Top 100 You Regret Quotes
#1. Rarely do you regret what you have done nearly as much as what you have failed to do.
Jeffrey Fry
#2. You only get so many days on this earth, everyday that you live try to redeem yourself for something that you regret.
Austin V. Songer
#3. 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
#4. How do you sort the treasure from the trash? When does something move from sentimental to disposable? And if you think you are ready to part with it, are you really? If you throw it away today, will you regret it tomorrow? Or will it be something you never think about again?
Wendelin Van Draanen
#5. 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
#7. Live riotously lest not you regret the minutes, moments, hours and days of time gone by.
Maximillian Degenerez
#8. If we all blinked out of existence ten minutes from now, would you be satisfied with the life you've led? What would you regret not having done?
Jeremy Puma
#9. Only by embracing all that you regret and not denying it, only by placing the highest value on what you've gained because of all you've lost, does regret lose the ability to cripple you.
Augusten Burroughs
#10. When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.
Grace Slick
#11. They'll find out whatever it is you want most in the world and give it to you - with a sting in the tail of the gift that will make you regret you ever wanted it in the first place.
Cassandra Clare
#12. Yes there are times when you regret your decisions but we all have to make them without the power of hindsight.
Roland Gift
#13. Just give me one night, Vanessa. One night, and I won't let you regret it.
Meredith Wild
#14. There are going to be more moments in your life that you regret not doing than there will be moments you regret doing. So do them, and please, don't hold back.
Sophie Abbott
#15. When you regret something, what you aren't seeing is that someday, later, or maybe sooner, you're going to see why you didn't get the thing you wanted. So often, something better is just around the corner.
Bethenny Frankel
#16. Do you regret those days?'
'No,' replied Marcelle acidly: 'but I regret the life I might have had.
Jean-Paul Sartre
#17. Before you make a decision, ask yourself this question: will you regret the results or rejoice in them?
Rob Liano
#18. My advice is flip a coin. If you regret the way it landed, then go with your gut.
Justin Kan
#19. In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do.
Hugh Jackman
#20. Deeply vulnerable and hurting within as you act tough outside. You do need people; you need them so much so that it scares you to death. You drive them away so they don't get too close; yet you regret it every time you do.
Rachel Reiland
#21. It's not the intensity of pain, but the level of stupidness that makes you do things you regret.
Sarvesh Jain
#22. I know you may not believe it, but the last thing I want to do is hurt you or do anything that would make you regret that we've met.
- Jeremy
Nicholas Sparks
#23. Now you make yourself come, bitch. And I'll know if you're faking. You make that cunt clench around my cock or I swear to God I'll make you regret it
Cara McKenna
#24. 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
#25. My flames ...
Were born because the world you've taken over
These are everyone flames!
The fact that you,ve hurt all those innocent people ...
I'LL MAKE YOU REGRET IT!!!
Sawada Tsunayoshi
#26. 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
#27. 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
#28. Woman, if you leave me smelling like roses . . . I'll see you regret it, he warned.
Lynn Kurland
#29. 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
#30. We all have to make choices," Joan said. "Since we can't have two lives, only one. But, most of those choices we make fresh every day, not just once. So, if you regret something, if you want to change your mind, you usually can.
Menna Van Praag
#31. When you've done something terrible, something you regret, it gives you this special insight, like you can detect other people's bad behavior.
Amber Dermont
#32. If I lost your respect ... I'm just hope you don't look at me as something you regret.
J. Cole
#33. Death changes everyone ... It changes the way you think, the way you feel, and the way you live your life. Sometimes it makes you thankful for what you have, but more often than not, it makes you regret what you've lost.
Tara Sivec
#34. On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.
Luis Suarez
#35. Would you choose to be like me, if you had the choice?" "I do choose it. You regret what you are only because you think you must keep others away from you. It will not keep me away.
Tiffany Reisz
#36. Do you regret your divorce? Was getting a divorce the best or worst thing that could have ever happened to you? Did you marry again? Will you marry again?
London Tracy
#37. How do you regret one of the best nights of your entire life? You don't. You remember every word, every look. Even when it hurts, you still remember.
Jenny Han
#38. 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
#39. You're the same as you were yesterday and the day before. Nothing has changed. Not really. Forget what troubles you. Regret nothing, but learn from any mistakes you make. Tomorrow will be a brighter day, I promise.
Morgan Rhodes
#40. It's a crime, when you think about how little time we get, that a man should ever be bored. When you are lying on your death bead, I expect you regret those weeks wasted more than your worst mistakes.
Joe Abercrombie
#41. She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: 'Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.
Edward Rutherfurd
#42. 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
#43. Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
Aaron Burr
#44. As you grow older, you'll find the only things you regret are the things you didn't do.
Zachary Scott
#45. I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.
Patrick Stump
#46. Never say that you regret something, because at one point in your life, you wanted it.
Drake
#47. 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
#48. The mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance
Helen Rowland
#49. If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile.
E.R. Mason
#50. Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.
Neige
#51. Don't be blurred by impulse, to avoid regrets, refrain from doing things that will make you regret.
