Quotes with regret

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  • Jean Cocteau One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.
    Jean Cocteau
    French writer (1889 - 1963)
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  • Ernest Hemingway Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, ''What will you have, sir?'' And I said, ''A glass of hemlock.''
    Ernest Hemingway
    American writer (1899 - 1961)
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  • Henry Louis Mencken Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it.
    Henry Louis Mencken
    American journalist and critic (1880 - 1956)
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  • Emile Wiechert So far as modern science is concerned, we have to abandon completely the idea that by going into the realm of the small we shall reach the ultimate foundations of the universe. I believe we can abandon this idea without any regret. The universe is infinit
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  • Oscar Wilde The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.
    Oscar Wilde
    Irish writer (1854 - 1900)
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  • Kahlil Gibran The chemist who can extract from his heart's elements, compassion, respect, longing, patience, regret, surprise, and forgiveness and compound them into one can create that atom which is called love.
    Kahlil Gibran
    Libian painter and writer (1883 - 1931)
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  • Henri-Frédéric Amiel The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.
    Henri-Frédéric Amiel
    Swiss philosopher and poet (1821 - 1881)
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  • Barbara Ehrenreich 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.
    Barbara Ehrenreich
    American author and political activist (1941 - 2022)
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  • William Hazlitt The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.
    William Hazlitt
    English writer (1778 - 1830)
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  • Aaron Burr There is a maxim, 'Never put off till tomorrow what you can do today.' It is a maxim for sluggards. A better reading of it is, 'Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow,' because something may occur to make you regret your premature action.
    Aaron Burr
    American politician and lawyer (1756 - 1836)
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  • Britt Ekland Think of your pension and start saving. Like my father, I have been a spendthrift, and I regret that.
    Britt Ekland
    Swedish actress and singer (1942 - )
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  • Bode Miller This year I just want to enjoy myself. I could give up tomorrow without having the slightest regret. I could keep away from this world for a year and then perhaps start to feel the desire to prove something to myself again.
    Interview with Gazzetta dello Sport, 16 Feb. 2006 [1]
    Bode Miller
    American former World Cup alpine ski racer (1977 - )
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  • Alphonse Karr Uncertainty is the worst of all evils until the moment when reality makes us regret uncertainty.
    Alphonse Karr
    French writer and editor of Le Figaro (1808 - 1890)
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  • Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.
    Karl Wilhelm Von Humboldt
    German statesman (1767 - 1835)
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  • George Holbrook Jackson We are more inclined to regret our virtues than our vices; but only the very honest will admit this.
    George Holbrook Jackson
    British journalist, writer and publisher (1874 - 1948)
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  • Arthur Schopenhauer We can come to look upon the deaths of our enemies with as much regret as we feel for those of our friends, namely, when we miss their existence as witnesses to our success.
    Arthur Schopenhauer
    German philosopher (1788 - 1860)
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  • Jim Rohn We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.
    Jim Rohn
    American entrepreneur, author and motivational speaker (1930 - 2009)
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  • Junot Diaz You can't regret the life you didn't lead.
    Het korte maar wonderbaarlijke leven van Oscar Wao (2008) 31
    Junot Diaz
    Dominican-American writer (1968 - )
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  • Richard Martin Stern You must never regret what might have been. The past that did not happen is as hidden from us as the future we cannot see.
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  • Benjamin Disraeli Youth is a blunder, manhood is a struggle and old age a regret.
    Benjamin Disraeli
    English statesman and writer (1804 - 1881)
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