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My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.
-Woody Allen
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Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
-Richard Bach
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I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
-Lucille Ball
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I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.
-Lucille Ball
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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
-John Barrymore
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When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
-Alexander Graham Bell
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I have no regrets. I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
-Ingrid Bergman
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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
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Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did.
-H. Jackson Brown, Jr.
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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
-William Cullen Bryant
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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.
-Edward George Bulwer-Lytton
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I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
-Samuel Butler
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Cherish what is dearest while you have it near you, and wait not till it is far away. Blind and deaf that we are; oh, think, if thou yet love anybody living, wait not till death sweep down the paltry little dust clouds and dissonances of the moment, and all be made at last so mournfully clear and beautiful, when it is too late.
-Thomas Carlyle, Reminiscences
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Never make a defense or apology before you are accused.
-Charles I
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A stiff apology is a second insult. The injured party does not want to be compensated because he has been wronged; he wants to be healed because he has been hurt.
-G. K. Chesterton
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
-William Cowper
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Remorse begets reform.
-William Cowper
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It's the things I might have said that fester.
-Clemence Dane
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Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.
-Charles Dickens
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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.
-Wayne Dyer
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People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.
-Bob Dylan
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A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
-Oliver Goldsmith
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Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
-George Halas
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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, Strictly Personal
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I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
-Katharine Hepburn
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I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
-Midori Ito
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We rarely repent of having eaten too little.
-Thomas Jefferson
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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
-Joseph Joubert
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The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.
-Joe Karbo
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Never make a defense or apology before you be accused.
-King Charles I
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Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
-Jonathan Larson
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It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
-Oscar Levant
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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution.
-Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
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Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
-Max L. Lucado
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Make it a rule in life never to regret and never look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing in.
-Katherine Mansfield
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Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!
-Steve Martin
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Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
-H. L. Mencken
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I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an echoing hall
Alone and from a chipped plate
The words that I withdrew too late.
-Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
-Arthur Miller
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
-George Moore
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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.
-Ogden Nash
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When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
-Richard Milhous Nixon
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An apology? Bah! Disgusting! Cowardly! Beneath the dignity of any gentleman, however wrong he might be.
-Baroness Emmuska Orczy
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Remorse is the pain of sin.
-Theodore Parker
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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
-Marcel Proust
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Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
-William Shakespeare
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People have to face regrets. Becoming mature means learning to accept what you cannot change, facing unresolved sorrows and learning to love life as it really happens, not as you would have it happen. When someone attaches unkindness to criticism, she's angry. Angry people need to criticize as an outlet for their anger. That's why you must reject unkind criticism. Unkind criticism is never part of a meaningful critique of you. Its purpose is not to teach or to help, its purpose is to punish. Life isn't supposed to be an all or nothing battle between misery and bliss. Life isn't supposed to be a battle at all. And when it comes to happiness, well, sometimes life is just okay, sometimes it's comfortable, sometimes wonderful, sometimes boring, sometimes unpleasant. When your day's not perfect, it's not a failure or a terrible loss. It's just another day.
-Barbara Sher
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The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
-Harriet Beecher Stowe
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To regret deeply is to live afresh.
-Henry David Thoreau
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Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
-Henry David Thoreau
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The worst thing that one can do is not try, to be aware of what one wants and not give in to it, to spend years in silent hurt wondering if something could have materialized -- and never knowing.
-David Viscott
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
-Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer in a Garden
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I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off.
-William Westmoreland
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
-John Greenleaf Whittier, "Maud Muller"
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
-Billy Wilder
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Only in your imagination can you revise.
-Fay Wray
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If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.
-Henny Youngman
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Books about Regret & Remorse
