Looking for regret quotes in relationship and love? We have rounded up the best relationship regret quotes, sayings, captions, status messages, (with images and pictures) to inspire you to do or say things which you need to in your relationship so that you do not regret it later.
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We often regret the words not said, the chances not taken, the love not expressed. Communication gap in relationship often lead to misunderstandings and distance which may ruin your relations. Once you realize the differences, and your mistake you may regret your actions. But life does not always give a chance to rectify mistakes, so the sooner your realize the better.
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We have divided these deep quotes into the following sections;
- Relationship Regret Quotes
- Love Regret Quotes
- Life Regret Quotes
Relationship Regret Quotes
- “I’m the type of person you’ll regret losing.”
- “Never regret something that once made you smile.”
- “Just because I let you go doesn’t mean I wanted to.”
- “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take.”
- “Its like I’m waiting for you to realize what you let go of.”
- “It hurts a lot when things are not going how you want it.”
- “One bad relationship could make you never fall in love again.”
- “Sometimes I want to go back in time and punch myself in the face.”
- “Never regret anything because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.”
- “I spent too long making someone a priority for whom I was only an option.”
- “The simple fact is: sometimes you do regret the people you let into your life.”
- “Having regrets is sad; it is a nightmare, something that keeps on coming back.”
- “I don’t regret my past, I just regret the time I’ve wasted with the wrong people.”
- “Never regret. If it’s good, it’s wonderful. If it’s bad, it’s experience.” – Victoria Holt
- “You were my what if, the one who got away, the person I wished could have stayed.”
- “Everyone has regrets, for the things they did or the things that they chose not to do.”
- “Forget about the future, what matters is the now, you need to make the right decision.”
- “You can’t blame someone for walking away if you didn’t do anything to make them stay.”
- “I wouldn’t say I regret anything. I would say I just wish I did things better.” – Greg Oden
- “I am still wondering how I am ever going to live my life knowing you are not in it anymore.”
- “One day, you’re going to look back and think about us, and wonder why you let it slip away.”
- “It’s better to look ahead and prepare, than to look back and regret.” – Jackie Joyner-Kersee
- “I made a mistake, now I’m living with the consequences. I regret it, I really do. And I’m sorry.”
- “Never give up on something you really want. It’s difficult to wait but it’s more difficult to regret.”
- “Regrets are the worst things in this world, to wish for something impossible: to bring back time.”
- “Before you let someone go, make sure its a choice you won’t regret. Not everything can be undone.”
- “A great relationship is about two things, first, find out the similarities, second, respect the differences.”
- “It takes only a moment to say you love someone, but a lifetime of regret if you let the moment slip away.”
- “Relationships work best when you drop excess luggage from the past and live life forward with no regrets.”
- “My dad used to say that living with regrets was like driving a car that only moved in reverse.” – Jodi Picoult
- “When we grow old, there can only be one regret – not to have given enough of ourselves.” – Eleonora Duse
- “Regret doesn’t remind us that we did badly. It reminds us that we know we can do better.” – Kathryn Schulz
- “No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future.” – Umar ibn Al-Khattab
- “Always tell someone how you feel, because opportunities are lost in the blink of an eye but regret can last for a lifetime.”
- “Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.” – Basil Rathbone
- “One day you’re going to remember me and how much I loved you and then you’re going to hate yourself for letting me go.”
- “I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don’t know what the alternative would have been.”- Juliet Stevenson
- “I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end.” – Drew Barrymore
- “The biggest regret in relationship is not feeling happy about it and realizing it after so many years.” – Hrishikesh Zinjarde
- “Sometimes I regret being nice, apologizing when I didn’t do anything wrong, and for making unworthy people a priority in my life.”
- “Just because something ends doesn’t mean it never should’ve been. Remember, you lived, you learned, you grew and you moved on.”
- “We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.” – Lucy Maud Montgomery
- “In the end, we only regret the chances we didn’t take, relationship we are afraid to have, and the decisions we waited too long to make.”
- “The worst regret we have in life, is not for the wrong things we did, but for the thousands of right things we did, for the wrong people…!!”
- “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 J. Harris
- “An honest person will do any and everything to make their relationship work. That’s why they almost never regret it when it’s time to walk away.”
- “The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again I’d make all the same mistakes – only sooner.” – Tallulah Bankhead
- “There is no need to lament on the bygone failures, instead concentrate on things that you can change and let other things take their own course.” – Robert Gallagher
- “I’m living with every step. I can’t live with regret. The past is the past. I’m not worried about it. I can’t change it. I can’t fix it. It is what it is. I’m just living.” – Ryan Sheckler
- “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
- “Never regret anything from your past because one day, you’ll look back and thank it for hurting you so much that you decided to become a stronger human being.” – Faith Star
- “We cannot always change what has happened to us, but we can change how we react and how we live in the future. Living with no regrets is living successfully.” – Dr. Ellen Taricani
- “Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.” – Henry David Thoreau
- “In the end, I’ll regret all the chances I didn’t take with you. I’ll regret all the moments I let slip by. I’ll regret all the times I hid my feelings from you. And in end, my biggest regret was losing you.”- Mahmoud El Hallab
- “Don’t you ever regret knowing someone in your life….good people will give you happiness…bad people will give you experience…while the worst people will give you a lesson…and the best people will you memories.”
