Quotes about regret
regret simple thinking
When we think of all the things we want to do with our other half the answer should be simple; we should want to do absolutely everything with them. We should want to experience everything, feel everything, see everything with no one but them by our sides. When we look back on our lives it's not the things we did do with them that we'll regret, it's the things we didn't do. Friedrich Nietzsche
regret body fads
My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet. Jennie Garth
regret lucky pleasure
I took pleasure when I could. I acted clearly and morally and without regret. I'm very lucky. Jeanne Calment
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 thinking lovers
A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.
regret giving secret
It is given to few persons to keep this secret well. Those who lay down rules too often break them, and the safest we are able to give is to listen much, to speak little, and to say nothing that that will ever give ground or regret.
regret positivity past
He who spends time regretting the past loses the present and risks the future. Francisco de Quevedo
regret dont-regret
In life you don't regret the things you do, you regret the things you don't do. Hugh Jackman
regret public-opinion would-be
I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless. Horace Greeley
regret evil done
Thou wilt lament Hereafter, when the evil shall be done And shall admit no cure. Homer
regret
I couldn't take it no more -- something had to be done, ... I am sorry, but I don't regret it.
regret coffee skulls
The regrets I have are so minor. You know, would I leave my Keith Richards hat, with the silver skull on it, on the stool at the coffee shop at LaGuardia? I wouldn't do that again. But overall, no, I don't have any regrets. Hunter S. Thompson
regret two numbers
But I knew that someday I was going to die. And just before I died two things would happen; Number 1: I would regret my entire life. Number 2: I would want to live my life over again. Hubert Selby, Jr.
regret home two
I was sitting at home and had a profound experience. I experienced, in all of my Being, that someday I was going to die, and it wouldn't be like it had been happening, almost dying but somehow staying alive, but I would just die! And two things would happen right before I died: I would regret my entire life; I would want to live it over again. This terrified me. The thought that I would live my entire life, look at it and realize I blew it forced me to do something with my life.
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 i-regret
I regret the things I didn't do, not what I did. Ingrid Bergman
regret war cost
I have absolutely no regret about my vote against this war. The same questions remain. The cost in human lives, the cost to our budget, probably 100 billion. We could have probably brought down that statue for a lot less. Nancy Pelosi
regret decision dont-regret
I stand by every movie that I did. I don't regret any decision I made. Mila Kunis
regret night trying
When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things. Miguel Syjuco
regret memories moments
...the memory of a particular image is but regret for a particular moment.. Marcel Proust
regret matter today
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow? Jose Saramago
regret past ought
The past will not tell us what we ought to do, but... what we ought to avoid. Jose Ortega y Gasset
regret risk too-late
there are risks you'll take for yourself because you know that if your plan goes wrong, it'll be too late for regrets. but if you risk the lives of others and fail, you'll have a lifetime to regret it. Kelley Armstrong
regret couple blood
I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood. Jo Nesbo
regret littles regret-nothing
In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct. John C. Calhoun