Top 100 Regrets Of Life Quotes
#1. One of the biggest regrets of life, I think, is a sense of having gone on the trip but missed the adventure.
Gary Haugen
#2. Later, Xander said, "It's not about you, you know. What Mimi hates is how her life has turned out. It isn't how she thought it would be back when she was your age and on the top of the world.
Julia Claiborne Johnson
#3. The man who seeks one thing in life, and but one May hope to achieve it before life be done. But he who seeks all things wherever he goes Only reaps from the hopes which around him he sows A harvest of barren regrets.
Robert Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Earl Of Lytton
#4. Sometimes people walk out of your life never to return, and all you have left are bitter memories and what ifs. And though you try to move on and forget them, they become regrets that cut deeper than the sharpest knife, slashing you over and over again.
Mia Asher
#5. A life strategy of minimizing regrets only winds up guaranteeing you suffer the maximum.
Steve Toltz
#6. I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.
David Souter
#7. It is not the jumps you made in your life but mostly the jumps you haven't made are the real source of regrets in your life!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#8. This world
that was our home
for a brief spell
never brought us anything
but pain and grief;
its a shame that not one of our problems
was ever solved.
We depart
with a thousand regrets
in our hearts.
Omar Khayyam
#9. Cut away the nonsense, the drama, the regret, the scars of the past, and make a decision to no longer let them govern your happiness and freedom.
Steve Maraboli
#10. Ten years of misery, regrets, and torture.
I refuse to allow another year to pass by.
It's time to reclaim my life and fight for what I want.
A.M. Willard
#11. Nothing has a stronger influence psychologically on their environment and especially on their children than the unlived life of the parent.
C. G. Jung
#12. I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.
Annabella Sciorra
#13. Droll thing life is
that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself
that comes too late
a crop of inextinguishable regrets.
Joseph Conrad
#14. I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets
the seventeen who got away.
Edward Abbey
#15. I believe that we should, on biblical grounds, tell all parents of mentally disabled children that God loves their children, regrets terribly that they are disabled, and will, when they die, carry them gently into a heavenly life where every person is forever whole.
Lewis B. Smedes
#16. If the thing you want beyond anything cannot be, it is much better to recognize it and go forward, instead of dwelling on one's regrets and hopes.
Agatha Christie
#17. You don't wanna go out of this world with regrets. If there's some-
thing you want to do, you do it. You take this life by the balls and you tell it that you existed.
Tommy Wallach
#18. I have many regrets, many bad things I must take credit for, but believe me when I say that the negative impact that all of my actions have had on your life is my biggest one.
R.K. Lilley
#19. Life is a balance of hanging on and letting go.In the moment, shut down the mind and let intuition give you the answer. Have no regrets.
Matthew Donnelly
#20. To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps
To some reader a latticework of regrets ...
John Ashbery
#21. I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.
David Talbot
#22. Day by day we increase in age. Step by step we reduce the number of our steps. When you grow old, you shall see life differently and you shall get a better understanding of the journey of life: how you lived it and how you should have lived it!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#23. If I have learned one thing in my life, it is that lamentation and regrets only make things worse. A person must move on, move forward but never forget the past, but learn from it. If you ponder the 'if onlys' of life, they will drive you mad.
Lorraine Heath
#24. It takes just a step to show the other side of you that you never wanted to show. It takes just a word to start the words you never wanted to say. It all begins with something and it all starts somewhere. Mind the starting point and note the beginning.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#25. If you get to the end of your life and you have regrets that you could have done better, then you blew it.
Francis Slakey
#26. May the life you lead be a good one, a life free of regrets.
Haruki Murakami
#27. They that fail to understand their dreams, visions and aspirations in life and the real steps to take to make dreams a reality shall always have realities of life teaching them the had I knows of life.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#28. When the situation demands action, know the end of the action before you start the action
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#29. Yet if I was asked to do this again - in fact, if I was ever asked to repeat any of my experiences - I'd have to say, fuck it, bring them on. I've no regrets.
This is what it means to be alive.
John Barrowman
#30. I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.
Ike Turner
#31. Your ability to discern key people in your life and organization before you bring them in saves you lots of time, trouble, and regrets... Watch out!!!
Assegid Habtewold
#32. As seemingly impossible as it may seem of having zero regrets, when I look at my life now and all the mistakes I've made, all the bad decisions I've made, all the things I could have done differently or done more in, I don't think I would have changed anything.
