•“Sometimes I wish life was written pencil so we could erase it and write it all over again.” 
― Thisuri Wanniarachchi

•“Never regret trusting someone. It proves you have a heart. But if he turns out to be a lying worm I'm not going to waste my time crying. Because I am way too fabulous for that.” 
― Jude Watson

•“Speak when you're angry, and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.” 
― Lawrence J. Peters

•“Never look back unless you are planning to go that way.” 
― Henry David Thoreau

•“Never do today what you can do tomorrow. Something may occur to make you regret your premature action.” 
― Aaron Burr 

•“Whatever you want, at any moment, someone else is getting it. Whatever you have, someone else is longing for.” 
― Laura Lippman

•“Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.” 
― Benjamin Disraeli 

•“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.” 
― Katherine Mansfield

•“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” 
― Fulton Oursler  

•“The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.” 
― Jonathan Safran Foer

•“Sorry I painted the word 'twat' on your garage door.” 
― David Shrigley

•“Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.” 
― L. Ron Hubbard 

•“Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done” 
― Chad Michael Murray

•“I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.” 
― Rory Cochrane 

•“I question the moral integrity of anyone who says they have no regrets.”
― Michel Templet

•“Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.” 
― Jonathan Larson

•“Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.” 
― Laura Kasischke

•“It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.” 
― Jackie Joyner-Kersee 

•“My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.” 
― Jodi Picoult

•“If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?” 
― Jos Saramago

•“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.” 
― Basil Rathbone 

•“The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.” 
― Oscar Wilde

•“When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.” 
― Grace Slick 

•“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” 
― Sydney Smith

•“I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.” 
― Lucille Ball 

•“No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.” 
― Holly Black

•“I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.” 
― Mike Carey

•“I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.” 
― Julian Barnes

•“The greatest regret is being what others would want you to be rather than being yourself.” 
― Shannon L. Alder

•“Every step towards your dream today is a step away from your regret tomorrow.” 
― Steve Maraboli

•“When your only regret is if anyone thinks you regret anything - that is the definition of conviction.” 
― Criss Jami

•“Opportunities are rare in this life, and fairness, rarer still. So, when you discover a fair opportunity, go after as if it were your last because it very well might be.” 
― Joel T. McGrath

•“But harboring regrets is making love to the past, and there is no movement here.” 
― Terry Tempest Williams

•“Regrets of the past can be turned into seeds to grow a more positive future or unlearned, doomed to repeat the same.” 
― Tambr Bryant

•“It was no good to look back, to apologize for what had happened, or to wonder what could have been different.” 
― Lily Blake

•“We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” 
― Lucy Maud Montgomery 

•“You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.” 
― Madeleine L'Engle