Courtesy of Henrik Edberg, The Positivity Blog
“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.”
Fernando Pessoa
“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
Ray Stannard Baker
“When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.”
Eleonora Duse
“They say you should not suffer through the past. You should be able to wear it like a loose garment, take it off and let it drop.”
Eva Jessye
“I don’t regret what I’ve been through. I’ve had ups and downs, super highs and some really low lows. I’ve been so blessed that I could never say, ‘I wish this didn’t happen.’ It’s part of who I am. There’s nothing in my life that’s so ugh.”
Jennifer Lopez
“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren’t accompanied by regret.”
Laura Kasischke
“One doesn’t recognize the really important moments in one’s life until it’s too late.”
Agatha Christie
“We all do things we desperately wish we could undo. Those regrets just become part of who we are, along with everything else. To spend time trying to change that, well, it’s like chasing clouds.”
Libba Bray
“My advice to other disabled people would be, concentrate on things your disability doesn’t prevent you doing well, and don’t regret the things it interferes with. Don’t be disabled in spirit as well as physically.”
Stephen Hawking
“Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.”
David Grayson
“The only calibration that counts is how much heart people invest, how much they ignore their fears of being hurt or caught out or humiliated. And the only thing people regret is that they didn’t live boldly enough, that they didn’t invest enough heart, didn’t love enough. Nothing else really counts at all.”
Ted Hughes
“Regrets only apply when we don’t learn from a situation. No sense looking back, look forward with new knowledge and no regret.”
Catherine Pulsifer
“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”
Harriet Beecher Stowe
“I always try to do as much as I can do. I’m never a person that does not enough, because I’d regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn’t work.”
Tom Brady
“I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living.”
Ryan Sheckler
