Orson Scott Card Quotes

Regret should be handled swiftly, and you shouldn't hold onto it. People spend their entire lives regretting what they didn't do and what they should've done. Hey, man, you did what you did.

I can't take it back. I can't take anything back. So I don't regret it.

We know that we can't undo our whole lives.

Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back.

I don't spend a lot of time thinking about regrets because there's nothing I can do.

I'm not big on regret; I don't spend a lot of time on it.

The more time you spend contemplating what you should have done... you lose valuable time planning what you can and will do.

Accept what you did do, and live with it.

I think to regret is useless in life. It belongs to the past.

The past is a sorry country.

There's mistakes that I have made. Some chances I just threw away. Some roads I never should've taken. Been some signs I didn't see. Hearts that I hurt needlessly. Some wounds that I wish I could have one more chance to mend, but it don't make no difference: The past can't be rewritten. You get the life you're given.

You couldn't get hold of the things you'd done and turn them right again. Such a power might be given to the gods, but it was not given to women and men, and that was probably a good thing. Had it been otherwise, people would probably die of old age still trying to rewrite their teens.

My history is long, and not much of it is good. I can't erase it, but I'm determined not to make another mistake. Not when the stakes are high, not when it comes to you.

The mill cannot grind with the water that is past.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

I don't really believe in regrets.

I don't harp on what I could change about the past, because I can't go back and change it. But definitely a lot of things I would change.

You can't help but... with 20/20 hindsight, go back and say, 'Look, had we done something different, we probably wouldn't be facing what we are facing today.'

Apologizes are pointless, regrets come too late. What matters is you can move, on you can grow.

When your future arrives, will you blame your past?

As you make your bed, so you must lie in it.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

I always say, decisions I make, I live with them. There's always ways you can correct them or ways you can do them better. At the end of the day, I live with them.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.