Regret Quotes - Page 4

Sometimes we hold on to the good and the better for a very long time that we don't even know when we allowed the best to slip away from our hands.

Time doesn't run backward, you know, and things that have been done can't be undone, no matter how hard you wish.

If you have trouble getting motivated always remember that time is going to pass either way and that eventually regret is going to make its way around.

From all that I saw,
and everywhere I wandered,
I learned that time cannot be spent,
It only can be squandered.

If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make.

The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn't live boldly enough, that they didn't invest enough heart, didn't love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.

The day I started fearing regret is the day I decided to never stop.

And he had a theory about fear. It was all about regret. If you make what you want out of life and don't bullshit yourself about your choices, then there are no regrets, and a man without regret isn't afraid of anything.

I hate going back. I’d rather live at the bottom of my river of black, dragged this way and that by the forces that be, than go back there. Those forty-eight hours took twenty years to drown.

I'd felt the pop of the needle sliding into my veins, like a fang into flesh. I'd been enveloped in the golden haze where nothing is wrong even when everything is falling apart. A dance with a hypodermic fiend, my hands in the claws of a vulture.

You only know me as an ordinary human being, with flesh, blood and bones, but there is something about me too hard for you to decipher, for if i let you, you will ever regret knowing me.

I like to live in 'fear'
becauSe, you are ready to face
any unexpected thing to become
and you have 'no regret' for it.

We all have different lives, Martin believes – but in the end probably feel the same things, and regret the fear we thought might somehow sustain us.

One thing I will surely miss is that I couldn't read all the good books in this lifetime.

For my success I am immensely grateful to God, my parents, my family, my friends, my teachers and to the books I read.

I’ve seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.

Beneath your burdensome regrets and who you think you are through the lens of past mistakes, there is someone beautiful who wants to emerge.

Sometimes it took death for me to see life, don't live with regrets keep your head high.
In a world filled with beauty I don't want to blink twice; soak up every moment because you can't stop time.

Go take a shower, you smell like good sex and unnecessary regret.

I don’t regret anything I was before because I still am.
I only regret not having loved you.
Put your hands in mine
And let’s be quiet, surrounded by life.