“Don’t get to the end of your life and regret all the things you didn’t do.”— Rhonda Byrne, amazon.com
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Would ‘sorry’ have made any difference? Does it ever? It’s just a word. One word against a thousand actions.”— Sarah Ockler, amazon.com
“Two people who were once very close can without blame or grand betrayal become strangers. Perhaps this is the saddest thing in the world.”— Warsan Shire, baucemag.com
“You were hurt badly, and those scars will be with you forever. I feel sorry for you, I really do. But think of it like this: it’s not too late to recover. You’re young, you’re tough. You’re adaptable. You can patch up your wounds, lift up your head and move on.”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened. That doesn't help you...”— Mitch Albom, amazon.com
“How far can you go down the wrong path before you can’t get back on the right one?”— Carolee Dean, amazon.com
“Then I decided I didn’t want any regrets. I’m done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.”— Ned Vizzini, amazon.com
“Every one of us is losing something precious to us…Lost opportunities, lost possibilities, feelings we can never get back again. That’s part of what it means to be alive. But inside our heads- at least that’s where I imagine it- there’s a little room where we store those memories. A room like the st…”— Haruki Murakami, amazon.com
“I didn’t realize it, but the days came along one after another, and then two years were gone, and everything was gone, and I was gone.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Suddenly she realized that what she was regretting was not the lost past but the lost future, not what had not been but what would never be.”— F. Scott Fitzgerald, amazon.com
“Sometimes, the truth comes out in ways you wish it didn’t; all you can do is hope that someday you will be forgiven, that the blemish will be erased from the permanent record known as your soul.”— Ted Michael, amazon.com
“What a terrible mistake to let go of something wonderful for something real.”— Miranda July, amazon.com
“Nowadays every time we see each other, after I leave you I go home with the miserable feeling that I’m slow and dense about everything. I review things I’ve said, and come up with all the bright and witty things I should have said, and I feel like kicking myself because I didn’t mention them when we…”— Daniel Keyes, amazon.com
“Have regrets. They are fuel. On the page they flare into desire.”— Geoff Dyer, theparisreview.tumblr.com
“People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.”— Kurt Vonnegut, amazon.com