Regret Quotes

Live through this, and you won’t look back. There’s one thing I want to say, so I’ll be brave: you were what I wanted, I gave what I gave. I’m not sorry I met you. I’m not sorry it’s over. I’m not sorry there’s nothing to save.

I know someday you'll have a beautiful life, I know you'll be a star in somebody else's sky, but why, why, why can't it be, can't it be mine?

I only do what I love, so that way you have no regrets. If you don't agree with something and do it anyway that sets you up for regret.

I ran it over and over it in my mind, the series of events and choices that kept me from being beside my mom in her last hours, but thinking about it didn’t do a thing. Thinking about it was a long dive into a bucket of shit that didn’t have a bottom.

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

"Twenty years from now you will be more disappointed by the things you didn't do than by the ones you did. So throw off the bowlines, Sail away from the safe harbor. Catch the trade winds in your sails. Explore. Dream. Discover."

You've got to risk love, it doesn't mean that you're never going to get hurt but the pain you feel will never compare to the regret that comes from walking away from love.

It's the things I might have said that fester.

I don't think things through very often—I don't project into the future about how a situation will turn out. Even the simplest things, I'm guilty of making really bad decisions a lot of the time.

Many times in life I have regretted the things I have said without thinking. But I have never regretted the things I've said nearly as much as the words I left unspoken.

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience.

With...insight, we begin to see both ourselves and our enemies in humbler profiles. We are not really as innocent as we felt when we were first hurt. And we do not usually have a gigantic monster to forgive; we have a weak, needy, and somewhat stupid human being. When you see your enemy and yourself in the weakness and silliness of the humanity you share, you will make the miracle of forgiving a little easier.

I just wanted to say I love you. I love everyone. It may be a friend love, a family love, or the rare but certainly not extinct "you're my other half" love, but nonetheless, I love you all. I don't ever want to leave any words left unspoken because those are the words we regret the most.

“Tell him yes,” she said. “Even if you are dying of fear, even if you are sorry later, because whatever you do, you will be sorry all the rest of your life if you say no.”

It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards.

My only love sprung from my only hate!
Too early seen unknown, and known too late!

At the end of your life you will never regret not having passed one more test, winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a child, a friend, or a parent.

You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear. Do it! Develop an appreciation for the present moment. Seize every second of your life and savor it. Value your present moments. Using them up in any self-defeating ways means you've lost them forever.

She was my rice seed and I was her orange peel.

If you wish to forget anything on the spot, make a note that this thing is to be remembered.