- “It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.” ― Jonathan Franzen, Strong Motion
- “Knowing you,I became mindless.Having wasted previous wishes,I’m riddled with regretsFeeling you,I became hopeless.Adrift in chasms,I surrender to a caress.Loving you,I became love.My universe became love.Planets rotate on love’s axes andapples fall to be near their beloveds.No longer a rationalist, I assert my existence with love. I love, therefore I exist,therefore I love.” ― Kamand Kojouri
- Try today or regret tomorrow. Maxime Lagacé (See also: Monday motivation quotes)
- The quickest way to stop dwelling on the past is to see that it isn’t there. There are only challenges to be met now. Thibaut
- The correlation between confidence and future regret is incredibly high. Morgan Housel
- “Your heart will always go where your mind wanders.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- 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
- Bravery is the solution to regret. Robin S. Sharma
- When you give it your all and it doesn’t work out, you are broken for a while but it passes because you have no regrets. You gave it everything you had. Shane Parrish
- Remorse for what is done is useless. Philo
- There are two ways to achieve calm: one is to never do what you regret, the other to never regret what you do. August Strindberg
- “If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been.” ― Nicholas Sparks, Message in a Bottle
- “Things that you are unlikely to regret: exercise, eating healthily, challenging yourself, making a plan, being kind.” ― Freequill
- Why didn’t I learn to treat everything like it was the last time. My greatest regret was how much I believed in the future. Jonathan Safran Foer
- “We suddenly feel fearful and apprehensive, naked in our perishable flesh, and for just a moment we wish we could go back to being stone—crumbling in death rather than rotting, trapped inside an immobile prison of stone rather than reduced to immaterial souls like those that now rattled within our skulls. The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.” ― Ekaterina Sedia, The Alchemy of Stone
- Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what’s even scarier? Regret. Zig Ziglar
- “Happy moments can turn into pain, given time.” ― Matt Haig, The Midnight Library
- “we met one strange summerin a regular tangle of sticky websyou had the air of angels sweet but I–drowned with the damned spiritsin lava oceans fearing your–foreign static frequency and grey-green eyes(I swear they are even if you–think otherwise): stormscalm ones, calmer than my–raging coals, empty and deadyou speak of souls like you believealways an optimist in pessimisticskin of ivory and titanium mesh…” ― Moonshine Noire
- Avoid things the best version of yourself will regret. Shane Parrish
- Past is a fiction. You can’t go back. All that remains is a hazy interpretation of a hazy memory. It’s not helpful. Naval Ravikant
- “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- “I wouldn’t have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world.” ― Stephen King
- “Always be truthful and you will have fewer visits from regret, guilt or fear.” ― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem
- I knew that if I failed I wouldn’t regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. Jeff Bezos (Amazon)
- “There is no better time to regret, no matter how much you have failed or improved your situation.” ― Kangoma Kindembo
- “I may say that I have forgotten a certain thing.Partially false; it has just faded I know. Unintentionally that thing might have prick-ed me more than the other things that I might have let go.I will only understand its depth, if after years of persuasive erosions and new etch marks, I dream about you one fine night; having nothing to do with my present. Just some sweet-bitter memories might surface one day. And that one day I will regret and at the same time thank to have met you in my life.” ― Ranjani Ramachandran
- Advice my dad just gave me: “Do your best and be at peace with it.” A good reminder for us all, I think. James Clear
- What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. George Saunders
- “Time was passing like a hand waving from a train I wanted to be on. I hope you never have to think about anything as much as I think about you.” ― jonathan safran foer
- “Don’t live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.” ― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut