R Quotes
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“Regret is what you should fear the most. If something is going to keep you awake at night, let it be the fear of not following your dream.”
Source: The Happiness of Pursuit: Finding the Quest That Will Bring Purpose to Your Life
“Regret isn't a negative. Wishing we could do better isn't bad... And if you let go of that regret, if you forget about consequence, then what are you? Who are you?”
Source: Life Is Strange Vol. 3: Strings
“Regret isn’t a strong enough motivator. They tell you to travel because if you don’t, you’ll regret it down the road. And so everyone did things that stemmed from a negative origin. Sex because I’ll get old. Dieting because I’ll get fat. Work because I’ll be poor. Success to prove my doubters wrong. But desire must derive from the action. It must be the thing that supplies us with a reason. The rest is negative fuel. We must jump over the crack in the cliff not because we’d regret never doing it, but because the other side of the rock calls to us. We must be drawn to the activity itself and let today lead us, rather than allow an invisible future do the haunting. We must live in additions. There’s a difference between “Oh, at least I don’t regret it” versus “Wow, that was a beautiful train I took.”
Source: The Goodbye Song
“Regret isn't going to get me anywhere. It's like being obsessed with something. It doesn't bring you anywhere.”
“Regret isn't good. Every decision one makes in life is made for a reason or another. Whenever something bad happens, I go, 'This is happening for a reason', or, 'This is going to teach me something'.”
“Regret is… an unavoidable result of any loss, for in loss we lose the tomorrow that we needed to make right our yesterday or today.”
Source: A Grace Disguised: How the Soul Grows Through Loss
“Regret it afterwards, but with what pleasant regrets, there will be no tattered shameful memories of a greedy love, hotly stolen one parting night, no shattered illusions or painful recriminations, just a gentle, wistful smile and stirring of desire, a little regret for a cool and pleasant body still virgin for each other. It seems a crime not to take, but perhaps the crime would be greater in the taking.”
“Regret, Joss. Regret does awful things to a person.”
Source: On Dublin Street
“Regret lasts in the silence of broken trust, a reminder of the walls built where openness should have been, leaving an emptiness that time cannot mend and a ache for what was lost through the cracks of doubt.”
“Regret leads to overeating and naps.”
“Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.”
“Regret not that you suffer in love, regret if you don't.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Regret not that you suffer, regret if you haven't suffered.”
Source: Making Britain Civilized: How to Gain Readmission to The Human Race
“Regret not the past, but learn from it.”
Source: The Little Book of Greatness: A Parable About Unlocking Your Destiny
“Regret nothing. Not the cruel novels you read
to the end just to find out who killed the cook.
Not the insipid movies that made you cry in the dark,
in spite of your intelligence, your sophistication.
Not the lover you left quivering in a hotel parking lot,
the one you beat to the punchline, the door, or the one
who left you in your red dress and shoes, the ones
that crimped your toes, don’t regret those.
Not the nights you called god names and cursed
your mother, sunk like a dog in the livingroom couch,b
chewing your nails and crushed by loneliness.
You were meant to inhale those smoky nights
over a bottle of flat beer, to sweep stuck onion rings
across the dirty restaurant floor, to wear the frayed
coat with its loose buttons, its pockets full of struck matches.
You’ve walked those streets a thousand times and still
you end up here. Regret none of it, not one
of the wasted days you wanted to know nothing,
when the lights from the carnival rides
were the only stars you believed in, loving them
for their uselessness, not wanting to be saved.
You’ve traveled this far on the back of every mistake,
ridden in dark-eyed and morose but calm as a house
after the TV set has been pitched out the upstairs
window. Harmless as a broken ax. Emptied
of expectation. Relax. Don’t bother remembering any of it.
Let’s stop here, under the lit sign
on the corner, and watch all the people walk by.”
Source: The Book of Men
“Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.”
Source: Delphi Complete Works of Rafael Sabatini (Illustrated)
“Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility.”
