Quotes about regret
regret wine past
Oh! My beloved! fill the cup, that clears to-day of past regrets and future fears. Omar Khayyam
regret omission confusion
The whole motley confusion of acts, omissions, regrets and hopes which is the life of each one of us finds in death, not meaning or explanation, but an end. Octavio Paz
regret perfection smoking
Perfection is such a nuisance that I often regret having cured myself of using tobacco. Emile Zola
regret pay damage
Each of us must pay for the slightest damage he inflicts upon a universe created for indifference and stagnation, sooner or later, he will regret not having left it intact. Emile M. Cioran
regret desire infinity
No one should forget: Eros alone can fulfill life; knowledge, never. Only Eros makes sense; knowledge is empty infinity;––for thoughts, there is always time; life has its time; there is no thought that comes too late; any desire can become a regret.
regret men world
Paradise was unendurable, otherwise the first man would have adapted to it; this world is no less so, since here we regret paradise or anticipate another one. What to do? Where to go? Do nothing and go nowhere, easy enough.
regret trying friendly
When I look back on the stuff I used to wear, I wonder why somebody didn't try to stop me. Just a friendly warning, "You may regret this," would have been fine. Ellen DeGeneres
regret real believe
I had seen the light, come to believe that a wedding should be about a feeling between two people, not a show for the masses...It was a magical, romantic evening, and although I occasionally wish I had worn a slightly fancier dress, and that Nick and I had danced on our wedding night, I have no real regrets about the way we chose to do things. Emily Giffin
regret heart cutting
Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?
regret good-friend never-regret
You’ll never regret being a good friend.
regret scary feelings
Despite the fact that I have no regrets about how things turned out in my life, I still can't help wanting to understand my intense relationship with Leo, as well as that turbulent time between adolescence and adulthood when everything feels raw and invigorating and scary-and why those feelings are all coming back to me now.
regret fighting thinking
I think some of the biggest time sucks are regret and guilt, and I have to fight against those things all the time. In a way, it's a good thing, because it can motivate you to make amends and forgive, but regrets are really, I think, a supreme waste of time in many ways.
regret flower lovely
The lovely flowers embarrass me. They make me regret I am not a bee... Emily Dickinson
regret simple here-i-am
In the end there is nothing to be done but to state clearly what has been done, without shame or regret, and say: Here I am, and this is what I am. Now deal with me as you see fit. That is your right. Mine is to stand by the act, and pay the price. You do what you must do, and pay for it. So in the end all things are simple. Ellis Peters
regret men average
The great tragedy of the average man is that he goes to his grave with his music still in him. Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
regret mistake chance
the mistakes you regret the most in your life are the ones you didn't commit when you had the chance Helen Rowland
regret women opportunity
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
regret men wife
I bequeath all my property to my wife on the condition that she remarry immediately. Then there will be at least one man to regret my death. Heinrich Heine
regret mistake life-lesson
I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn. Hilary Duff
regret party heart
I deeply regret my comments I made last week regarding the Israelis and the Palestinians. They do not reflect my heart-felt belief that peace will come to the Middle East only when all parties recognize the need for mutual respect and tolerance. May that day come soon. Helen Thomas
regret eye men
I found earthquakes, even when I was in them, deeply satisfying, abruptly revealed evidence of the scheme in action. That the schemes could destroy the works of man might be a personal regret but remained, in the larger picture I had come to recognize, a matter of abiding indifference. No eye was on the sparrow. No eye was watching me. Joan Didion
regret silly thinking
I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret. Eric Stoltz
regret thinking echoes
I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes. Eric Morecambe
regret opportunity awards
I've learned that you have to stay true to yourself from all the amazing people I've had the opportunity to work with thus far. You have to stay true to yourself and don't be afraid even though people may say what you're doing isn't cool or isn't right. I promise you, you will not regret it if you stay true to who you are and what you love to do because there is no other reason that I am up here today receiving this award. Emma Stone
regret father self
The Fathers of the Church can well afford to preach the gospel of Christ. It contains nothing dangerous to the regime of authority and wealth; it stands for self-denial and self-abnegation, for penance and regret, and is absolutely inert in the face of every [in]dignity, every outrage imposed upon mankind. Emma Goldman
regret writing mean
I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were. John McGahern
regret awkward procedures
They were involved in that awkward procedure of getting to unknow each other. John Irving
regret emptiness moments
I regret nothing. There have been things I missed, but I ask no questions, because I have loved it, such as it has been, even the moments of emptiness, even the unanswered-and that I loved it, that is the unanswered in my life. Ayn Rand
regret journey lessons
You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward. Aubrey O'Day
regret wish desire
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
regret left-behind behinds
There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind Eleanor Roosevelt
regret spoke
No regret. I spoke the truth. I don't regret it. Jerramy Stevens
regretting rest
Don't even think about it and just do it. If you don't, you'll be regretting it the rest of the weekend. Neil Strauss