Michael Bassey Johnson
#52. I'm far from perfect. There's a lot of times you'll say something that you regret or do something that you regret and wish you wouldn't have said it or done it.
Matt Kenseth
#53. People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.
Wanda Sykes
#54. Would you regret not doing it if you died tomorrow? Then do it today.
Alexi Wakefield
#55. When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.
Criss Jami
#56. Loyalty will always be found in the things you regret because it mattered.
Shannon L. Alder
#57. You're mean. "
"You have no idea", he managed. "Trip my sadist trigger, baby, and I'll make you regret it. There will be flowers. Candy. Kenny G.
Joey W. Hill
#59. I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
Kate Winslet
#60. Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in 'Top Gun' and I turned it down.
Scott Baio
#61. I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn
#62. Usually you regret the things you say no to.
Jim Carrey
#63. Because I know what it's like to see an old love and feel like you've just been sucker-punched. How it makes you regret all of the things you did to them and at the same time reaffirms everything you feel for them instantly.
K. Bromberg
#64. The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
#65. When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
Danica McKellar
#66. In the end, you have to let things go. The things you regret are the things you hold on to.
John Connolly
#67. O plunge your hands in water, Plunge them in up to the wrist;
Stare, stare in the basin And wonder what you've missed.
W. H. Auden
#68. The pleasantness of their company outweighed the regret of their passing. On the whole, then, it is better to experience what you experience now than not to.
Isaac Asimov
#69. 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
#70. My point is,' Jamie continued, 'not everything's perfect, especially at the beginning. And it's all right to have a little bit of regret every once in a while. It's when you feel it all the time and can't do anything about it ... that's when you get into trouble.'
pg 169-170
Sarah Dessen
#71. Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm ... I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.
Jude Watson
#72. You can't live with regrets. It's about the journey
Mariah Carey
#73. In the unlikely event that she does escape me, I will inform you all. If you catch her, you are to detain her and return her to me." His eyes glowed like the fires of hell. "She is not to be harmed in any way, or so help you God, you will regret it until your last breath." *
Brooklyn Ann
#74. The tear-stained letters of my regret will remain forever unread, for I am never going to be strong enough to give them to you.
Courtney M. Privett
#75. Regret is the strongest anchor that latches on to the ground, and you carry it within you, it is a feeling quite unlike others for it is despair mingled with hope.
Saim .A. Cheeda
#77. When you close that door to nowhere throw away the key, we have a tendency to look back and regret
Paulo Coelho
#78. I regret, most of all, my shrivelled heart. So focused on the numbers. On the maths of my personal equation. Can a man change his heart? Are there ways to improve the spirit of who you are? Of why you choose?
Andrew Miller
#79. Guilt and Regret always pulls one down.
They have an impact like that of gravity.
They heavy you like few tons of concrete,
Therefore,
Instead of growing, moving on and learning from your mistakes,
You will wine and dine with Would Have's and Could Have's.
Nomthandazo Tsembeni
#80. As a man with imagination you can enjoy only in regret or in anticipation - that is, in the past or in the future.
Marcel Proust
#81. 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
#82. Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
John Connolly
#83. I may have had moments of regret in my life, but you know, they wouldn't add up to an hour.
Emma Donoghue
#84. Grief was something you could work through, but regret lived forever, tormenting you with everything you might have done differently.
Kit Rocha
#85. You ever flown something before?" (Christopher)
"I hold the highest score at A.S.U. for Star Wars: Starfighter." (Kitty)
"I know, beyond a shadow of a doubt, that I'm going to regret this." (Christopher)
Gini Koch
#86. There ain't nothing like regret to remind you're alive.
Sheryl Crow
#87. Anger seeped in, like an old friend who was a lousy house guest, but you forget every time he leaves how much you wish him gone, and welcome him heartily when he reappears. Anger was so much easier than hurt, or heartache, or regret, so anger it was. Welcome my old friend.
Julia Kent
#88. Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
L.M. Montgomery
#89. I don't know how many years it's been since I last slept with my husband. I was faithful, stupid and so awfully lonely that I'll gobble you up if you're nice to me. Or kill you because I can't bear it.
Nina George
#90. To be a good trader, you need to trade with your eyes open, recognize real trends and turns, and not waste time or energy on regrets and wishful thinking.
Alexander Elder
#91. Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone.
Taylor Swift
#92. You need not regret lost years if you have learned great things.
Jack Cady
#93. Are you sorry? Do you wish you could do it all again and go off and write novels instead of being a teacher?
No. You can't trade what is for what might have been.
Lurlene McDaniel
#94. If you don't suffer the pain of hard work now you will suffer the pain of regret and disappointment later.
Unknown
#96. 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
#97. At last.. You only regret the chances you didn't take.
Lovely Goyal
#98. First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.
Wayne Dyer
#99. When a person sets a thing in motion, there's a feeling of unease, almost regret, until you learn the truth.
Nicholas Sparks
#100. But when my grandmother saw me plucking [my eyebrows] she said: 'Don't. You will regret it. One day you will wake up with no eyebrows and think how stupid you were. Your eyebrows are the most beautiful thing about you.'
Natalia Vodianova