“Regret Roulette by Stewart Stafford
Evening's breath caressed in,
Across a mind's cracked land,
On raven's wing in twilight air,
A doused flame's colder hand.
Dead-end gallery of exit signs,
Contrition's dog whistle song,
Eye of Horus in a looking glass,
Blindfolds of a corrupted throng.
Feral brunch on a sheepish plate,
The curate's egg fried with shell,
Bellini confession, in vino veritas,
Burnt offerings to show-and-tell.
© Stewart Stafford, 2024. All rights reserved.”
“Regret rules over the past, hope rules over the future.”
“Regret swallows broken men whole. Acceptance builds them anew.”
Source: Stunned
“Regret: the most corrosive horror.”
Source: No One Gets Out Alive
“Regret, to no end, in every hour
Of a long life. What beautiful work
Will redeem the heartbeats of a living creature
And what use to confess deeds that last forever?”
“Regret was the ham in the back of the deli that caused people to switch from turkey to roast beef.”
Source: The Undoing Project: A Friendship That Changed Our Minds
“Regret was the worst.
Regret was sour and bitter, and it tasted so close to the truth she had to fight sinking into it.”
Source: Once Upon a Broken Heart
“Regret what? That secret operation was an excellent idea. It had the effect of drawing the Russians into the Afghan trap and you want me to regret it? The day that the Soviets officially crossed the border, I wrote to President Carter. We now have the opportunity of giving to the USSR its Vietnam war. Indeed, for almost 10 years, Moscow had to carry on a war unsupportable by the government, a conflict that brought about the demoralization and finally the breakup of the Soviet empire.”
“Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.”
Source: Middlesex
“Regret, Daisy knew, was the only confirmation of a well-lived life. If you didn't occasionally go too far, you weren't going anywhere.”
“Regret, is usually a waste of time. As is gloating”
“Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.”
“Regret; The saddest word in the English language.”
“Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.”
Source: Dear John
“Regrets and Mistakes, they're Memories made”
“Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.”
Source: Hammer
“Regrets are a sinkhole. You are walking on a field of flowers, expecting solid ground, where all at once there is none and with your disappointed expectations you are being swallowed by what lies beneath you, until you cannot see it anymore: not the field of flowers and neither the path you have been walking on.”
“Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!”
“Regrets are a waste of time. They're the past crippling you in the present.”
“Regrets are about decisions that you know you should have done different.”
Source: Bullet: An Anita Blake, Vampire Hunter Novel
“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints.”
“Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. Discarding what is vain or false, facing the facts that should truly disturb your conscience, is worth whatever time it takes or pain it may cause. It can pay to the future what you owe to the past.”
“Regrets are born of paths never taken.”
“Regrets are for losers. What's done is done, and there's no point in wishing for anything else.”
Source: The Gospel of Loki
“Regrets are for wusses.”
Source: There's No Place Like Home
“Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.”
Source: The Complete Works of Charles Dudley Warner
“Regrets are not punishments, but unfinished, unspoken sentences are.”
Source: YOU DON’T WANT TO DIE: Life Renews in the Depths of Despair
“Regrets are only felt by those who do not understand life's purpose.”
“Regrets are ridiculous, so I don’t regret, no.”
“Regrets are sinkholes. You are walking on a field of flowers, expecting solid ground, where all at once there is none and with your disappointed expectations you are being swallowed by what lies beneath you, until you cannot see it anymore: not the field of flowers and neither the path you have been walking on.”
“Regrets are so far from reality.”
“Regrets are stupid; they don't mean anything and they don't add up to anything.”
“Regrets are the last words you speak to your loved ones when you die and the one thing we all fear when we live. I'd rather regret the things I've done and said than regret the things I haven't done or said. It is all the experiences and people you missed out on in life that you will feel the most regretful for in the end. God will forgive you of your mistakes, but there is nothing to forgive if you have never even tried, done or said anything that made a difference in your life or others.”