Regret Quotes

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

Jonathan Larson

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

Henry David Thoreau

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only for wallowing in.

Katherine Mansfield

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.

Fulton Oursler

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney Smith

There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind

Eleanor Roosevelt

Regret, which is guilt without the neurosis, enables us ... to move forward instead of back.

Jane Adams

Regret is an odd emotion because it comes only upon reflection. Regret lacks immediacy, and so its power seldom influences events when it could do some good.

William O\'Rourke

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

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

Charles Dudley Warner

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

Sydney J. Harris

Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.

John O\'donohue

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

Rafael Sabatini

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

A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.

John Sidney Blyth Barrymore

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Jim Rohn

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

Woody Allen

It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and sensless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart

Jonathan Carroll

It is human nature to want to go back and fix things or change things that we regret.

John Gray

The only conquests that are permanent and leave no regrets are our conquests over ourselves.

Napoleon Bonaparte

We often regret we did not do otherwise, when that very otherwise would, in all probability, have done for us.

Charles Caleb Colton

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

James Ellis

One of the sweetest pleasures of a woman is to cause regret.

Paul Gavarni