166 Love Regret Quotes

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Famous Love Regret Quotes

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Mangnu Hirschfield

Love is a conflict between reflexes and reflections. — Magnus Hirschfeld

such fickle days of love when pain and ecstasy share the same hour — Richard Paul Evans

Somewhere between love and hate lies confusion, misunderstanding and desperate hope. — Shannon Alder

Love is full of anxious fears. — Ovid

What is love but a prelude to sorrow...with heartache ahead for your goal. — Nina Simone

Love is a promise; love is a souvenir. — John Lennon

Love insists the loved loves back — Dante Alighieri

Where there is love, there is bound to be heartache. — Elif Safak

Love is like a rubber band, Both pull on, one release And it hurts the person who has held it. — Lil Wayne

The agony of lovers burns with the fire of passion. Lovers leave traces of where they've been. The wailing of broken hearts is the doorway to God. — Rumi

Love hurts more than hate. - Michael Todd

Love hurts more than hate. — Michael Todd

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul. — Yasmina Khadra

Love, that is day and night - love, that is sun and moon and stars, Love, that is crimson, sumptuous, sick with perfume, no other words but words of love, no other thought but love. — Walt Whitman

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. - Big Pun

Better to have loved and lost than to live with regret. — Big Pun

Short Love Regret Quotes

  • Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. — Jonathan Larson
  • Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible. — Elizabeth Bowen
  • Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. — Saint Augustine
  • The sweetest joy, the wildest woe is love. — Pearl Bailey
  • Pleasure of love lasts but a moment, Pain of love lasts a lifetime. — Bette Davis
  • The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. — Gabriel Garcia Marquez
  • Love until it hurts. Real love is always painful and hurts: then it is real and pure. — Mother Teresa
  • Love was like a toothache. — Eiji Yoshikawa
  • I think you have to pay for love with bitter tears. — Edith Piaf
  • Sweet is true love that is given in vain, and sweet is death that takes away pain. — Alfred Lord Tennyson

Love Regret Image Quotes

Love regret quote Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love
Your mind will always believe everything you tell it. Feed it hope. Feed it truth. Feed it with love.

Lost Love Regret Quotes

Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone. — Jerome K. Jerome

I've lost loved ones in my life who never knew how much I loved them. Now I live with the regret that my true feelings for them never were revealed. — Garth Brooks

Love is... what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona? — Ma-Roo

Love regret quote Never regret anything that made you smile.
Never regret anything that made you smile.

Moments, when lost, can't be found again. They're just gone. — Jenny Han

I am fifty years old and I have never known what it is to love. I can write those words, know them to be true, but feel only the regret that a tone-deaf man must feel because he can't appreicate music, a regret less keen because it is for something never known, not for something lost. — P. D. James

They always say it is better to have loved and lost and all that, so no I don't think I have any regrets, and I have always been there for all of my kids no matter what. — Mark Goddard

Never Regret Love Quotes

Life is short, Break the Rules. Forgive quickly, Kiss slowly. Love truly. Laugh uncontrollably And never regret ANYTHING That makes you smile. — Mark Twain

Remember: Life is short, break the rules — James Dean

Anything worth having is hard to keep, I love you like my coffee, so hot and so sweet. So, let's stick it out so we never regret it, I could forgive the past-but I never forget it. — Ghostface Killah

Love regret quote The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measur
The secret to living well and longer is: eat half, walk double, laugh triple and love without measure.

I don't understand this phrase 'I've paid my dues.' We didn't have any money and lived on peanut butter and jelly, and I loved it. I don't regret any of it. We never expected to make it this far, but we worked hard to get here. — Ronnie Van Zant

I regret if my actions hurt anyone or harmed the United States. It was never my intent to hurt anyone. When I chose to disclose classified information, I did so out of a love for my country and a sense of duty to others. — Chelsea Manning

You have to take the good with the bad, smile when you're sad, love what you've got and remember what you had...Always forgive but never forget, learn from your mistakes but never regret, people change, things go wrong, just remember, life goes on. — Unknown Author

Love regret quote Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.
Everyone comes with baggage. Find someone who loves you enough to help you unpack.

