Quotes about Regret
It is a far, far better thing that I do, than I have ever done; it is a far, far better rest that I go to, than I have ever known.
— Charles Dickens
Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
— Oprah Winfrey
If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.
— St. Basil
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
— Frank Herbert
If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.
— Marianne Williamson
I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.
— Oprah Winfrey
Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'IÂ'm glad I did'?
— Zig Ziglar
You will be more disappointed in life by the things that you do not do than by the things that you do.
— Mark Twain
I do not look at myself. I have given up myself. I had to, you know, after the murder. That was what it did for me. And that was how everything began
— CS Lewis
You rarely regret saying no. But you often wind up regretting saying yes.
— Jason Fried
Something he knew he had missed: the flower of life. But he thought of it now as a thing so unattainable and improbable that to have repined would have been like despairing because one had not drawn the first prize in a lottery.
— Edith Wharton
Once—twice—you gave me the chance to escape from my life, and I refused it: refused it because I was a coward. Afterward I saw my mistake—I saw I could never be happy with what had contented me before. But it was too late: you had judged me—I understood. It was too late for happiness—but not too late to be helped by the thought of what I had missed. That is all I have lived on—don't take it from me now!
— Edith Wharton