Regret Quote by Émile Zola

“For much of my life, I existed in a condition of regret, a regret that was contemporaneous with experience, and which sometimes preceded experience.”

— Greg Baxter

“Having a worst regret betrays your belief that one misstep caused all your undeserved misfortune.”

— Sarah Manguso

“Mistakes and regret, desease and death...ain't recognized by mind that capable on changing them into otherwise.”

— Toba Beta

“I wonder what causes you most regret, in the final years of your life: the undone things-- or the things you did that you…

— Margaret Leroy

“Only in hindsight can we see that out fears and worries were unwarranted, that insecurities and doubts were just illussions, or that we should…

— Ellyn Spragins

“All that remains is regret for what might have been. It is like standing in the ashes of a fire you once approached to…

— Elizabeth Chadwick

“You can't get stuck on the regrets of what should have happened”

— Mitch Albom

“I thought that might have been the worst thing about losing someone, that moment between asleep and awake, when you had to remember and…

— R.K. Lilley

“The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.”

— Jeanette Winterson

“it’s not what you’ve done that will fill you with regret, but what you haven’t done?”

— Debbie Macomber

“Let regret rewind your past and let secret remind your last. Regret is your blessing but secret is your suffering.”

— Aram Seriteratai

“The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.”

— Michael Chabon