Regret Quotes

"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment." "In the end, I am reduced by my choices whether bad or good." "The feelings that hurt most, the emotions that sting most, are those that are absurd: the longing for impossible things, precisely because they are impossible, nostalgia for what never was, the desire for what could have been, regret over not being someone else, dissatisfaction with the world's existence. All these half-tones of the soul’s consciousness create in us a painful landscape, an eternal sunset of what we are." "My past is everything I failed to be." "Always saw you for what you could've been " "The good ones go, if you wait too long " "The nostalgia for things we have lost is more bearable than the nostalgia for things that never were" "I always thought the saddest feeling in life is when you're dancing in a really joyful way, and then realize maybe you shouldn't be" "There are moments when reality exceeds my wildest dreams. Usually, it is followed by extreme regret." "To cheat oneself out of love is the most terrible deception; it is an eternal loss for which there is no reparation, either in time or in eternity." "What's done, cannot be undone" "I am one who loved not wisely but too well." "Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done." "What's done can't be undone." "Lost time is never found again"