Quotes with regret

  • The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
  • One must always regret that law of growth which renders necessary that kittens should spoil into demure cats, and bright, joyous school-girls develop into the spiritless, crystallized beings denominated young ladies.
  • The one regret I have about my own abortions is that they cost money that might otherwise have been spent on something more pleasurable, like taking the kids to movies and theme parks.
  • Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
  • At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...
  • A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
  • 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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  • Henry David Thoreau To regret deeply is to live afresh.
    Henry David Thoreau
    American writer (1817 - 1862)
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  • Carlos Castaneda A man goes to knowledge as he goes to war, wideawake, with fear, with respect, and with absolute assurance. Going to knowledge or going to war in any other manner is a mistake, and whoever makes it will live to regret his steps.
    Carlos Castaneda
    American author and anthropologist (1925 - 1998)
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  • Bahman Ghobadi Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.
    Bahman Ghobadi
    Iranian-Kurdish film director, producer and writer (1969 - )
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  • Barbara Bush At the end of your life, you will never regret not having passed one more test, not winning one more verdict or not closing one more deal. You will regret time not spent with a husband, a friend, a child, or a parent.
    Barbara Bush
    American First Lady (1925 - 2018)
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  • Ben Gibbard At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder...
    The Meaning Of Life
    Ben Gibbard
    American singer, songwriter and guitarist (1976 - )
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  • Samuel Butler Because they did not see merit where they should have seen it, people, to express their regret, will go and leave a lot of money to the very people who will be the first to throw stones at the next person who has anything to say and finds a difficulty in getting a hearing.
    Samuel Butler
    English poet (1835 - 1902)
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  • Charles Caleb Colton Bed is a bundle of paradoxes; we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; and we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
    Charles Caleb Colton
    English writer (1777 - 1832)
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  • Sri Swami Sivananda Do not brood over your past mistakes and failures as this will only fill your mind with grief, regret and depression. Do not repeat them in the future.
    Sri Swami Sivananda
    Indian Hindu spiritual teacher (1887 - 1963)
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  • Jeanette Winterson Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
    Lighthousekeeping (2006) 116
    Jeanette Winterson
    English writer (1959 - )
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  • Jean Rostand Falsity cannot keep an idea from being beautiful; there are certain errors of such ingenuity that one could regret their not ranking among the achievements of the human mind.
    Jean Rostand
    French writer (1894 - 1977)
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  • C. S. Lewis Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
    C. S. Lewis
    Irish novelist and poet (1898 - 1963)
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  • Andrew Jackson I am a Senator against my wishes and feelings, which I regret more than any other of my life.
    Andrew Jackson
    American president (7th) (1767 - 1845)
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  • Alice Walker I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.
    Alice Walker
    American Author, Critic (1944 - 1982)
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  • Bette Davis I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business.
    Bette Davis
    American Actress, Producer (1908 - 1989)
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  • Jean Paul Getty I hate to be a failure. I hate and regret the failure of my marriages. I would gladly give all my millions for just one lasting marital success.
    Jean Paul Getty
    American-born British industrialist, founder of Getty Oil Company (1892 - 1976)
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  • Lee Iacocca I have always found that if I move with seventy-five percent or more of the facts that I usually never regret it. It's the guys who wait to have everything perfect that drive you crazy.
    Lee Iacocca
    American businessman and CEO of Chrysler (1924 - 2019)
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  • Winston Churchill I must place on record my regret that the human race ever learned to fly.
    Winston Churchill
    English statesman (1874 - 1965)
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  • Publilius Syrus I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
    Publilius Syrus
    Syrian poet (85 - 43)
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  • Nathan Hale I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.
    Nathan Hale
     
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  • Zora Neale Hurston I regret all of my books.
    Zora Neale Hurston
    American novelist, short story writer, folklorist and anthropologist (1891 - 1960)
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