The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it—as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back.
—Lauren Barnholdt in Getting Close
As I grow older , I regret to say that a detestable habit of thinking seems to be getting a hold of me.
—H. Rider Haggard
There was something so heavy about the burden of history, of the past. I wasn't sure I had it in me to keep looking back.
—Sarah Dessen in Just Listen
Crying is all right in its own way while it lasts. But you have to stop sooner or later, and then you still have to decide what to do.
—C. S. Lewis
People's reaction to me is sometimes "Uch, I just don't like her. I hate how she thinks she is so great." But it's not that I think I'm so great. I just don't hate myself. I do idiotic things all the time and I say crazy stuff I regret, but I don't let everything traumatize me. And the scary thing I have noticed is that some people really feel uncomfortable around women who don't hate themselves. So that's why you need to be a little bit brave.
—Mindy Kaling in Why Not Me?
Love doesn't come along too often. Believe me, I know. When it does, only the foolish let it fade.
—H.M. Ward in Demon Kissed
I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.
—J.D. Robb in Innocent in Death
When we grow old, there can only be one regret—not to have given enough of ourselves.
—Eleonora Duse
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
—Virgil Thomson
I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us.
—Kristin Hannah in The Nightingale
I have no regrets. To regret my past would be to admit I am not satisfied with who or what I have become.
—Scott Hildreth in Finding Parker
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there… haunting you. The what-ifs.
—Elin Hilderbrand in The Matchmaker
Most of the time, everyone deserves more than one chance. We all do things we regret now and then.
—Celeste Ng in Little Fires Everywhere