#Regret

"Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been."

"You might be looking for reasons but there are no reasons."

"A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth."

"..he wanted her.And at another time, as another man, he would have her. Without hesitation. As lover. . . as more."

"The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did."

"You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens."

"Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so."

"Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done"

"Regret is counterproductive. It's looking back on a past that you can't change. Questioning things as they occur can prevent regret in the future."

"We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success."

"I wouldn't have missed a single minute of it, Not for the whole world."

"Everybody was sorry. Sorry was easy. Sorry was for suckers."

"Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?"

"We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future."

"The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not."

"I look out into the water and up deep into the stars. I beg the sparkling lanterns of light to cure me of myself — my past and the kaleidoscope of mistakes, failures and wrong turns that have stacked unbearable regret upon my shoulders."

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

"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."

"I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country."

"Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret."