Regret Quotes

• Even today, a majority of people surveyed say that they regret the fact that the USSR collapsed. But only 9 percent say that they would want it back.

  

  Mikhail Gorbachev
  • People
  • Regret
  • Percent

• SNL was a dream come true for me. It was a fantastic year. I dont have any regrets.

  

  Michaela Watkins
  • Dream
  • Regret
  • Fantastic

• 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

• There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

  

  Sheryl Swoopes
  • Reason
  • Feels
  • Happened

• But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

  

  Allison Winn Scotch
  • Regret
  • Longing
  • Looking Back

• Stephen A.Douglas was a risk-taker by temperament; I expect that Lincoln - Douglas debates represented another risk he just couldn't resist. He lived to regret it.

  

  Allen C. Guelzo
  • Regret
  • Temperament
  • Debates

• Monkey Beach is a moody, powerful novel full of memorable characters. Reading it was like entering a pool of emerald water to discover a haunted world shivering with loss and love, regret and sorrow, where the spirit world is as real as the human. I was sucked into it with the very first sentence and when I left, it was with a feeling of immense reluctance.

  

  Anita Rau Badami
  • Love
  • Beach
  • Novel

• As simplistic as this may sound, commitment is still the common denominator separating those who live their dreams from those who live in regret.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Dreams
  • Commitment
  • Regret

• Sometimes when you record an album in the end, there are things here and there you regret production wise or in composition.

  

  Stéphane Paut
  • Sometimes
  • Wise
  • Albums

• No one can avoid a challenge in life without breeding regret, and regret is the arsenic of life.

  

  Esther Williams
  • Life
  • Challenge
  • Arsenic

• I have nothing to regret, to retract or take back . . . I can only say; God Save Ireland!

  

  Edward Condon
  • Regret
  • Ireland
  • God Save

• Give it your best shot. Go for it. If it's what you really want to do, go for it. Even if you don't make it, you will never look back and have regrets. You can always say, "Hey, I went for it. I tried my hardest. It was an awesome experience."

  

  Carmen Rasmusen
  • Looks
  • Shots
  • Hardest

• You make it all sound so simple. Run your guts out...collapse at the finish, throw up, that makes a good runner. Sounds like you regret not being more like Prefontaine....Everyone gripes to me that American marathoners are 'lazy-no-good-for-nothings'. My point is, many people have criticisms, but few have valid answers. I'd like to know what happened to the guys that kicked my ass in high school.

  

  Keith Brantly
  • Running
  • Criticism
  • Sound

• When you hear that my body has ceased to exist, please do not feel sad. Just look deeply and see that my life and work continue in so many friends, so many young people, in their own ways and through their work. I will continue in everyone and everything I have ever touched. I have nothinng to fear and nothing to regret.

  

  Chan Khong
  • People
  • Death
  • Body

• The past is littered with regret, the future bound by anxiety. The time is always now.

  

  Eric Van Lustbader
  • Regret
  • Anxiety
  • Bound

• I don't regret anything that I've turned down, and I don't regret anything that I've done, really.

  

  Nicholas John Frost
  • Done
  • Regret
  • Turned

• I will always cherish the times at JGR. The only thing that I regret is that we didn't win more races and/or championships.

  

  Bobby Labonte
  • Cherish
  • Races
  • Championships

• It's always the idle habits you acquire which you will regret. Father said that. That Christ was not crucified: he was worn away by a minute clicking of little wheels. That had no sister.

  

  William Faulkner
  • Christ
  • Habits
  • Wheels

• 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

• The worst part of getting older is realizing what you could have accomplished if you'd known then what you know now. Every old person, no matter how content they seem, feels that sense of regret. It's a bitch, but it's part of life.

  

  Earl Woods
  • Regret
  • Realizing
  • Accomplished

• He put a dark place in me and I can't forgive him for that. But it's a part of me now and how can I regret what I am - though it often makes me sad.

  

  Valerie Martin
  • Place
  • Regret
  • Forgive

• Everyone's taste is different. But I think the best way to defend against regrets after opening night is to try your best to tell the story you want to tell. In terms of smaller changes over time, I think good plays are like poems. Every syllable counts.

  

  Stephen Karam
  • Different
  • Thinking
  • Trying

• There is no man ... however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived a life, the memory of which is so unpleasant to him that he would gladly expunge it. And yet he ought not entirely to regret it, because he cannot be certain that he has indeed become a wise man -- so far as it is possible for any of us to be wise -- unless he has passed through all the fatuous or unwholesome incarnations by which that ultimate stage must be preceded.

  

  Marcel Proust
  • Wise
  • Stage
  • Memory

• A little misgiving in the beginning of things, means much regret in the end of them.

  

  Amelia Barr
  • Regret
  • Misgiving

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