Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Regret doesn't remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.
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.
We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.
I don't believe in regret.
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.