Quotes about regret
regret i-regret
I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. Kathy Griffin
regret grateful different
It is true that I had wanted to die , but that is peculiarly different from regretting having been born. Overwhelmingly, I was enormously glad to have been born, grateful for life, and I couldn’t imagine not wanting to pass on life to someone else. Kay Redfield Jamison
regret never-let-me-go poor
Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans? Kazuo Ishiguro
regret trying going-for-it
One of my mottos not only just in skating but in life in general and I try to enforce it as well, is like no regrets and just like going for it. Kristi Yamaguchi
regret waste reason
There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste. Kristen Stewart
regret heart mess
If you follow your heart, you're never going to regret anything, even if you completely mess up constantly.
regret believe live-life
Live life and take chances. Believe that everything happens for a reason and don't regret. Love to the fullest and you will find true happiness in life. Realize that things go wrong and people change, but things do go on. Sometimes things weren't meant to be. What is supposed to happen will work its way out. Oprah Winfrey
regret looks way
Whichever way we look the prospect is disagreeable. Behind, we have left pleasures we shall never enjoy, and therefore regret; and before, we see pleasures which we languish to possess, and are consequently uneasy till we possess them. Oliver Goldsmith
regret loss journey
Happiness is a garden walled with glass: there's no way in or out. In Paradise there are no stories, because there are no journeys. It's loss and regret and misery and yearning that drive the story forward, along its twisted road. Margaret Atwood
regret men use
If only every man would make proper use of his strength and do his utmost, he need never regret his limited ability. Marcus Tullius Cicero
regret hockey winning
People ask if I regret not winning a Stanley Cup, but winning the series against the Soviet Union was the best. It was the greatest experience of my hockey career by far. Marcel Dionne
regret sometimes realizing
Never regret something, because at one point everything you did was exactly what you wanted to do. And sometimes that's the hardest thing to realize. Kid Cudi
regret heart the-end-of-the-day
At the end of the day, you can't regret it if you were trying. At the end of the day I'm walking with a heart of a lion.
regret philosophy people
I regret not getting brutally forthright with human beings a hell of a lot sooner than I did. Civility and obliquity are wasted on people who will not make the effort to be harsher or stricter on their own gooey egos than they are on other people. Kenny Smith
regret thinking use
I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use. Ken Livingstone
regret selfish may
nothing may be more selfish than remorse ... Margaret Deland
regret congratulations sleep
Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.' Margaret Cho
regret mistake common-sense
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde
regret luxury done
The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
regret doe moments
I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.
regret loss sin
It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.
regret believe men
Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.
regret book mind
The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.
regret ignorance expression
It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.
regret data hype
We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.
regret lying soul
To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
regret past anxiety
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.
regret fall light
Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.
regret talent appreciative
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent. Lucille Ball
regret father men
When I die, remember that what you knew of me is with you always. What is buried is only the shell of what was. Do not regret the shell, but remember the man. Remember the father. Louis L'Amour
regret half half-life
I wondered about the half-life of regret. Lorrie Moore
regret yesterday tomorrow
The regrets of yesterday and the fear of tomorrow can kill you. Liza Minnelli
regret thinking trying
I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me. Liz Phair