Quotes about regret
regret past anxiety
The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable. Oscar Wilde
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
regret taken path
Regrets are born of paths never taken. Michael Dell
regret short-life life-is-too-short
The only things you regret are the things you didn't do. Michael Curtiz
regret mean choices
What does it mean to regret when you have no choice? It's what you can bear. And there it is... It was death. I chose life. Michael Cunningham
regret mean writing
I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.
regret sadness love-is
That's the thing about love - it's full of possibilities. It can lead you down so many different paths. Sure, for some of us, it can lead to sadness and regret. But, for others, well, for others it can lead them to the greatest future they could've ever hoped for. Love is the most possible thing in the world.
regret opportunity thinking
Why was the human race created? Or at least why wasn't something creditable created in place of it? God had His opportunity. He could have made a reputation. But no, He must commit this grotesque folly - a lark which must have cost Him a regret or two when He came to think it over and observe effects. Mark Twain
regret future past
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment
regret i-regret humans
I am only human, although I regret it.
regret healing riding-your-bike
Get a bicycle. You will not regret it, if you live.
regret hero men
Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do.
regret editors magazines
How often we recall with regret that Napoleon once shot at a magazine editor and missed him and killed a publisher. But we remember with charity that his intentions were good.
regret hero simple
Unconsciously we all have a standard by which we measure other men, and if we examine closely we find that this standard is a very simple one, and is this: we admire them, we envy them, for great qualities we ourselves lack. Hero worship consists in just that. Our heroes are men who do things which we recognize, with regret, and sometimes with a secret shame, that we cannot do. We find not much in ourselves to admire, we are always privately wanting to be like somebody else. If everybody was satisfied with himself, there would be no heroes.
regret believe men
It is better to believe in men too rashly, and regret, than believe too meanly. Men could be more than they are, if they would try for it. He has shown them that. Mary Renault
regret vain foreboding
I do not allow myself vain regrets or foreboding. Mary Boykin Chesnut
regret opposites numbers
Did everyone make the most ghastly blunders at regularly intervals through their life and live to regret them ever afterward? Was everyone's life filled with confusing and contradictory mix of guilt and innocence, hatred and love, concern and unconcern, and any number of other pairings of polar opposites? Or were most people one thing or the other - good or bad, cheerful or crotchety, generous or miserly, and so on.
regret successful opportunity
Neil [Simon] was considered our greatest [living playwright] at the time [of their marriage]. Maybe he still is; I don't know. But anyway, he was hugely successful, and I just kind of got folded into that. And in some ways, he protected me, but in other ways, I wasn't fully able to step out, you know? He didn't want me to go away so much. The work that we did together was great, and I don't regret it, but what I am saying is that I didn't get an opportunity to explore some other areas that were offered to me early on. I took what I might call a U-turn. Marsha Mason
regret grateful past
As of today, I have absolutely no regrets. I think I am a mature person who can take things in stride. I'm grateful for people in my past. They helped me get to where I am, wherever that is. But now, I am thinking for myself and sitting in on all the business transactions. Marilyn Monroe
regret lessons better-person
I don't have regrets, there are only lessons. You learn from them, and you become a better person. Nicole Polizzi
regret mistake way
I've made a lot of mistakes and I don't regret any of them. Sometimes that's the only way you learn. Nick Nolte
regret mistake thinking
I think everybody makes mistakes. People do things that they regret. Nick Saban
regret opposites years
For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true. Nick Hornby
regret hate glimpse
What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.
regret writing ideas
You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger. Mary Matalin
regret thinking action
Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. Mary McCarthy
regret feelings might
If you simply ignored the feeling, you would never know what might happen, and in many ways that was worse than finding out in the first place. Because if you were wrong, you could go forward in your life without ever looking back over your shoulder and wondering what might have been. Nicholas Sparks
regret grief kissing
She couldn’t read his expression. As he started toward her, she recalled the way he’d seemed to glide through the sand the first time she’d ever seen him; she remembered their kiss on the boat dock the night of his sister’s wedding. And she heard again the words she’d said to him on the day they’d said good-bye. She was besieged by a storm of conflicting emotions—desire, regret, longing, fear, grief, love. There was so much to say, yet what could they really begin to say in this awkward setting and with so much time already passed?