Regret Quotes
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One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.
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Your good mother tells me you are feeling very badly in your new situation. Allow me to assure you it is a perfect certainty that you will, very soon, feel better - quite happy - if you only stick to the resolution you have taken to procure a military education.... On the contrary, if you falter, and give up, you will lose the power of keeping any resolution, and will regret it all your life.
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Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.
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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.
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I don't regret being topless in certain things, but there were some things in 'EastEnders' where there was no reason for me to be topless.
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Life is too short to wake up in the morning with regrets. So, love the people who treat you right and forget about the ones who do not.
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I try to face things without regret, or make sure that I'm happy with things and leave nothing unsaid if I can.
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I do not regret the years I spent reading the traditional canon of white male writers in school. I do regret reading so little else there: Austen, George Eliot and occasionally Woolf, likewise Wright, Ellison, Hughes and Gwendolyn Brooks.
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The ultimate goal of yoga is to always observe things accurately, and therefore never act in a way that will make us regret our actions later.
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You tend to regret the things you haven't done.
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Memory all to easily accommodates the corruption of regret.
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Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.
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Those allies who failed to join us will regret it. They're making a mistake.
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I am told that you regret not what you did but what you didn't do; and so that's why I do everything, so as not to have any regrets.
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I already gave my best. I have no regrets at all.
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O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.
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There's no reason to regret anything. Regret is a waste.
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To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea.
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Early happiness handicaps people. I do not regret having been profoundly unhappy.
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I don't regret leaving 'Homeland,' because I wanted to work with the Bhatts. The dates were clashing, and I had to make a choice.
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Astronauts cannot pick their nicknames and can only get their nicknames from other astronauts. Any astronaut who tries to give himself a cool nickname will regret it by getting just the opposite from his astronaut friends.
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I don't have a shred of regret about entering the exchange-rate mechanism.
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What I regret most in my life is that I did not get educated.
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How sad, ye Gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps! You will know it when you have wandered astray in those mists, when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it two when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; its mists; its swamps and its rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you.
