Find Solace in These Touching Regret Quotes and Sayings

Regretting is an important component of the human experience, and it is synonymous with repentance. Regret may be devastating, but we all need a little bit of encouragement to see beyond our regrets. Here are some inspiring regret quotes to help you get rid of your regrets.

Quotes About Regretting That Will Inspire You

• "There is two kinds of guilt: the sort that drowns you till you're worthless, and the one that ignites your spirit with a sense of purpose."

• "We all do things we wish we could take back. Those regrets, like everything else, form a part of who we are."

• "Make the most of your regrets; never squash your grief, but nurture and love it until it takes on a different and fundamental significance." "To live anew is to regret terribly."

• "You will save a hundred days of grief if you are patient in one moment of rage."

• "It's like tears leaking through closed eyelids." 

• "If you're not in the now, you're either anticipating uncertainty or reminiscing over sorrow and regret."

• "I don't have any regrets.I followed all of the instructions to the letter."

• "It's better to plan ahead and prepare than to regret afterward."

• "Of course, you wish you could go back in time and do things differently. But it's pointless to be weighed down by regrets about things over which you have no control."

• "Don't spend your time with resentment, regret, anxiety, or grudges. "Life is too short to waste time being sad."

• "Perhaps all one can do is pray for the proper regrets."

• "Being what others want you to be rather than being yourself is one of life's biggest regrets."

• "The only aspect of my history that I regret is its duration. If I were to do it all over again, I would make the same errors - just sooner."

• "The ultimate charity is to give up oneself without regret."

• "Forget regret, or life will pass you by."

• "Regret is a rough palm on the face, delicate and calloused."

• "Make it a rule of life to never regret anything and to never look back." Regret is a terrible waste of energy; you can't create anything with it; it's just excellent for wallowing in."

• "Looking back on your life and seeing things as lessons rather than regrets is great."

• "I don't have anything to regret in the past, except maybe I may have wounded someone else accidentally or anything."

Quotes About Regret That Are Famous 

Quotes on regret reveal that the human condition is not rare. Here are some well-known life regret quotes.

• "Many of us are crucified by two thieves: sorrow for the past and dread of the future."

• "Regret is like a mountain peak from which we look down on our life that has passed us by."

• "The more regrets we have, the more we recognize the necessity of making good judgments."

• "In life, my objective is to make choices that leave me with the fewest regrets possible. "I have no regrets about anything I've done."

• "A man is not old until his regrets outnumber his hopes."

• "The poison of life is remorse."

• "Regret does not bring back a lost moment in history or in human existence, and a thousand years will not retrieve anything lost in a single hour."

• "In my life, I have no regrets." Everything occurs to you for a purpose, in my opinion. The difficult circumstances you go through shape your character and make you a much stronger person."

• "Life is too short, time is too valuable, and the stakes are too great to waste time thinking about what might have been."

• "My main financial regret is that I don't have any more to give away."

• "I don't believe I regret a single 'excess' of my youthful youth — I just regret not seizing certain opportunities and chances when I was younger."

• "Something you most need may be something you avoid, and something you avoid may be something you regret... it may cost you the one opportunity you've ever had."

• "Regrets are pointless, but history is a lengthy series of regrets." Everything may have gone in a completely different direction."

• "It is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable; sorrow for the things we did accomplish may be mitigated by time."

• "We don't have to be defined by our actions or inactions in the past. Some individuals allow regret to dictate their lives. It's possible that it's a regret, but it's also possible that it isn't. It's just something that occurred. "It's over with."

Regret quotes about love

Here are a few heartfelt regret quotes about love.

• "The hardest type of regret is hurting someone you love."

• "Let me fall without remorse like a leaf as I fall."

• "We're never more vulnerable than when we trust someone, yet conversely, we can't find love or pleasure if we can't trust."

• "Think about your family today and every day after that; don't allow today's hectic world to prevent you from displaying how much you love and cherish your family."

• "It doesn't matter what other people think as long as you enjoy yourself." All you have to do now is own it. You'll never be sorry for wearing something you like."

• "Blessed are those who can bend their hearts; they will never be broken."

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. - Henry David Thoreau

I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done. - Lucille Ball

Best Regret Quotes and Sayings

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - last words Nathan Hale

Do not regret growing older. It is a privilege denied to many.

We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets. -  Marilyn Monroe

To any entrepreneur: if you want to do it, do it now. If you don’t, you’re going to regret it. -Catherine Cook

No regrets for life just lessons learned. - Book of serenity

Have regular hours for work and play; make each day both useful and pleasant, and prove that you understand the worth of time by employing it well. Then youth will be delightful, old age will bring few regrets, and life will become a beautiful success. - Louisa May Alcott
Willful waste brings woeful want. - Jamaican Proverb

To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity. - Bodhidharma

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act; even when it has worked and he has not been caught. - H. L. Mencken

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. - Lucy Maud Montgomery

Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. - Ambrose Bierce

Diligent youth makes easy age. - French Proverb

Thinking first is an asset, regret later is useless. - Indoneaian Proverb

Water that’s flowed past the mill grinds no more. - Italian Proverb

The truth is, I’m proud of the life I’ve lived so far, and though I’ve made my share of mistakes, I have no regrets. - Carly Fiorina

Happy the man who, like Ulysses, has made a fine voyage, or has won the Golden Fleece, and then returns, experienced and knowledgeable, to spend the rest of his life among his family! - Joachim Du Bellay Sonnet de Regrets

If you marry you will regret it. If you do not marry you will regret it. If you marry or do not marry, you will regret it. - Either-Or Soren Kierkegaard

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. - Chuang-tzu

Our repentance is not so much regret for the ill we have done as fear of the ill that may happen to us in consequence. - Francois de La Rochefoucauld