Quotes about regret
regret past practice
I will practice coming back to the present moment...not letting regrets and sorrow drag me back into the past or letting anxieties, fears, or cravings pull me out... Nhat Hanh
regret names rose
I smiled at him as best I could and pushed the paper across the table before he could change his mind. Because Henry DeVille was correct - there was an ingredient in my baking more concenctrated than any extract, more pungent than any spice; an ingredient that everyone would recognize and no one was able to name: it was regret, and it rose when one least expected. Jodi Picoult
regret book reading
This must be what an addict feels like, I think, trying to fight the pull of one last, quick read. My fingers itch toward the binding, and finally, with a sigh of regret, I just grab the book and open it, hungrily reading the story.
regret ocean water
It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.
regret grief angel
let me tell you what happens when you cook down the syrup of loss over the open fire of sorrow: it solidfies into something wlaw. not grief, like you'd expect, or even regret. no, it gets thick as paste, black as ash; yet it isn't until you dip a finger in and feel that sharp taste dissolving on your tounge that you realize this is angel in its purest form, unrefined; a substance to be weighed and measyred and spread.
regret mouths i-regret
Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth. Kathy Griffin
regret helping i-regret
So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.
regret i-regret
I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.
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.