Out of love, No regrets-- Though the goodness Be wasted forever. Out of love, No regrets-- Though the return Be never. — Langston Hughes

Life is short, break the rules. — Mark Twain

Most people’s major life regrets are not about the things they’ve done, but about the things they’ve not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they’d been but know they failed to be. — Thom Hartmann

I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them. — Nora Ephron

Regret To Love You Quotes

This life is what you make it. Not matter what, you're going to mess up sometimes, it's a universal truth. — Marilyn Monroe

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Listen Hard. Practice wellness. Play with abandon. Laugh. Choose with no regret. Appreciate your friends. Continue to learn. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher

Love means never having to say you're sorry. However, it is with sincere regret that I must now kill all of you. — Barnabas

Love regret quote How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.
How lucky I am to have something that makes saying goodbye so hard.

I need you to know that no matter what happens, it was worth it to me. Being with you, loving you. It was all worth it — Sayings

Live with intention. Walk to the edge. Do what you love. Live as if this is all there is. — Mary Anne Radmacher

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist. — Jenny Han

Love regret quote If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.
If I cut you off chances are you handed me the scissors.

Lend your voices only to sounds of freedom, no longer lend your strength to that which you wish to be free from. Fill your life with love and bravery, and you shall live a life uncommon. — Jewel

Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not. — Christy Chung

You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. — Mary Matalin

Words can break someone into a million pieces, but they can also put them back together. I hope you use yours for good, because the only words you'll regret more than the ones left unsaid are the ones you use to intentionally hurt someone. — Taylor Swift

Life Regret Quotes

I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave. — Rick Ross

Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted. — Marilyn Monroe

I don't do regrets. Regrets are pointless. It's too late for regrets. You've already done it, haven't you? You've lived your life. No point wishing you could change it. — Lemmy Kilmister

Love regret quote To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.
To love a person is to see all of their magic, and to remind them of it when they have forgotten.

Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets. — Leonardo da Vinci

To regret the past, to hope in the future, and never to be satisfied with the present: that is what I spend my whole life doing — Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky

At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent. — Barbara Bush

Love regret quote Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.
Take a lover who looks at you like maybe you are magic.

Get correct views of life, and learn to see the world in its true light. It will enable you to live pleasantly, to do good, and, when summoned away, to leave without regret. — Robert E. Lee

Be bold and courageous. When you look back on your life, you'll regret the things you didn't do more than the ones you did. — H. Jackson Brown, Jr.

You have this one life. How do you wanna spend it? Apologizing? Regretting? Questioning? Hating yourself? Dieting? Running after people who don't see you? Be brave. Believe in yourself. Do what feels good. Take risks. You have this one life. Make yourself proud. — Cara Delevingne

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. - Nathan Hale

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. — Nathan Hale

No Regret Quotes

Do not waste one moment in regret, for to think feelingly of the mistakes of the past is to re-infect yourself. — Neville Goddard

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. - Jimmy Buffett

Be yourself, be pleasant, play hard and have no regrets. — Jimmy Buffett

If you have confidence in your own words, aspirations, thoughts, and actions and do your very best, you will have no need to regret the outcome of what you do. Fear and trembling are lot of the person who, while stinting effort, hopes that everything will come out precisely as he wants. — Mas Oyama

Love regret quote I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.
I hope to arrive to my death, late, in love and a little drunk.

Live fast, fight hard, no regrets! — John Cena

Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. — Henry A Kissinger

A life totally committed to God has nothing to fear, nothing to lose, nothing to regret. — Pandita Ramabai

Love regret quote The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting
The most painful thing is losing yourself in the process of loving someone too much, and forgetting that you are special too.

Accept everything about yourself -- I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end -- no apologies, no regrets. — Clark Moustakas

I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure — Conor Oberst

In a world where death is the hunter, my friend, there is no time for regrets or doubts. There is only time for decisions. — Carlos Castaneda

To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it… it’s over. It can hurt you no more. — Mandy Hale

I Regret Quotes

I never regret my past... Only time I wasted was on the wrong people. — Tyga

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't. - Lucille Ball

I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't. — Lucille Ball

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. - Grace Kelly

I avoid looking back. I prefer good memories to regrets. — Grace Kelly

Love regret quote Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.
Let the beauty of what you love be what you do.

