Top 100 Quotes About Things You Regret
#1. It's not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.
Sarvesh Jain
#2. Sometimes you do things you regret, but there's nothing you can do about them. Times change. Doors close behind you. You move on.
Neil Gaiman
#3. On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
Luis Suarez
#4. As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott
#5. Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.
Shannon L. Alder
#6. The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
#7. In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.
John Connolly
#8. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.
Allison Winn Scotch
#9. Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.
Herman Koch
#10. You need not regret lost years if you have learned great things.
Jack Cady
#11. Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
#12. Don't overthink things. Sometimes you can convince your head not to listen to your heart. Those are the decisions you regret for the rest of your life. Faith Barnett From Texas Tangle
Leah Braemel
#13. If you wake during the night, any thoughts and feelings you might have are from your Chimp and they are often very disturbing, catastrophic and lacking in perspective. In the morning you are likely to regret engaging with these thoughts and feelings because you will see things differently.
Steve Peters
#14. A sense of acquiring more mistakes and regrets the older you get, but also deeper growth in learning from these things. The value of experience.
Brooke Waggoner
#15. I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.
Randy Pausch
#16. And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart.
Ezra Pound
#17. Live your life like the novels that you love to read. Only do the things that when you look back, you are proud of what you accomplished, feel good about how you treated others and didn't regret not doing to trying something. Every day is a new chapter, write something.
Taylor Berke
#18. A guy said to a girl he liked; ' I am scared of loving again'
The girl responded ; ' the only thing that scares me is living a life of regret, in never chasing that things that once took my breath away
Nikki Rowe
#19. What love will make you do
All the things that we accept
Be the things that we regret
Ashanti
#20. I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.
Stephen Malkmus
#21. Evelyn, please, you have no idea how much I regret that day."
"I think I have some idea."
"I have thought every day about you - your loss. And every day, I only saw how I would make things worse if I were here."
"And I only thought of ways you would have made it better.
Tarun Shanker
#22. If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.
Bryan Batt
#23. Never do things that you will regret later.
Kim Tae-yeon
#24. I think if you don't regret a few things, you didn't take enough risks in life.
Lauren Gallagher
#25. I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts ... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .
William Westmoreland
#26. I have made some bad decisions ... and done some things I regret in my life ... but without a doubt ... what I regret the most ... is divorcing you. If you tell me there is hope, that one day you'll be Mrs. Rawlings again, I will wait.
Aleatha Romig
#27. But I am very persistent. I never give up on the things that I want. This ... you and me ... it's inevitable. Theren't no use in fighting, Kami. It's going to happen. And when you are madly in love with me, the only thing you'll regret is not falling sooner.
S.L. Jennings
#28. Robin Sharma: "One of the saddest things in life is to get to the end and look back in regret, knowing that you could have been, done, and had so much more.
Hal Elrod
#29. Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?
Lea Davey
#31. Love does strange things to you sometimes. It can twist you into saying and doing things that you know you'll regret and still, you do them.
C.K. Kelly Martin
#32. In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
Hugh Jackman
#33. Things worth having don't come easy," Woods said. "You have to fight for it until you're tired of fighting, and then you take a breather and fight some more." He squeezed my shoulder. "Don't give up. You'll regret it.
Abbi Glines
#34. When you look to the past, don't sit and dwell on your regrets. Instead, focus on the things you learned from each experience and how they may enrich your future. Use the past not as something to hold you back, but as a method for reaffirming the drive to move forward on your chosen path.
Jack Davenport
#35. Only regret the things you don't do
Nicola May
#36. Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'
Margaret Cho
#37. Non, je ne regrette rien. Because you just can't regret the things you learn from.
Alyson Noel
#38. 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 with the trivial things such as these.
Ellie Rose McKee
#39. I suppose ... in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was ... it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.
John McGahern
#40. You have to imagine your own death. When your time comes, what will you regret not doing? What will you wish you had more time to do, and what will have seemed trivial? Think of what you fear losing - those are the things that matter most.
Jeff Goins
#41. You only regret the things you haven't done !
Ian Simpson
#42. Don't let things go, if you truly don't want them to go, trying again is far better than regret.
Magith Noohukhan
#43. At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.
Robin Roberts
#44. Things don't so much end as disappear. They don't so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.
Rachel Joyce
#45. In the end you regret less the things you believed that weren't true than the things that never came true because you didn't believe.
Robert Breault
#46. When you look at life retrospectively you rarely regret anything that you did, but you might regret things that you didn't do.
Jack Nicholson
#47. Imagination was so powerful that you had to be careful because you could imagine things into existence that you might regret.
Dean Koontz
#48. You will regret many things in life, but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
Brian Tracy
#49. Don't regret tomorrow, the things you should have done today!
P.A.Davies
#50. Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
H. Jackson Brown Jr.
#51. Bunter: "I assure your lordship that for the firsttime in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology."
Wimsey: "I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.
Dorothy L. Sayers
#52. 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
#53. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.
Rose Christo
#54. All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank." He paused, looked kindly at her. "Yes, Father. I understand." "I regret many things I've done," he said, "but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, 'You are my master.
S.D. Smith
#55. Isn't it better to regret things you've done, than regret things you've never even tried?
Inio Asano
#56. In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.
James Sallis
#57. Hansen: I do not look back because I cannot change the past. You should not, either. That is one of the first things you must learn as a hunter - do not regret what you do not have.
