Quotes about Regret
The thoughts that linger are the "If only" questions, like Who could I have become if I had finally done the things I always wanted to do? The gift of deciding to face your mortality without turning away or flinching is the gift of recognizing that because you WILL die, you must live NOW. Whether you flounder or flourish is always in your hands. You are the single biggest influence in your life. Your journey begins with the choice to get up, step out, and live. Fully.
— Oprah Winfrey
The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
— Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
A kiss may ruin a human life
— Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
— Oscar Wilde
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
— Oscar Wilde
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
— Oscar Wilde
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
— Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
— Oscar Wilde
The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.
— Confucius
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
— Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised
— Cormac McCarthy