I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying. — Jeff Bezos

I do nothing I regret, man, because I try to do nothing abominable. As long as there is not an abomination, there is nothing to regret, you understand? — Peter Tosh

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. - Wiz Khalifa

I don't regret my past, I just regret the time I've wasted on the wrong people. — Wiz Khalifa

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me. — Zachary Taylor

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so. — Ray Stannard Baker [David Grayson]

I apologize to the women I’ve hurt. I deeply regret what I did and know that it has forever impacted all of our lives. — Dr. Dre

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. - Adolf Eichmann

To sum it all up, I must say that I regret nothing. — Adolf Eichmann

Deep Regret Quotes

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. - Nido R Qubein

The price of discipline is always less than the pain of regret. — Nido R Qubein

Dear as remembered kisses after death, And sweet as those by hopeless fancy feign'd On lips that are for others; deep as love, Deep as first love, and wild with all regret; O Death in Life, the days that are no more! — Alfred Lord Tennyson

That single thought is enough. The impulse increases to a wish, the wish to a desire, the desire to an uncontrollable longing, and the longing (to the deep regret and mortification of the speaker, and in defiance of all consequences,) is indulged. — Edgar Allan Poe

She stood a moment before my eyes, clearly and painfully, loved and deeply woven into my destiny; then fell away again in a deep oblivion, at a half regretted distance. — Hermann Hesse

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep. — Sun Myung Moon

I see only with deep regret that God punishes so many of His children for their numerous stupidities, for which only He Himself can be held responsible; in my opinion, only His nonexistence could excuse Him. — Albert Einstein

It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed. — Henry Addington

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. — Conrad Veidt

My mum and dad aren't together, but she plays a massive part in my life. We have deep conversations: I tell her where I need support, where I feel she's lacking, and I support her with whatever she needs. I understand she won't be here forever, and I want no regrets. — Anthony Joshua

We should develop a deep appreciation for all the we have, and not waste it, otherwise we'll die with deep regrets. — Tenzin Palmo

Regret Nothing Quotes

The perfect man uses his mind as a mirror. It grasps nothing. It regrets nothing. It receives but does not keep. — Zhuangzi

Safety isn't just an illusion, it's a cop-out. I know it sounds trite, but there's simply nothing like a near-death experience to remind one of the impermanence of everything. And living imprisoned by fear only to die with regret over dreams postponed was a life neither of us was interested in. — Rich Roll

Happiness is that state when nothing is missing. When nothing is missing, your mind shuts down and your mind stops running into the future or running into the past to regret something or to plan something. — Naval Ravikant

Tomorrow night is nothing but one long sleepless wrestle with yesterday's omissions and regrets. — William Faulkner

I have no regrets. I have spent my life, so much of it, building up this country. There's nothing more that I need to do. At the end of the day, what have I got? A successful Singapore. What have I given up? My life. — Lee Kuan Yew

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

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. — Jimi Hendrix

I regret nothing, but I am sorry that I am about to leave my friends. — Zachary Taylor

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime — Edwin Louis Cole

Time is man's most precious asset. All men neglect it; all regret the loss of it; nothing can be done without it. — Voltaire

Past Regrets Quotes

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. - Jean Plaidy

Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience. — Jean Plaidy

Leave aside your regrets of the past and anxieties of the future And focus intelligently on the present. This is the best way of ensuring a positive future. — Chinmayananda Saraswati

Humans can't live in the present, like animals do. Humans are always thinking about the future or the past. So it's a veil of tears, man. I don't know anything that's going to benefit me now, except love. I just need an overwhelming amount of love. And a nap. Mostly a nap. — Townes Van Zandt

If we spend our time obsessing with the future or regretting the past, then we will never live. Tomorrow will always be tomorrow and yesterday cannot be changed. — Jon Foreman

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either. — Mick Jagger

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. — Sivananda

Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future. — Sri Swami Sivananda

Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future. — Fulton Oursler

Comfort eating on negativity will make you unhealthy and mental weight is the hardest to lose. For a healthy mind, burn off grudges, regrets about your past, irrational worries about the future, ingratitude and limiting beliefs that are holding your potential hostage. — Steven Bartlett

Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears. — Omar Khayyam

Regret And Mistake Quotes

Three enemies of personal peace: regret over yesterday’s mistakes, anxiety over tomorrow’s problems, and ingratitude for today’s blessings. — William Arthur Ward

I am the author of my life. Unfortunately, I am writing in pen and can’t erase my mistakes. — Bill Kaulitz

We can never judge the lives of others, because each person knows only their own pain and renunciation. It's one thing to feel that you are on the right path, but it's another to think that yours is the only path. — Paulo Coelho

Well, we all make mistakes, dear, so just put it behind you. We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us. — L.M. Montgomery

I don't think we should ever regret anything we do. I think we have to accept the consequences and you learn from your mistakes, and that's how you grow as a person — Marilyn Manson

