“The most painful wounds are not the ones inflicted by others, but the ones we inflict on ourselves. They are the wounds of regret, of guilt, of knowing that we have failed to live up to our own ideals. These wounds fester in the darkness, hidden from the world, but they bleed us dry, sapping our strength, our will to go on. And as we carry these wounds with us, we begin to realize that they will never heal, that we are destined to suffer in silence, prisoners of our own making.”
Source: The Remains of the Day
“To regret what your life has been is the true folly, I told myself, because the person doing the regretting has been shaped by the life he subsequently regrets.”
Source: Knife: Meditations After an Attempted Murder
“You wish you could accurately describe the bone-deep ache of walking on that campus, the too-late realization that you'd fucked up your whole life by not having sufficient ambition. Who are you? You are nobody. You are nothing.”
Source: In the Dream House
“The Duchesse de Langeais will be happy that she might weep and be a power for you, still.
Yes, you will regret me. I see clearly that I am not of this world, and I thank you for making it clear to me.
Farewell. You will never touch my axe. Yours was the executioner's axe, mine is god's. Yours kills, mine saves. Your love was but mortal, it could not endure disdain or ridicule. Mine can endure all things without growing weaker.”
Source: La Duchesse de Langeais / La Fille aux yeux d'or
“Their pasts together would remain forever unresolved. It was impossible to move forward when part of you was trapped in the past.”
Source: The Courting of Bristol Keats
“Never regret being selfless and kind,
People like you are rare,
And hard to find”
“The cemetery of regret is the place where the future is buried before it can be born.”
“Regret and guilt are fierce scavengers, and I am easy prey.”
Source: The Lamplighter
“Anyone who says, they have no regrets, never dared to live up to their full capacity.”
Source: Little Planet on The Prairie: Dunya Benim, Sorumluluk Benim
“There is no use regretting what has happened.”
Source: The Book of Three