Apolo Ohno
#33. You make mistakes, but I don't have any regrets. I'm the kind of person who takes responsibility for it and deals with it. I learn from everything I do. I work very hard, I have so many things going on in my life. Get to know me and see who I am.
Kim Kardashian
#34. Indecision and fear can cripple any chances of succeeding and lead to maelstroms of regret that fuel our most fantastic nightmares.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#35. Pining for what could have been only holds people back from living their lives now. Life is full of surprises, and it doesn't help us to fixate on regrets or try to recover what has been lost.
Jeff Goins
#36. We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.
Dalai Lama
#37. In life you find pleasure. In life you find pain. Pain and pleasure is an example of the duality in life. Enjoy them both, they are part of the ride. The key is to not turn the pain into something else - regret.
J.R. Rim
#38. The most difficult thing about my job is that I do a lot of 19-hour days. It's really difficult to have a life, never mind a relationship. I don't have any regrets, really. I'm quite content. I'm very stubborn and persistent. I just keep working.
Kim Cattrall
#39. A decision made during a moment of weakness can ruin your life.
To date, I had made three.
Melika Dannese Lux
#40. As he stared into the ocean, he must have tossed a lifetime of apologies into its silence. Maybe he thought the tide would wash his troubles away.
Diane Keaton
#41. It's amazing how long we put up with things we detest for the sake of a quiet life.
Tami Egonu
#42. People's most common regret was living the life others expected of them, rather than having the courage to live a life true to themselves, and realising some dreams had gone unfulfilled as a result.
Bianca Nogrady
#43. I want to live my life so that my nights are not full of regrets.
D.H. Lawrence
#44. Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!
Adhish Mazumder
#45. Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.
Zinedine Zidane
#46. The master was the light of her life. And I always says that the ones who quarrels takes the loss the hardest in the end. It's regrets, isn't it? All they didn't say or do. She'll feel it more than the rest, mark my words
Gaynor Arnold
#47. Just do something. You might make a mistake, then you can fix it. But if you do nothing, you can't fix anything. And your life might turn out full of regrets.
Jenny Colgan
#49. Do what is right, and you'll have no lasting regrets. Do what is right, and put yourself on the side of truth, goodness, and the best of life.
Ralph Marston
#50. Every life has a destiny ... the trick is to discover it before then end of your life. Otherwise, you will have too many regrets.
Kevin J. Anderson
#51. I try to have the motto of living life with no regrets.
Matt Flynn
#52. Life was a sorrowful throb of this Matter teaching it anguish, Teaching it hope and desire trod out too soon in the mire, Life the frail joy that regrets its briefness, life the long sorrow.
Sri Aurobindo
#53. I haven't lived a perfect life. I have regrets. But that's from a lifetime of taking chances, making decisions, and trying not to be frozen. The only thing that I can do with my regrets is understand them.
Kevin Costner
#54. It's better to live a life full of regrets than not live at all." He lowers his voice and adds huskily, "Let me show you how it's done.
Mia Asher
#55. Toward the end of his life, Fred Terman wrote that he had no regrets: "If I had my life to live over again, I would play the same record.
Eric Weiner
#56. Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
Roman Payne
#58. Try to live with as few regrets as you can short of zero. A life with no regrets at all was never really lived.
D.X. Logan
#59. Nothing wastes more energy than worrying. The longer one carries a problem, the heavier it becomes. Don't take life too seriously. Live a life full of serenity, not of regrets.
Douglas Pagels
#60. If you fear you've written too many checks on God's kindness account, drag regrets around like a broken bumper, huff and puff more than you delight and rest, and, most of all, if you wonder whether God can do something with the mess of your life, then grace is what you need.
Max Lucado
#61. I commit to most things I do in life, so I don't really have any serious regrets. But I'll say this: There are plenty of people that I wish I could un-meet. It's kind of an L.A. syndrome.
Sasha Grey
#62. Most people's major life regrets are not about the things they've done, but about the things they've not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they'd been but know they failed to be.
Thom Hartmann
#63. You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I'm sure you'll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul.
Stephenie Meyer
#64. She concluded that to be able to live without regrets, one has to let go of life that one has planned to give space to life which has been destined.
Madhu Vajpayee
#65. Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success.
