Regret Quotes
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I have no regrets. I have not one single regret. I was born with a wonderful DNA where I felt that my life was not a race against someone else or another artist. It was probably internal.
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We live in the false as long as we have not suffered. But when we begin to suffer, we enter the truth only to regret the false.
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The weekend break had begun with the usual resentment and had continued with half-repressed ill humour. It was, of course, his fault. He had been more ready to hurt his wife's feelings and deprive his daughter than inconvenience a pub bar full of strangers. He wished there could be one memory of his dead child which wasn't tainted with guilt and regret.
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I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.
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The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.
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You can't win an argument. You can't because if you lose it, you lose it; and if you win it, you lose it.
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Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.
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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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I regret not doing a film that I was offered with Clark Gable because the script was not good enough.
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As a Nobel Prize winner I cannot but regret that the award was never given to Mark Twain, nor to Henry James, speaking only of my own countrymen. Greater writers than these also did not receive the prize. I would have been happy - happier - today if the prize had been given to that beautiful writer Isak Dinesen.
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We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
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My favorite songs to sing have always been songs about regret. I don't know why that is, but to me, that's country music.
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At fifteen, it [ "Follies"] didn't have any kind of resonance with me, this show about regret and middle age.
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I am not a trained actor and am not near the top of anyone's want list. I go after what I am offered, if I am so inclined. Now and then, I get offers for things that are not to my liking, in that I just don't care about the story. All this super tough guy stuff isn't anything that interests me all that much. I can't think of anything I turned down that I regret.
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My only regret about being gay is that I repressed it for so long. I surrendered my youth to the people I feared when I could have been out there loving someone. Don't make that mistake yourself. Life's too damn short.
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My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing.
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People in Russia say that those who do not regret the collapse of the Soviet Union have no heart, and those that do regret it have no brain.
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Habit is the enormous flywheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision. Full half the time of such a man goes to the deciding, or regretting, of matters which ought to be so ingrained in him as practically not to exist for his consciousness at all.
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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.
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A regret understood by no one: the regret to be a pessimist. It’s not easy to be on the wrong foot with life
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One truth discovered, one pang of regret at not being able to express it, is better than all the fluency and flippancy in the world.
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I don't regret being on television; I just regret the fact that I wanted to be in the movies, and that didn't happen.
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Most saints live to regret their career choice.
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Well, if you're talking about the current climate, there's a lack of content in American film because I think people are deeply confused about their emotions, and they don't regret certain aspects of their own foreign policy.
