Top regret Quotes Collection

Discover a curated collection of regret quotes. Find inspiration, motivation, and wisdom from the best quotes in this category.

Image of Leila Aboulela
Control yourself, it is not worth it. You will regret your rudeness afterwards, your sensitive nature will be troubled
- Leila Aboulela
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Image of Ryan North
Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.
- Ryan North
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Image of Susan Mallery
He looked at her. "I will miss you, Montana. For the first time in my life, I'll regret leaving someone behind.
- Susan Mallery
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Image of Susan Mallery
I could never regret you. Us
- Susan Mallery
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Image of Michael Scott
In my experience, we only ever regret the things we have not done.
- Michael Scott
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Image of John Christopher
We all have to learn to live with our losses, and to use our regrets to spur us on in the future.
- John Christopher
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Image of Jeaniene Frost
We are not helpless...Many times in our lives we’ve been powerless, but not this night. Right now we have the power to choose the manner in which we die. If you have been a master of nothing else in all your days, you are now a master of this moment. And I for one am going to give such an answer to this insult that others will dearly regret not being by my side to see it!
- Jeaniene Frost
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Image of Robert Falcon Scott
I do no think human beings ever came through such a month as we have…We are weak, writing is difficult, but for my own sake I do not regret this journey, which has shown that Englishmen can endure hardships, help one another, and meet death with as great a fortitude as ever in the past.
- Robert Falcon Scott
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Image of Ilona Andrews
you might want to decide fast. We live in a dangerous world. If you see a chance to be happy, you have to fight for it, so later you have no regrets.
- Ilona Andrews
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Image of Robin Roberts
At one point, we were all fearful. But as you get older, it's the things you don't do that you regret, more so than the things you do. When fear knocks, answer.
- Robin Roberts
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Image of Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
- Eileen Wilks
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Image of Margaret George
I was ever the realist, sometimes to my sorrow. But seldom to my regret.
- Margaret George
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Image of Amber Benson
Life is very short, try everything you've dreamed about (within the perimeters of sanity and the law) and regret nothing. Oh, and don't forget the sunscreen.
- Amber Benson
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Image of Mary Catherine Bateson
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can be either paralyzing or inspiring. [p. 199]
- Mary Catherine Bateson
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Image of Joss Whedon
I really love `Serenity.' I'm really proud of it and excited to see it my guys on the big screen, bringing something new to it. But `Firefly' was a different animal, something I will regret losing until the day they put me in a box, because I did have a lot of good stories I wanted to tell.
- Joss Whedon
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Image of Richard Whately
It is folly to shiver over last year's snow.
- Richard Whately
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Image of Susanna Clarke
She wore a gown the color of storms, shadows, and rain and a necklace of broken promises and regrets.
- Susanna Clarke
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Image of Jane Rule
As a writer, I must be free to say what is in all the diversity I can command. I regret the distorting prejudices that surround me, whether they affect homosexuals or men or the physically handicapped and I can't alone defeat them. They will not defeat me, either as a lesbian or a writer.
- Jane Rule
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Image of David Rakoff
There is supercomputer somewhere in the Nevada desert whose sole function is to count the number of times that I have said the following, because it is unquantifiable by human minds at this point, but this time it’s really true: I should have stayed home.
- David Rakoff
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Image of Chris Adrian
But as surely as the moon rises and the sun sets, depravity passes down through the ages, because there is always a gap between who we are and who we should be, and our parents, molested by regret, conceive us under the false hope that we will be better than them, and everything they do, every hug and blow, only makes certain that we never will be.
- Chris Adrian
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Image of Jack Black
There were times when I thought I got a bit more punishment than was coming to me, but I don't regret a minute of it now. Each of us must be tempered in some fire. Nobody had more to do with choosing the fire that tempered me than myself, and instead of finding fault with the fire I give thanks that I had the metal to take the temper and hold it.
- Jack Black
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Image of Samuel Rogers
Almost all men are over anxious. No sooner do they enter the world than they lose that taste for natural and simple pleasures so remarkable in early life. Every hour do they ask themselves what progress they have made in the pursuit of wealth or honor and on they go as their fathers went before them till weary and sick at heart they look back with a sigh of regret to the golden time of their childhood.
- Samuel Rogers
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Image of David Brin
I regret having been the bearer of ambiguous tidings.
