Quotes about regret
regret grief affection
O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them. George Eliot
regret should-have hydrogen-bomb
Above all, I regret that scientific experiments-some of them mine-should have produced such a terrible weapon as the hydrogen bomb. Regret, with all my soul, but not guilt. Harold Urey
regret party presidential
My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. Jacques Delors
regret grief sadness
The calm. If there is God or something Higher for me it is this. The calm. If there is something that will hold me when I need to hold it is this the calm. There is no anger, no rage, no Fury. There is no want, no need, no desire. There is no hatred no shame no regret. There is no grief, no sadness, no depression. There is no fear. Absolutely no fear. When one lives without fear, one cannot be broken. When one lives with fear one is broken before one begins to live. James Frey
regret mistake chance
If you are afraid to take a chance, take one anyway. What you don't do can create the same regrets as the mistakes you make. Iyanla Vanzant
regret work-out feelings
Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well - there's another notch on my experience belt. Isaac Marion
regret trying toxins
Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body. Ellen Burstyn
regret life-is-too-short love-life
Life is too short for any vain regretting... Between the swift sun's rising and its setting, we have no time for useless tears or fretting, life is too short.... Time is the best avenger if we wait, the years speed by, and on their wings bear healing, life is too short for aught but high endeavor-too short for spite, but long enough for love. And love lives on forever and forever. Ella Wheeler Wilcox
regret heart eye
There is a haunting phantom called Regret, A shadowy creature robed somewhat like woe, But fairer in the face, whom all men know By her said mien, and eyes forever wet. No heart would seek her; but once having met All take her by the hand, and to and fro They wander through those paths of long ago-- Those hallowed ways 'twere wiser to forget.
regret dark long
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
regret hate envy
The hate of favourites is only a love of favour. The envy of NOT possessing it, consoles and softens its regrets by the contempt it evinces for those who possess it, and we refuse them our homage, not being able to detract from them what attracts that of the rest of the world. Francois de La Rochefoucauld
regret night giving
We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it! Jeaniene Frost
regret ifs
Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.
regret writing should-have
When we hold onto the negative in ourselves it comes with endless guilt. We hold onto a lifetime of floating visions and regrets about what we should have done or should have become. Conscience recognizes wrong and tries to atone. But guilt turns into resentment. Conscience brings us closer to each other; guilt drives us apart. Create a new feeling. Every time guilt settles in your stomach, write "I forgive" on a piece of paper. Send it up the chimney, tear it up and flush it, put it in the garbage. Don't eat it. Jennifer James
regret numbers age
I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘OK, I’m looking back on my life. I want to minimise the number of regrets I have.’ And I knew that when I was 80, I was not going to regret having tried this. I was not going to regret trying to participate in this thing called the Internet that I thought was going to be a really big deal. I knew that if I failed, I wouldn’t regret that. But I knew the one thing I might regret is not ever having tried. I knew that that would haunt me every day. Jeff Bezos
regret numbers decision
The framework I found which made the decision incredibly easy was what I called – which only a nerd would call – a ‘regret minimization framework’. So I wanted to project myself forward to age 80 and say, ‘Okay, now I’m looking back on my life. I want to have minimized the number of regrets I have.
regret good-life thinking
If you think about the long term then you can really make good life decisions that you won’t regret later.
regret wall missing
Am I going to regret leaving Wall Street? No. Will I regret missing the beginning of the Internet? Yes.
regret business starting-up
I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying.
regret responsibility tears
I must be without remorse or regrets as I am without excuse; for from the instant of my upsurge into being, I carry the weight of the world by myself alone without help, engaged in a world for which I bear the whole responsibility without being able, whatever I do, to tear myself away from this responsibility for an instant. Jean-Paul Sartre
regret people rats
My only regret is that I'm going before that rat, Robespierre! [to his executioner] Don't forget to show my head to the people; it's well worth seeing. Georges Danton
regret struggle heart
Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores? George Sand
regret mistake thinking
But I certainly made mistakes, for which I regret, I think most human beings in their lifetime make mistakes, mine ended up in two years prison - two very remarkable years from which I learnt a lot. Jeffrey Archer
regret mindset certain
I notice with a certain sense of regret that far too many Europeans are returning to a regional and national mindset. Jean-Claude Juncker
regret fire best-things
I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me. Jenny Slate
regret believe sadness
Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions. Jeffrey Eugenides
regret heart legs
Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.
regret tired being-real
I feel like I turned down a lot of things that I wish I hadn't. But you never know when you're younger. I don't have regrets about certain things I turned down. Those films would have required things of me that would have been challenging, and they ended up being really good movies. But I was never a careerist, I never thought in those terms. I'd be like, "Oh, I'm tired. I don't want to work." Jennifer Jason Leigh
regret responsibility light
The innocent one is he who does not explain, for whom life is both a mystery and a total light, one who does not complain... For innocence admits of neither regret nor dispute. The innocent one assumes all responsibility. Jean Giraudoux
regret thinking remember-something
When I remember something which I had, But which is gone, and I must do without, I sometimes wonder how I can be glad, Even in cowslip time when hedges sprout; It makes me sigh to think on it,--but yet My days will not be better days, should I forget. Jean Ingelow
regret your-future
You have to choose your future regrets. Christopher Hitchens
regret hockey people
We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods. If you want to know how I feel, I'll summarize it in one word - terrible. Gary Bettman
regret eye ears
I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret. Fritz Lang