- Don’t be on your deathbed someday, having squandered your one chance at life, full of regret because you pursued little distractions instead of big dreams. Derek Sivers
- “Those hours given over to basking in the glow of an imaginedfuture, of being carried away in streams of promise by a love ora passion so strong that one felt altered forever and convincedthat even the smallest particle of the surrounding world wascharged with purpose of impossible grandeur; ah, yes, andone would look up into the trees and be thrilled by the wind-loosened river of pale, gold foliage cascading down and by thehigh, melodious singing of countless birds; those moments, somany and so long ago, still come back, but briefly, like firefliesin the perfumed heat of summer night.” ― Mark Strand, Almost Invisible: Poems
- “When we cannot share our values any longer and our incipient intentions have become blurry, common understanding may turn into irredeemable misunderstanding. If the spirit of common perspectives and commitments has irreversibly been broken, we might patently drift down into suspicion, remorse or regret. As such, shared initiatives ought to be reasoned and well thought-out to avoid ‘understanding’ becoming ‘misunderstanding’ and ‘hope’ breaking down into ‘heartbreak’. (“The unbreakable code ” )” ― Erik Pevernagie
- “Mr. Frimpong is the oldest person from church. That’s when I knew why he sings louder than anybody else: it’s because he’s been waiting the longest for God to answer. He thinks God has forgotten him. I only knew it then. Then I loved him but it was too late to go back.” ― Stephen Kelman, Pigeon English
- “i dont love you… like i loved you… yesterday.” ― Gerard Way
- Essentialism means living life without regrets. Greg McKeown
- Try today or regret tomorrow. Maxime Lagacé (See also: Monday motivation quotes)
- “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, Heart of Darkness
- Live fast, fight hard, no regrets! John Cena
- Fear not for the future, weep not for the past. Percy Bysshe Shelley
- “When dealing with love and relationship. Hurting and betraying a great woman can lead you to a painful life of regret.” ― Angel Moreira
- I have often regretted my speech, but never my silence. Publilius Syrus
- “if we really look at our actions with eyes of love, we see that our lives can be more straightforward, simpler, less sculpted by regret and fear, more in alignment with our deepest values.” ― Sharon Salzberg, Real Love: The Art of Mindful Connection
- “Don’t show a friend your gift, or your bag of money if you still want to maintain your relationship, but if nay, go on, and all you’ll see is hate and jealousy, and you’ll fight with him in the street like a dog and all you’ll feel is regret.” ― Michael Bassey Johnson
- 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 I’m sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomforrow? José Saramago
- “Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes.” ― Shannon L. Alder
- “I am grateful for all those dark years, even though in retrospect they seem like a long, bitter prayer that was answered finally.” ― Marilynne Robinson
- “Some of us live in the future,Connected to hurts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by bitter regret,Then today has been painted black Some of us live in the presentConnected to gifts from our past,If tomorrow is colored by purposeful thought,the today’s masterpiece has been cast.” ― J.A. Conner
- “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” ― Roy T. Bennett
- Look to your own means, leave everything that isn’t yours alone. Make use of what material advantages you have, don’t regret the ones you were not allowed. Epictetus
- “Be who you are, don’t be a pretender,if you tell the truth, you don’t have to remember.” ― Freequill
- 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
- “You see, Katie,” Pastor Ron said, “that’s what makes faith so tough to grasp, but also makes it so wonderful. It’s all about believing in something—whether it’s God, or other people, or even yourself—when you’ve got nothing else to go on. Nothing but a little voice inside telling you it’s more than a hunch.” ― Kaylin McFarren, Flaherty’s Crossing
- Avoid things the best version of yourself will regret. Shane Parrish
- “الندم هو صوت الفطرة لحظة الخطأ” ― مصطفى محمود, رحلتي من الشك إلى الإيمان
- “Any time spent on fucking Gawker is regrettable.” ― A.D. Aliwat, In Limbo
- It is better to sleep on things beforehand than lie awake about them afterwards. Baltasar Gracián
- “You can miss places. You can miss people.Just know that what you’re really missing is the way things were. And even if you could go there again…. see them again…. you can’t go back.They’re not the same.You’re not the same.The loss of them changed you.” ― Ranata Suzuki
- “No such thing as time travel, he’d rumbled patiently, once. Only live with what you’ve done, and try in the future to do what you’re happy to live with.” ― Richard K. Morgan, Thirteen