- David Brin
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Image of Scott Spencer
The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.
- Scott Spencer
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Image of Ann Richards
I'm really glad that our young people missed the Depression and missed the great big war. But I do regret that they missed the leaders that I knew, leaders who told us when things were tough and that we'd have to sacrifice, and that these difficulties might last awhile. They didn't tell us things were hard for us because we were different, or isolated, or special interests. They brought us together and they gave us a sense of national purpose.
- Ann Richards
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Image of Gena Lee Nolin
To this day people will say, "What do you think about doing Playboy?" I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.
- Gena Lee Nolin
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Image of A.C. Grayling
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
- A.C. Grayling
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Image of Steve Perry
He had regrets, of course, but not so many that he would lose any sleep over them. Life surprised him now and then and he didn't much care for surprises, unless he was passing them out. But - what was to be done? You had to deal with the reality, he had learned that over the years, no matter how much you didn't like it
- Steve Perry
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Image of Teresa Medeiros
We're all haunted in one way or another, are we not? If not by spirits, then by our own demons and regrets.
- Teresa Medeiros
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Image of Jacquelyn Mitchard
You'll never regret eating blueberries or working up a sweat.
- Jacquelyn Mitchard
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Image of Robert Peel
However much I have been blamed for not showing more deferences to a great party, and for not acting more steadily on party principles, all I have to regret is that I showed so much.
- Robert Peel
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Image of Ron Wyden
The combination of the growth of these digital technologies, the ability of the government to conjure up these secret interpretations, plus a very unusual and novel court make for this ever-expanding surveillance state. We so treasure our freedoms; we will regret it if our generation doesn't use this unique time to reform the surveillance laws and make it clear that security and liberty are not mutually exclusive. We can do both.
- Ron Wyden
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Image of Susan Kay
Memories are like fireflies darting across the surface of my mind, showing me here and there images so sharp and vivid that I catch my breath in wonder before the vignette disappears, sinking like a pebble into the quicksand of regret and recrimination.
- Susan Kay
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Image of Eckhart Tolle
All negativity is caused by an accumulation of psychological time and denial of the present. Unease, anxiety, tension, stress, worry - all forms of fear - are caused by too much future, and not enough presence. Guilt, regret, resentment, grievances, sadness, bitterness, and all forms of nonforgiveness are caused by too much past, and not enough presence.
- Eckhart Tolle
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Image of Arina Tanemura
To each their own. One must live each day so that there are no regrets.
- Arina Tanemura
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Image of Hubert Selby, Jr.
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.
- Hubert Selby, Jr.
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Image of Hubert Selby, Jr.
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.
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Image of R.L. LaFevers
A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.
- R.L. LaFevers
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Image of Mary Renault
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
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Image of Norman Reedus
Do not have regrets. Guilt is a wasted emotion.
- Norman Reedus
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Image of Charlotte Bronte
Remorse is the poison of life.
- Charlotte Bronte
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Image of Wendell Berry
When I rise up, let me rise up joyful like a bird. When I fall, let me fall without regret like a leaf.
- Wendell Berry
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Image of Kazuya Minekura
Why would anyone want to turn back time? There is no meaning in regret, no point in thinking about thing I could have done. Because there is no guarantee that any decision is the right one.
- Kazuya Minekura
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Image of Kazuya Minekura
Regret is just a waste of time for fools.
- Kazuya Minekura
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Image of Edward Albee
I think we should all live on the precipe of life, as fully and as dangerously as possible. Everyone should make the assumption that they're going through life only once. Tomorrow we die. Why not take chances, extend yourself? How awful it is when a person comes to the end of life full of regret.
- Edward Albee
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Image of Jose Saramago
If I'm sincere today, what does it matter if I regret it tomorrow?
- Jose Saramago
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Image of Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.
- Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey
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Image of Antonio Tabucchi
Rather than regret for what I have written, I feel regret for what I shall never be able to read.
- Antonio Tabucchi
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Image of Gerard De Nerval
L'imagination m'apportait des délices infinies. En recouvrant ce que les hommes appellent la raison, faudra-t-il regretter de les avoir perdues...? My imagination gave me infinite delight. In recovering what men call reason, do I have to regret the loss of these joys?
- Gerard De Nerval
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Image of Ned Vizzini
I'm done with those; regrets are an excuse for people who have failed.
- Ned Vizzini
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