Ruby Dixon
#58. Practice the pause. Pause before judging. Pause before assuming. Pause before accusing. Pause whenever you're about to react harshly and you'll avoid doing and saying things you'll later regret.
Lori Deschene
#59. I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.
Christopher Barzak
#60. We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
Steve Maraboli
#61. Then trust me. I think the safest place for me is with you, and I won't regret it. I don't regret anything. The things that we do and the things that happen ... to us," I gulped and pushed down memories, "make us who we are.
Shelly Crane
#62. The only thing worse than regretting the things you've done is regretting the things you didn't do.
Samantha Leahy
#63. It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.
Winifred Holtby
#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. Letting someone control your life for you and decide what you will be is a sure way of creating things to regret on the day of reckoning.
Innocent Mwatsikesimbe
#66. He tilted my head up with his index finger. Tingles spread on my skin. Pain, obstacles, betrayal and all shitty things that happen in life shape everyone, just as much as good things do. Don't regret anything if in the end you can say you're an amazing woman.
Stephanie Witter
#67. People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.
Katy Perry
#68. Of course, that was probably a problem with being an Evil Overlord. You didn't regret the right things.
Holly Black
#69. Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.
Mary Downing Hahn
#70. You should never regret the things that make you happy.
Komal Kant
#71. At the end of our lives, we mostly regret the risks we didn't take, the dreams we didn't do and the love we failed to give. If those things are going to be important to you at the end, make them important to you right now.
Robin S. Sharma
#72. It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!
Agnetha Faltskog
#73. All we have is now, this moment. If you live in the future, you'll miss things, right here, right now, and you'll regret it later.
Jessica Therrien
#74. All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.
Mike Singletary
#75. I had a dream that I saw shooting stars with you. Two things that will come close to never happening: Seeing shooting stars, and being with you.
Karen Quan
#76. Life is short, break the rules, forgive quickly, kiss slowly, love truly, laugh uncontrollably, and never regret anything that made you smile. Twenty years from now, you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did.
Mark Twain
#77. I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
Patrick Stump
#78. There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.
Suzi Quatro
#79. Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.
Lori Lansens
#80. Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.
Robin Williams
#81. Do you know what the worst part of losing him is? The regret -- that he left before we could somehow find each other again. And now all I think about are the things I wish I'd told him before he died.
Frances Norris
#82. I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.
Jojo Moyes
#83. 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
#84. Never try to hide the real you. Be yourself and stand up for what you believe in. Question what other people tell you, think things though. Never regret your mistakes as there's a reason for everything.Grudges are toxic and heavy to bear. Let them go, learn from everything and continue to grow.
Karen Gibbs
#85. Do you still believe that if you truly want something enough it can happen? I ask. I think of all the times I wanted to stop the world from spinning, all the times I wanted to go back and start over again. All the things I've wanted to undo or take back. Did I not want them enough?
Carrie Ryan
#86. Do you want to know what I most regret about my youth? That I didn't dream more boldly and demand of myself more impossible things; for all one does in maturity is to carve in granite or porphyry the soap bubble one blew in youth! Oh to have dreamed harder!
Lewis Mumford
#87. As with any things, regret itself is not the problem, it's what you do with it.
Pearl Zhu
#88. You will have more regrets for the things you didn't try than the ones you tried and didn't succeed at.
Jay Samit
#89. Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.
Neige
#90. No matter how you stack me. No matter how you arrange me. No matter how you look at me. I am still here and i am still the same person made of the same things. I regret nothing.
Pleasefindthis
#91. My part had three lines. I said, 'You look wonderful, sir,' three times. All my friends said, 'Do not take that role - and do not understudy. You'll regret it the rest of your life.' I did both of those things, and I've never regretted it once.
Jeffrey Tambor
#92. At the end of your life, your greatest regret won't be the things you did but wish you hadn't. Your greatest regret will be the things you didn't do but wish you had.
Mark Batterson
#93. Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#94. You learn from things that you experience in life. I'd never want to say that I regret anything or that anything was a mistake. Honestly, that isn't how I have chosen to live my life.
Kate Winslet
#95. It's not that I think it was supposed to happen; you just can't dwell and regret the things that do happen. You've got to keep moving forward, keep pushing through everything that's thrown at you. If you don't, you'll be standing in the same spot forever while the world keeps living around you.
Shelly Crane
#96. Life is short and precious and we never know what is around the corner. So you live for now, seize every moment that comes your way and if you're going to look back on your life with regret, it's easier to regret the things that you did do, rather than the things you didn't
Holly Martin
#97. I gave my word," Crispen said stubbornly.
"You said a McCabe never breaks his word."
Ewan shook his head wearily. "I'm beginning
to regret telling you of things a McCabe
doesn't do. Come, let's sit in the hall so you
can tell me of these adventures of yours.
Maya Banks
#98. If I could go back to do some things over, I would in a heartbeat. But that ain't reality. It ain't life. You got to forgive yourself before you can move on. When you forgive yourself the regret gets lighter and lighter and you manage to keep going.
Joe Hart
#99. I should have wished to possess the intellectual equilibrium that characterizes you and permits you to achieve without fail the desired end ... Chance has not favoured me with an equal self-assurance, it is the only regret I have about things of this earth.
Paul Cezanne
#100. You have to be young to be able to do things like that. Now I'm more cautious. I'm proud that I was able to do what I did - psychologically it was a great wall to climb - but sometimes I regret it.
Mathias Rust