You make your own kinds of mistakes, and I’m sure you’ll have your share of regrets in life. But commitment was never your problem, sweetie. You have a better chance of making this work than most forty-year-olds I know. My little middle-aged child. Luckily, you seem to have found another old soul. — Stephenie Meyer

Problems, weaknesses, setbacks, regrets and mistakes teach you if you're willing to learn, or they punish you if you're not. — Ralph Marston

A sign of the death of the heart: lack of sadness about beneficial actions you have missed, and lack of regret about your mistakes. — Ibn Ata Allah

The wonderful thing about saints is that they were human. They lost their tempers, got hungry, scolded God, were egotistical or impatient in their turns, made mistakes and regretted them. Still they went on doggedly blundering toward heaven. — Phyllis Mcginley

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused. — Jack Abramoff

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More Love Regret Quotes

Life is too short to wake up with regrets. So love the people who treat you right. Forget about those who don’t. Believe everything happens for a reason. If you get a chance, take it. If it changes your life, let it. Nobody said life would be easy, they just promised it would most likely be worth it. — Harvey Mackay

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

Victory is a thousand times sweeter when you're the underdog. — Jenny Han

The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee. — Emily Dickinson

When to give grace? I'd rather stand before God knowing I loved others too much rather than regretting that I judged too harshly. — Lysa TerKeurst

Each day you must choose, the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. — Eric Mangini

Sensitive people either love deeply or they regret deeply. There really is no middle ground because they live in passionate extremes. — Shannon Alder

The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love — Kahlil Gibran

Would you rather live one perfect day over and over or live your life with no perfect days but just decent ones? — Jenny Han

The beauty of life is, while we cannot undo what is done, we can see it, understand it, learn from it and change. So that every new moment is spent not in regret, guilt, fear or anger, but in wisdom, understanding and love. — Jennifer Edwards

There is no distance on this earth as far away as yesterday. — Robert Nathan

A man's age is something impressive, it sums up his life: maturity reached slowly and against many obstacles, illnesses cured, griefs and despairs overcome, and unconscious risks taken; maturity formed through so many desires, hopes, regrets, forgotten things, loves. A man's age represents a fine cargo of experience and memories. — Antoine de Saint-Exupery

If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world. — Mercedes Lackey

We all lose sometimes. We fail to get what we want. Friends and loved ones leave. We make a decision we regret. We try our hardest and come up short. It's not the losing that defines us. It's how we lose. It's what we do afterward. — Scott Jurek

'He's the most charming man. He's the Oscar Wilde of our time. I only had one moment with him in that film and it's a great source of regret. I love spending time with him. He's always very open and effusive. His interest in you is genuine.' — Russell Crowe

Be thankful for every day. Learn from mistakes. Don't dwell on regrets. Forgive with love. Gain strength from every struggle. — Nicky Gumbel

Regrets are as personal as fingerprints. — Margaret Culkin Banning

Love childhood, indulge its sports, its pleasures, its delightful instincts. Who has not sometimes regretted that age when laughter was ever on the lips, and when the heart was ever at peace? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

It's the imperfections that make things beautiful. — Jenny Han

Only a fool wants war, but once a war starts then it cannot be fought half-heartedly. It cannot even be fought with regret, but must be waged with a savage joy in defeating the enemy, and it is that savage joy that inspires our bards to write their greatest songs about love and war. — Bernard Cornwell

We stood there, looking at each other, saying nothing. But it was the kind of nothing that meant everything. — Sayings

Live with no excuses and love with no regrets. — Montel Williams

In terms of days and moments lived, you'll never again be as young as you are right now, so spend this day, the youth of your future, in a way that deflects regret. Invest in yourself. Have some fun. Do something important. Love somebody extra. In one sense, you're just a kid, but a kid with enough years on her to know that every day is priceless. — Victoria Moran

I love life. I wish I could live another 500 years, truly. There is so much to do. I don't feel bitter or angry or disappointed. If anything, I am very grateful for where I come from. I have absolutely no regrets. — Waris Dirie

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it's a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret. — Richard Dawkins

He didn't give me flowers or candy. He gave me the moon and the stars. Infinity. — Jenny Han

When one door closes another door opens. Usually a refrigerator. — Bonnie McFarlane

Your first duty is to be humane. Love childhood. Look with friendly eyes on its games, its pleasures, its amiable dispositions. Which of you does not sometimes look back regretfully on the age when laughter was ever on the lips and the heart free of care? Why steal from the little innocents the enjoyment of a time that passes all too quickly? — Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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