Regretful Quotes

“When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus directs you: you go back to that – again and again.
Choose a new rudder: Look forward now – and focus on your passion with joyful anticipation.
Then your passion will fill the empty space of your loss...and where you land up will amaze you!”
― The Truth AD Infinitum

“You can not have empty or neutral mind, as long as you work the mind will contain dreams, if you stop working it will contain regrets.”
― Amit Kalantri

“When you look back with regret, that (regret, loss) becomes your focus.
Then your focus directs you: you go back to that – again and again.
Look forward now – and focus on your passions with joyful anticipation.
Then your passion will fill the gap of your loss...and where you land us will amaze you!”
― The TRUTH

“Well, say you only have two choices. You can like red or you can like blue. It’s easy to look at those two colors and decide that, between them, you like red. But when you consider all the colors in the world, then what? You could narrow it down to liking red, but what shade of red? Some of them are practically the same. And some are way different. But they’re all red, so you like them all, because who ever said a person can like just one color and that’s it? But you’re asking me to pick one color and like it for the rest of my life.”

“And,” I go on, “every time you talk to someone who’s already picked their color, some adult who’s had their whole life to think about their decision, you know what they say? They regret what they chose. So now they’re stuck their whole life with orange, but they’ve realized orange was a shit color to start with.”
― Chelsea Sedoti, As You Wish

“To avoid being a diffident, contrite and regretful personality, we should work hard to explore our true potential and take a cue from our abilities to exploit available opportunities.”
― Dr Prem Jagyasi

“We quenched the bulging flame, amongst
the ashes embers of fire remain”
― Mie Hansson, Where Pain Thrives

“He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.”
― Kassandra Cross, Carrie's First Time

“គេក្បត់យើង យើងឈឺចាប់ យើងក្បត់គេ យើងមានវិប្បដិសារី រវាងការឈឺចាប់ និង​វិប្បដិសារី សម្រាប់ខ្ញុំ វិប្បដិសារីធំជាង”
― Khem Veasna

“Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.”
― Craig D. Lounsbrough

“To live with regret is to deny one;s life of living.”
― Gillian Duce, Demons And Dangers: Magic And Mayhem - Book 4

“Staying relevant and speaking in kind tones is by far, the best way to make your point. The moment you lose track, throwing out a negative comment you’ve lost your way, and get the terrible task of carrying your own negative, regretful baggage around with you. It’s senseless to create your own heavy heart.”
― Ron Baratono

“Original sin and conscious awareness of human fallibility is the perpetual agent of transformation in human affairs. Humankind’s behavior is pathological; it is an admixture of instinct and reason, kindness and cruelty, immorality and seeking redemption.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Most love songs were inspired, not by love, but by loneliness, regretfulness, or horniness.”
― Mokokoma Mokhonoana

“At the end, life will hold us responsible for all the blessings that we refused to acknowledge.”
― Amit Kalantri, Wealth of Words

“វិប្បដិសារីគឺជាទណ្ឌកម្មធំបំផុតរបស់មនុស្សដែលមានឧត្តមគតិ”
― Khem Veasna

“Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.”
― John Connolly, The Infernals

“We regret because we fail to listen to an inner voice that says "I Can" and we watch as that pledge is hushed by our doubts and fears. We regret because we listened to someone else's voice rather than our own or because we knew what was right and didn't do it. Imagine a life where we trusted ourselves more, believed what others said less and committed to do what was noble. There would be no regret in that.”
― Jason Versey, A Walk with Prudence

“ខ្ញុំពិតជាឈឺចាប់ណាស់ នៅពេលដែលអ្នកស្មោះត្រង់នឹងខ្ញុំ ប៉ុន្តែខ្ញុំបែរជាក្បត់អ្នក តែការឈឺចាប់នេះ នៅមានទំហំតិចជាងវិប្បដិសារីដែលខ្ញុំក្បត់អ្នកនៅពេលដែលអ្នកស្មោះត្រង់នឹងខ្ញុំ”
― Khem Veasna

“Perhaps human beings are incapable of living without experiencing the blue-tinged taste of loss, failure, and regret. If incidents of remorse, shame, and guilt are unavoidable, perhaps the most we can hope for is to suffer from the type of regrets that hurt least. Sydney Smith (1771-1845), an English wit, writer and Anglican cleric said, ‘Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“It is now the dog days of August, the breathless days when a person tallies their regrets.”
― Kilroy J. Oldster, Dead Toad Scrolls

“Feyre,' he said- softly enough that I faced him again. 'Why?' He tilted his head to the side. 'You dislike our kind on a good day. And after Andras...' Even in the darkened hallway, his usually bright eyes were shadowed. 'So why?'

I took a step closer to him, my blood-covered feet sticking to the rug. I glanced down the stairs to where I could still see the prone form of the faerie and the stumps of his wings.

'Because I wouldn't want to die alone,' I said, and my voice wobbled as I looked at Tamlin again, forcing myself to meet his stare. 'Because I'd want someone to hold my hand until the end, and awhile after that. That's something everyone deserves, human or faerie.' I swallowed hard, my throat painfully tight. 'I regret what I did to Andras,' I said, the words so strangled they were no more than a whisper. 'I regret that there was... such hate in my heart. I wish I could undo it- and... I'm sorry. So very sorry.'

I couldn't remember the last time- if ever- I'd spoken to anyone like that. But he just nodded and turned away, and I wondered if I should say more, if I should kneel and beg for his forgiveness. If he felt such grief, such guilt, over a stranger, than Andras... By the time I opened my mouth, he was already down the steps.

I watched him- watched every movement he made, the muscles of his body visible through that blood-soaked tunic, watched that invisible weight bearing down on his shoulders. He didn't look at me as he scooped up the broken body and carried it to the garden doors beyond my line of sight. I went to the window at the top of the stairs, watching as Tamlin carried the faerie through the moonlit garden and into the rolling fields beyond. He never once glanced back.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“I never got to thank you for your advice with the Suriel.'

Lucien tensed. 'Oh?'

I looked ahead at the easy way Tamlin rode, the horse utterly unbothered by his mighty rider. 'If you still want me dead,' I said, 'you might have to try a bit harder.'

Lucien loosed a breath. 'That's not what I intended.' I gave him a long look. 'I wouldn't shed any tears,' he amended. I knew it was true. 'But what happened to you-'

'I was joking,' I said, and gave him a little smile.

'You can't possibly forgive me that easily for sending you into danger.'

'No. And part of me would like nothing more than to wallop you for your lack of warning about the Suriel. But I understand: I'm a human who killed your friend, who now lives in your house, and you have to deal with me. I understand,' I said again.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A Court of Thorns and Roses

“There were no sounds in her head, her body. She knew Cassian held her, knew they flew for hours and hours, and she didn't care.

She had done an unforgiveable thing.

She deserved to be turned into bloody mist by Rhysand. Wished Cassian had not come to save her.”
― Sarah J. Maas, A ​Court of Silver Flames

“Like any medicine, a tattoo would have its secondary side effect eventually--- might establish who you were or might transform you. Might even poison you.”
― Bonnie Jo Campbell, The Waters