Quotes about regret
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. Emile M. Cioran
regret feet easy
A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
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 real hydrogen-bomb
Had we not pursued the hydrogen bomb, there is a very real threat that we would now all be speaking Russian. I have no regrets. Edward Teller
regret want sometimes
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can’t. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result. Holly Black
regret night trouble
No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.
regret thousand ready
A thousand times I was ready to regret and take back my rash statement - yet it had been the truth. Hermann Hesse
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 ocean
Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it. Khaled Hosseini
regret lost
What good is regret? It brings back nothing. What we have lost is irretrievable.
regret thinking should-have
J’aurais dû être plus gentille—I should have been more kind. That is something a person will never regret. You will never say to yourself when you are old, Ah, I wish I was not good to that person. You will never think that.
regret children justification
Some of our children are our justifications and some are but our regrets Khalil Gibran
regret heart compassion
The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love
regret light darkness
Yet you shall not deplore having known blindness, nor regret having been deaf. For in that day you shall know the hidden purposes in all things. And you shall bless darkness as you would bless light.
regret i-regret
I regret how much I believed in the future. Jonathan Safran Foer
regret mistake made
The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.
regret i-regret
I regret that it takes a life to learn how to live.
regret ignorance no-regrets
The only true conquests-those that awaken no regrets- are those obtained over our ignorance. Napoleon Bonaparte
regret space never-regret
Space we can recover; time never.
regret next imperfect
It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born. Odilon Redon