Regret Quotes

• Much as I venerate the name of Newton, I am not obliged to believe that he was infallible. I see ... with regret that he was liable to err, and that his authority has, perhaps, sometimes even retarded the progress of science.

  

  William P. Young
  • Believe
  • Sometimes
  • Progress

• I can never think of the time I spend idling in railway stations as lost; it's a waiting liberated from the three temporal vices of regret, anticipation or boredom, the weak echo of that bliss spent between lifetimes.

  

  Eric Morecambe
  • Bliss
  • Lifetimes
  • Railway Stations

• I decided long ago that my family absolutely comes first, and I don't regret that. I do, however, sometimes wish I had an extra five hours or so in the day!

  

  Elizabeth Hoyt
  • Long
  • Family
  • Wish

• There is no point in regretting any part of the past. The past can't now be altered, the future has yet to be lived, and consciously to experience every moment of the present is the only way to gain at least the illusion of immortality.

  

  P. D. James
  • Experience
  • Future
  • Past

• My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

  

  Jennie Garth
  • Regret

• Brandon’s greatest regret is that he has but one life to give for Gondor.

  

  Brandon Mull
  • Life
  • Regret
  • Give

• I belive power can be used for good, I don't think every form of power is absolute evil. I wish I would have stepped in, and I really regret it. And that's why I really encourage young people who are organizing to speak up.

  

  Kathleen Hanna Bikini Kill
  • People
  • Thinking
  • Wish

• I don't really believe in regret or mistakes. I try to take everything as it is, be comfortable with myself.

  

  Analeigh Tipton
  • Believe
  • Regret

• You can't live a truthful life without regret.

  

  Jamie Lee Curtis
  • Live
  • Regret
  • Truthful

• When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

  

  Miguel Syjuco
  • Things
  • Generation
  • Forgotten

• I got a regret: That I started acting so late. I was 27, and guys who start at 18 or so, there's this kinda continuity of friendships they form in the profession by startin' young, I've never had that.

  

  Peter Falk
  • Regret
  • Friendships

• I do not regret one moment of my life.

  

  Lillie Langtry
  • Life
  • Regret

• As you can see, I am immersing myself in color-I've held back from that until now; and I don't regret it.

  

  Vincent Van Gogh
  • Color
  • Regret

• No space of regret can make amends for one life's opportunity misused.

  

  Charles Dickens
  • Opportunity
  • Regret
  • Misused

• I always brought up my children not to believe in Mothers Day gifts, and now I regret it.

  

  Lauren Bacall
  • Believe
  • Gifts
  • My Children

• 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.

  

  Anthony Clifford Grayling
  • World
  • Giving
  • Regret

• Be good, and you will be lonesome, be lonesome and you will be free. Live a lie and you will live to regret it, that's what living is to me.

  

  Jimmy Buffett
  • Good
  • Live
  • Free

• The healthy attitude, the only reasonable one towards a fault made or a sin committed is surely a vigorous shake of one’s moral shoulders, vigorous enough to shake it off and out of remembrance. The sin itself was a sad waste of time and happiness, and absolutely no more should be wasted in lugubriously reflecting on it. Shall we, poor human beings at such a disadvantage from the first in the fight with Fate through the many weaknesses and ailments of our bodies, load our souls as well with an ever-growing burden of regret and penitence? Shall we let a weight of vivid memories break our hearts? How are we to get on with our living if we are continually dropping into sloughs of bitter and often unjust self-reproach? Every morning comes the light, and a fresh chance of doing better. Is it not the sheerest folly and ingratitude to let yesterday spoil the God-given to-day?

  

  Elizabeth von Arnim
  • Moral
  • Happiness
  • Attitude

• Regret is just life's aftertaste.

  

  Amy Harmon
  • Life
  • Regret
  • Aftertaste

• You tempt me to telephone Matron and ask her to let you have the afternoon off.’ He spoke lightly and Sarah felt a surprising regret that he couldn’t possibly mean it. ‘That sort of thing happens in novels, never in real life. I can imagine Matron’s feelings!

  

  Betty Neels
  • Imagine
  • Novels
  • Telephone

• The one thing I regret is missing the time with my older children when they were young.

  

  Kris Kristofferson
  • Time
  • Children
  • Missing

• How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Thinking
  • Listening
  • Fine

• I regret that I stayed in my first relationship for too long. I didn't get that it wasn't working out.

  

  Aron Flam
  • Long
  • Regret

• To regret the exchange of earthly pleasures for the joys of Heaven, is as if the grovelling caterpillar should lament that it must one day quit the nibbled leaf to soar aloft and flutter through the air, roving at will from flower to flower, sipping sweet honey from their cups, or basking in their sunny petals.

  

  Anne Bronte
  • Heaven
  • Flower
  • Honey

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