Quotes About Regret

I do not regret getting married nor do I regret getting divorced.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

You'd think, 'What if I make a mistake today, I'll regret it'. I don’t believe in regret, I feel everything leads us to where we are and we have to just jump forward, mean well, commit and just see what happens.

But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

I quit the Knicks so I know what quitting is, I did. I quit. And it's something I regret to this day. I live with it every day and I regret it. And I let my emotions come into it. And I was just emotionally spent. I made a bad decision and I quit.

Sometimes things come out of your mouth that you regret later on. Or no, not regret. You say something so razor-sharp that the person you say it to carries it around with them for the rest of their life.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

No. I don’t regret it. It wasn’t the right thing to do, but I don’t regret it. - Toni

Pack a pillow and blanket and see as much of the world as you can.You will not regret it.

I don't think anybody should regret the choices they made in their twenties.

I'd love to do a golf movie. I turned down Don Johnson's role in 'Tin Cup.' I regret that.

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.

I do not regret the folly of my youth, but the timidity.

We must repeat the often repeated saying, that it is unworthy a religious man to view an irreligious one either with alarm or aversion, or with any other feeling than regret and hope and brotherly commiseration.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

You didn't want to die. Most mortals don't, even if they find themselves in as desolate and soul-destroying a spot as you. Almost all of those who take their own lives wish at the last moment that they hadn't. They see at the end how much they've given up, how precious life is, even when it's treated them like dirt and crushed their dreams. Many think they've passed beyond hope, but they never really have, not until they pass beyond life itself. Alas, that knowledge comes too late for most would-be-suicides and they die with regret. Very few are offered the chance that you have been handed.

Many new churches, I regret to say, can be described from the design point of view only as holy terrors.

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

I thought instead of a good rule for survival on Wall Street: Never agree to anything proposed on someone else's boat or you'll regret in in the morning.

Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.

One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.

The words you'll most regret Are the ones that are left unsaid.

I regret exceedingly that the disputes between the protestants and Roman Catholics should be carried to the serious alarming height mentioned in your letters. Religious controversies are always productive of more acrimony and irreconcilable hatreds than those which spring from any other cause; and I was not without hopes that the enlightened and liberal policy of the present age would have put an effectual stop to contentions of this kind.

I'm one of those fellas who's got lots of regrets, but I don't regret having regrets.

Regret and fear are twin thieves that rob us of today.

I don't have any regrets, really. What I got out of the sport was more than I ever dreamed was possible. We took some good runs at the Olympics, but the closest we got was third in the Canadian trials. But I can't ever say I regret that, because I loved the career we had. And for me, that was enough.

I regret the times I've been mean to people... It's fine to pick on people who can defend themselves and deserve it. Some people don't deserve to be picked on who I picked on, so I don't do it anymore.

I regret that there aren't more short stories in other magazines. But in a certain way, I think the disappearance of the short-story template from everyone's head can be freeing. Partly because there's no mass market for stories, the form is up for grabs. It can be many, many things. So the anthology is very much intended for students, but I think we're all in the position of writing students now. Very few people are going around with a day-to-day engagement with the short story.

You'll regret the day you ever messed with Philadelphia Collins and sons

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.

The sins I regret the most are the one's I didn't commit.

People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.

One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.

I have been stupid and regret making a silly mistake experimenting with drugs.

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

There is no future, there is no past. I live this moment as my last. There's only us, there's only this. Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. No other road, no other way, no day but today.

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

May you get exactly what you want and live long enough to regret it.

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

I expend far too much of my maternal energies on guilt and regret.

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.

She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.

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.