Living in the present moment or commonly know as Mindfulness is being aware and conscious of your surroundings. From awareness, we evolve into the moment rather than regretting the past or fearing the future. It leads to full consciousness, even intuition.

Suresh Devnani

#32. Hearing those words, I instinctively turn to my new keeper, regretting it, because for only the third time in my entire existence, tears are streaming down my cheeks.

Giselle Simlett

#33. RVM Thoughts for Today -
If only I had spent my life Smiling and Laughing rather than regretting and cursing , I would have been much Happier.

R.v.m.

#34. Life is too precious to waste any of it regretting the past.

Gordon Savage

#35. Better ten days of love than years of regretting,

Robert Jordan

#36. I have always regretted instances in which I failed to live up to the highest standards of conduct or principles of compassion that I cherish and teach. Being human, I anticipate regretting future failures.

K. Lee Lerner

#37. Instead of regretting what we cannot do, it is better to do anything we can do. Even if what we do does not bring us to our goal, it brings us much closer to it.

CLAMP

#38. The rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon.

Benjamin Franklin

#39. True penance consists in regretting without ceasing the faults of the past, and in firmly resolving to never again commit that which is so deplorable.

Bernard Of Clairvaux

#40. There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.

Muriel Wace

#41. When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly.

Lysa TerKeurst

#42. I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

Brittany Finamore

#43. Love is ... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona?

Ma-Roo

#44. Take the risk that you'll end up regretting your speech, because it's better than regretting your silence.

Brian Morton

#45. I'm taking a philosophy class and regretting it with everything in me. I'm taking one college class per semester. Philosophy is studying what you already know and dismantling it. I thought it would be right up my alley. I can't tell you how much it's not me.

Helen Hunt

#46. What have you done? (Apollymi)
Mulling mostly coupled with a shot or two of reminiscing and a drop of regretting a few past decisions. Some might even call it moping, but I'd kill anyone so stupid as to suggest that of me. (Stryker)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#47. No amount of regretting can change the past, and no amount of worrying can change the future.

Roy T. Bennett

#48. Life is definitely about taking chances, living every minute with zeal, and then laying back and regretting nothing.

Quadidra S. Williams

#49. We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

Ella Wheeler Wilcox

#50. If he is satisfied with only regretting me, when he might have obtained my affections and hand, I shall soon cease to regret him at all.

Jane Austen

#51. No one dies from loneliness, but I really hope you would die alone. Regretting every moment of your life for letting me go

Mohamed Ghazi

#52. The poet Li Qing-jao knew the pain of regretting words that have already fallen from our lips and can never be called back. But she was wise enough to remember that even though those words are gone, there are still new words waiting to be said, like the pear blossoms.

Anonymous

#53. What do I have left after running away from believing? I've come to think that even if I believe in people and get hurt it is much better than regretting not doing so.

Hotaru Odagiri

#54. I have found that the only consolation is never regretting anything that you do. Never look back, always look forward and continue moving along with a confidence that everything you're doing and everything you've done is the way it's supposed to be.

Randolph J. Rogers

#55. Maybe I was being naive. Even stupid. I mean, who would trade Standford for being homeless? [ ... ] But I had to know if I was meant to be a musician. Otherwise I'd spend the rest of my life regretting it. Asking myself ... what if?

Tara Kelly

#56. people are here to do reckless things, stupid things they might later regret, though the point of it all is in not regretting. For the idea of the party is youth.

Lucy Foley

#57. Some might call it manipulation, but I like to consider it simply using what God gave me. And the word manipulation is so ugly. It's what people say to disavow their own choices. If they end up never regretting their decision, does that mean that no one has manipulated them?

M.E. Thomas

#58. You don't need to go back in time to be awesome; you just have to start right now. Regretting that you didn't start earlier is a great distraction from moving on your dream today, and the reality is that today is earlier than tomorrow.

Jon Acuff

#59. Gratitude unleashes the freedom to live content in the moment, rather than being anxious about the future or regretting the past. ELLEN VAUGHN1

Nancy Leigh DeMoss

#60. Some things you did were worth regretting; others not.

Richard Yates

#61. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.

Samantha Leahy

#62. You create your luck by being healthy and not regretting the past or being anxious about the future.

James Altucher

#63. They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

Martin Amis

#64. In real life, people end up doing things because it's convenient and it works for them. You don't get up every day regretting what you're doing.

