Regretfulness Quotes

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

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

I have a tendency to go through my life at full speed and as a one-man band, and so I don't generally stop and take in other people enough to develop many relationships. I'm starting to regret that a bit. I want to change it.

He is a fool who only sees the mischiefs that are past.

Vice leaves repentance in the soul, like an ulcer in the flesh, which is always scratching and lacerating itself; for reason effaces all other griefs and sorrows, but it begets that of repentance.

The thing I would hate myself for the most or regret the most is if I did not push myself to maximize my potential and my abilities.

Every fool has a reason for feeling sorry for himself.

Shame isn't a strong enough word for what I feel. "You could live a hundred lifetimes and not deserve him, you know," Haymitch says.

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

If you find something you are passionate about, you've got to try. Even if something doesn't quite work out, disappointment is a temporary thing. Regret lasts forever.

Nothing is more useless than complaining over errors that can no longer be rectified, nothing more vain than regret.

You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

Everyone who is taken by death asks for more time, while everyone who still has time makes excuses for procrastination.

One can repent even of having repented.

What's said is said and goes upon its way Like it or not, repent it as you may.

I always see where I didn't do things the right way. I only see the heavy lifting. That's a bit of my wisdom, if you want to call it that.

Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

The fast pace of life doesn't give you much scope for wasting your time or wallowing in the past or regrets.

Have your fun, my dear; but if you must earn your bread, try to make it sweet with cheerfulness, not bitter with the daily regret that it isn't cake.

He who spends too long regretting his ruined crop will be neglect to plant next year's harvest.

Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.

For of fortunes sharp adversitee The worst kynde of infortune is this, A man to han ben in prosperitee, And it remembren, whan it passed is.