Louisa May Alcott
#66. since the hardships of life is what has made me strong, instead of living with regrets--I'm thankful for what went wrong
Jason Frisby
#67. I live my life with no regrets. Each decision of mine has define my life in a certain way
Katrina Kaif
#68. I was so tired of fighting. Tired of hurting. Tired of the guilt that never released me, and the regrets that could not be changed. I didn't want this life. They're were only so many times I could hear that I should never have been born, before I wished it to be true.
Rebecca Donovan
#69. I would alter nothing of the journey made for it is in this road travelled that the sweetest of lessons are learnt.
Truth Devour
#70. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.
Cindy Crawford
#71. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.
John Rzeznik
#72. Life was about taking chances. Going for what you wanted so that you didn't get old and have pages of regrets. Sometimes you won and sometimes you lost, as much as I hated it.
Mariana Zapata
#73. No REGRETS. Just LESSONS learned, BLESSINGS recognized and HUMOR found.
Tanya Masse
#74. Here is my biggest takeaway after 60 years on the planet: There is great value in being fearless. For too much of my life, I was too afraid, too frightened by it all. That fear is one of my biggest regrets.
Diane Keaton
#75. When it is mid week, pause and ponder! The very single days we disregard are what become the very years we wished to have used effectively and efficiently. If we disregard today, we shall remember our had I know tomorrow. Time changes therefore think of the changing times.
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#76. Unless you have a life of great importance, regrets are stupid, crumpled-up tickets to a circus that has already left town.
Lorrie Moore
#77. I've found the things I've regretted most in my life are the things I wanted to do but never had the courage to try. And I'm beginning to think I don't want you to become one of my what-if-I'd-only-tried-it regrets.
Linda Kage
#79. A friend of mine said something powerful at his grandfather's funeral. He said that the greatest lesson from his grandfather's life was that he died empty, because he accomplished everything he wanted, with no regrets. I think that, along with leaving a legacy, would be the greatest sign of success.
Marvin Sapp
#80. Never job backwards. What might have been was a waste of time.
Ian Fleming
#81. One of the great regrets of my life is that I smoked. If I could say anything to anybody starting out in life it would be, 'Whatever you do, don't smoke'. I have had to recover from that and been lucky that I have been able to stop.
Bill Nighy
#82. 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
#83. One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.
Robert Breault
#84. So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb.
Muriel Barbery
#85. Today, live your life to the fullest because tomorrow is a mystery, don't enter it with regrets
Abie Sigauke
#86. I think if I hadn't been a writer, I'd have been a teacher like my dad. He was a college professor, and one of my greatest regrets is that he passed away before I was able to prove to him that I wasn't going to be stuck working at Rax Roast Beef for the rest of my life!
Meg Cabot
#87. Judge me if you want, but at the end of my life I choose to have memories not regrets.
Steve Maraboli
#88. In the long-run, regrets consist less of bad choices and more of choices not made at all. Little do we realize, those were choices too.
Ryan Lilly
#89. We've all made mistakes. We've all done things we wish we hadn't. The goal is to learn, and to move on and try to live a life of no regrets.
Lauren Blakely
#90. One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it.
Kristi Yamaguchi
#91. With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.
Scott Tolzien
#92. Of all the regrets I've had in life, and there are plenty, having loved too much will never be one of them.
Thurman P. Banks Jr.
#93. Today is the day you can wipe away all those regrets you've been carrying around for far too long. Today is the day that you can put your past in your past, and let God directs your future.
Robin Bertram
#94. It matters not if we fail, but I need you to at least try, because then you can forgive yourself. Regrets will keep you chasing demons for the rest of your life.
O.E. Boroni
#95. What is past, but unalterable truth; life, just a pile of regrets; future, just a sum total of possibilities, and you...? just another trapped soul...
Gayathri Jayakumar
#96. The life of a woman may be divided into three epochs; in the first she dreams of love, in the second she makes love in the third she regrets it.
Prosper Of Aquitaine
#97. When I left school I went on trip around the world - I only got as far as Australia, but like a bloody fool I cut it short because of a girl. It's probably one of my big regrets in life.
Ben Nicholson
#98. When I am running I inhabit and exit my body in the same moment. I bear witness to the harshest of physical sensations, even while I feel myself flying free and away. I do not want to remember what has happened to me. I do not want to reflect on the past. I can't in a way. I'm not made for regrets.
Carrie Snyder
#99. A good man lives for the joy in life and the happiness of being alive, not shackled to the wants of the future or the regrets of the past.
Carew Papritz