Mike Colter

#65. Any-way, I guess my point, babe, is that it doesn't matter all that much about your first time. There's no point regretting what you can't change.

R.J. Lewis

#66. We all have regrets,' Leo said, taking a sip of brandy, letting the velvet fire slide down his throat. 'It's why I cling to my bad habits. One doesn't have to start regretting something unless one stops doing it.

Lisa Kleypas

#67. She had been lonely, the kiss hadn't meant anything, and he was clearly regretting it. How many mistakes did that sentence encapsulate in the history of relationships?

Thea Harrison

#68. When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.

E.W. Howe

#69. Some clever children don't discover how bright they are until after they've left school,' continued Mr Holcombe, 'and then spend the rest of their lives regretting the wasted years.

Jeffrey Archer

#70. You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud.

Cara Delevingne

#71. I prefer buying things and figuring out where to put them later than regretting not buying them.

Christian Louboutin

#72. To me, it's always interesting to see what people end up regretting, as a way maybe to avoid such regrets in your own life.

Robin Marantz Henig

#73. Never leave yourself open to regret Grace. We can only make a decision when we know the choices we are faced with. If we shy away, turn our backs and hide, we will simply never know. And that is when you end up old and wondering and regretting. Live a life of hope. Don't live a life of regret.

Hazel Gaynor

#74. Learn why the world wags and what wags it. That is the only thing which the mind can never exhaust, never alienate, never be tortured by, never fear or distrust, and never dream of regretting. Learning is the thing for you.

T.H. White

#75. Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.

Mason Cooley

#76. face a little hardship rather than years of regretting.

Peter Gray

#77. Decisions are never made in retrospect, hence there is no point regretting them, ever.

David Darson

#78. When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands.

Sebastian Vettel

#79. Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Elin Hilderbrand

#80. Again, speaking for the sisterhood, if you gave all that devotion and loyalty to a woman and she was a good woman, I swear, honey, you will live every day for the rest of your life until your dying breath never regretting it.

Kristen Ashley

#81. If you are crying fight against it! If you are regretting walk forward! Only complaining about your misfortune, you're nothing but a common pig!

Yana Toboso

#82. After all, the past wasn't something that could be changed by fretting. Or by regretting

Suzanne Brockmann

#83. I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.

Virgil Thomson

#84. I'm sorry you don't want to know me anymore. I will spend the rest of my life regretting the fact that I wasted my second chance to know you. And I will always be conscious of your absence.- Gabriel to Julia.

Sylvain Reynard

#85. I don't spend much time regretting the past, once I've taken my lesson from it. I don't dwell on it.

Charlie Munger

#86. God is the God of 'right now.' He doesn't want you sitting around regretting yesterday. Nor does He want you wringing your hands and worrying about the future. He wants you focusing on what He is saying to you and putting in front of you ... right now.

Priscilla Shirer

#87. Most of us fear reaching the end of our life regretting moments when we didn't speak up, say I love you, or say I'm sorry.

Taylor Swift

#88. Then it's just day by day. And most days are beautiful, Don. It's regretting yesterday or overthinking tomorrow, that's when ugliness comes in, right?

Dean Bakopoulos

#89. Shall we go?' he murmured, perhaps regretting his decision to show me his army of plastic cartoon figurines.

Jon Ronson

#90. Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.

F Scott Fitzgerald

#91. Stop regretting relationships that once brought you great joy.

Joseph Simmons

#92. The time to be upset is during the race, when you can actually do something about it. Nothing could be done now. A thousand times I'd told them: the key to racing is to come off the water regretting nothing.

Brad Alan Lewis

#93. All this is a natural part of the aging process, in which you find yourself with less to do and more opportunities to eat your guts out regretting everything you have done.

Richard Ford

#94. Of all earthly creatures, humans alone have the power to choose. One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past nor in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.

Anatole France

#95. We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.

Gay Hendricks

#96. Each minute we spend worrying about the future and regretting the past is a minute we miss in our appointment with life- a missed opportunity to engage life and to see that each moment gives us the chance to change for the better, to experience peace and joy.

Thich Nhat Hanh

#97. Heden chose to shut up. He could not remember ever regretting silence.

Matthew Colville

#98. There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said.

Robbie Williams

#99. If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed.

Jon Foreman

#100. Over all life is what it is and regretting is a pointless thing.

Rick Springfield