- “I don’t talk about my past; people ask me about it. I’ve done things I’m ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I’ve done that I regret, I’ve never done twice. I work really hard at that.” – Art Alexakis
- “We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.” – Steve Maraboli
- “We don’t have to be defined by the things we did or didn’t do in our past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it’s a regret, maybe it’s not. It’s merely something that happened. Get over it.” – Pittacus Lore
- “Do not let that girl go…you only get once great girl in your life. You might have other good girls too but only one great girl that you will never forget for the rest of your life I promise you. Do not let that great girl go and do whatever it takes to keep her cause you’ll regret letting her walk away.”
- “Someday you will look back and be overwhelmed with emotion. You will drown in a pool filled with the terrible things you have done to me. The words “please forgive me” will consume your soul and you will wish all of your days that you could just tell me one more time. But time will have taken me. I will be nowhere to be found.” – Brian Holter
Love Regret Quotes
- “There comes a time when you can only revise what happened in your head.”
- “I thought we were going to last forever, so why are you not here beside me?”
- “Forget about that close door, and focus on the open one or you might regret it.”
- “When the person we love gets out of our grasp, we tend to shed tears of regrets.”
- “Tell the person you love what you feel about him before you regret not doing so.”
- “When regrets eat you up inside, you die not to the naked eye but your soul does.”
- “Maybe tomorrow the regrets I carry will be a whole lot lighter than it is right now.”
- “These tears I shed are tears of grief, of sadness, of the things that could have been.”
- “The past is done, do not let it continue to your future, do not let it decide the now.”
- “Sometimes, forgetting is the best gift you can give yourself to let go of your regrets.”
- “Maybe the answer has been right in front of you all along, you just did not notice it.”
- “It is what happens after you make a choice that hurts you, that makes you regret it.”
- “Sometimes you just need to give it everything you have to not regret anything at all.”
- “The past is done, so put everything behind you because you can never bring it back.”
- “Make sure that you are going to be smiling once you decide to look back at your past.”
- “Maybe someday, you will realize that what really matters is that you are done with it.”
- “Eventually, your decisions come to a bigger picture, and you will be happier for them.”
- “I am still hoping that there will come a time when I do not feel all these regrets I have.”
- “I just want to shut myself from the world and forget about the wrongs that I had done.”
- “Sometimes I am wishing for a time machine, to carry me back to the regrets of my life.”
- “The thing I regret the most was falling in love with you only to fall out of love later on.”
- “People usually do not recognize what is important in their life until it is already too late.”
- “These tears are not of regret, they are of sadness for the people who could have been here.”
- “Stop living with regrets, they are very bad roommates; they would never let you be at peace.”
- “Forget about the regrets that you have right now and only think of the possibilities to come.”
- “History is nothing but a regret, of the things we can never change, of the times that are done.”
- “Tell her you love her now that you have the chance because you might regret not doing so later.”
- “If your past comes back, remember the things that you have right now and why they are worth it.”
- “The mistakes have been done, it can never be erased but it can definitely be buried under the ground.”
- “As long as you are happy with your life, the regrets you have will feel small to the point that it would not matter at all.”
Life Regret Quotes
- “The biggest regret you will ever concur is letting go of someone you love.”
- “The only difference is that people have different ways of handling regrets.”
- “Just give it your all, just love what you are doing and the regrets can come later.”
- “At one point in your life, you love this decision, you choose this, you wanted this.”
- “Life is short to keep living it with regrets so try your best to make yourself forget.”
- “Life is going to be full of surprises, so just keep being surprised and forget regrets.”
- “No man has no regrets, it is one of those things in life that we all have in common.”
- “What is the point in regretting this if back at that moment you have decided to do this?”
- “I’d rather regret the things I’ve done than regret the things I haven’t done.” – Lucille Ball
- “That feeling of regret when time passes and you realize you’ve let the wrong person go…”
- “Think of mistakes as detours to your success; know that things will be better in the future.”
- “If you keep on regretting the things that are done, you will just keep on wasting your time.”
- “Spend some time with the people you love so that you would not have any regrets later on.”
- “Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today and you make your tomorrow.” – L. Ron Hubbard
- “I hate how regret messes people up, makes them drive mad, makes them unhappy of their life.”
- “Do better things that will help you to cover up or erase all the regrets that you have in your life.”
- “I have no regrets about this relationship but I promise letting me go will be yours…”- Alexis Oden
- “I don’t regret meeting you, I regret letting you into my heart only to have you break it.”- Rashida Rowe
- “The longer our trail of regrets, the more we tend to value the importance of making wise decisions.” – Bob Santos
- “Regret is such a terrible feeling but I don’t regret the love, the hurt, the moments…just regret I didn’t see this coming.”
- “Don’t waste your time in anger, regrets, worries, and grudges. Life is too short to be unhappy.” – Roy T. Bennett
- “Wanting her is hard to forget, loving her is hard to regret, losing her is hard to accept, but letting go is the most painful.”
- “One day you’re gonna remember me, and remember how much I loved you…then you’re gonna regret letting me go.”- Drake
- “One of the greatest regrets in life is being what others would want you to be, rather than being yourself.” – Shannon L. Alder
- “I’m trying to make myself better. But I don’t regret anything that I’ve gone through, because it makes me who I am.” – Nick Carter
- “I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences… I’m human, not perfect, like anybody else.” – Queen Latifah
- “While his life will be filled with nothing but regret for letting you go, yours will be filled with nothing but happiness for walking away.”
- “In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.” – Stefan Zweig
- “Sometimes, no matter how much you want something, you have to just give up. It just ain’t worth the hassle or heartache. One day, they’ll regret what they lost.”- Sarah Moores
- “There is nothing I’ve been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened – personally and professionally – I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.” – Sheryl Swoopes
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