I Regret Quotes

My only regret with Timothy McVeigh is he did not go to the New York Times Building.

My life has appeared unclothed in court, detail by detail, death-bone witness by death-bone witness, and I was shamed at the verdict.

I shall leave the world without regret, for it hardly contains a single good listener.

Living in regret will become your biggest regret.

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.

I know that I will always regret it later in life if I had turned down the chance to play at another great club like Real Madrid...

I haven't had a single moment of terror since they told me [I was dying]. My only regret is to die four pages too soon. If I can finish, then I'm quite happy to go.

My biggest style regret is that I can't fit into the models' clothes.

God gave me a very good hand to play over my 88 years. I have no regrets.

It is seldom that minds long exercised in business have formed any habits of conversing with themselves, and in the loss of power they principally regret the want of occupation.

Interviewer: What is your greatest regret? Gorey: That I don't have one

The Suicide, as she is falling, Illuminated by the moon, Regrets her act, and finds appalling The thought she will be dead so soon.

We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.

My head has got regrets, but I haven't.

Face the past without regret, the future without fear, and live in the present with gratitude.

I do not regret having braved public opinion, when I knew it was wrong and was sure it would be merciless.

It gripped her hand gently. 'Regret is for humans,' it said. She laughed. 'Really?' The machine shrugged and let go of her hand. 'Oh, no. It's just something we tell ourselves.

If everything in the past has value, then there’s no reason for regret, ever.

We have years to converse with someone, to blurt and rant, to explain our desires and anger and regrets - and oh how we squander those moments.

But just because you bury something, that doesn't mean it stops existing. Those feelings, they'd been there all along. All that time. I had to face it.

What is first love worth, except to prepare for a second? What does second love bring? Only regret for the first.

The inability to experience regret is one of the diagnostic characteristics of sociopaths.

Regret is just a waste of time for fools.

Having regrets and things, it just takes your time away.

Life is all about change. We cling to what we know and what we have, and then we lose it, and then we regret not having it and try to replace it by finding and changing to something else.

They're always looking forward to going places they're just coming back from, or regretting doing things they haven't yet done. They say hello when they mean goodbye.

Most self-laceration is more noisy than painful.

Regret leads to overeating and naps.

Show enough regret, and your refusal will inspire gratitude.

I don't feel a yearning or a sense of missed opportunities. I don't have many regrets. So that's a nice feeling. To have no regrets and still have enough sense of adventure to take on risk.

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

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

You are full of wonderful possibilities. Do something with them. The most painful regrets, those which never go away, are regrets of things not done, things never attempted.

In every creepy movie ever made, the barn is the prime nesting ground for the things you don't know you're looking for and always regret finding.

One of life's regrets is that you didn't always tell the truth, and now it's too late, because the truth has changed.

For every person who atones, a hundred others find regret sufficient.

I can't regret until the end. And I won't regret then, either.

Being hungover is like winning the lottery, only they pay you in regret.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

Art is a shadow of what a person is thinking... a small glimpse of what they hold inside. Little secrets, regrets, joys... every line has its own meaning.

I truly believe that regret is the only wound the soul does not recover from, and so I'm trying to live without regrets. ... Each day is another chance to be swept away.

One series of notes, high and delicate, sang of a sweet moonlight kiss gone sour; another line of music rippled with regret over opportunities forever lost.

I’m sick of being everyone’s regret. My mother died in shame because she’d borne me. My father and brother despise me and my sister can barely look me in the eye! (Acheron)

I didn't want to hurt you," she blurted. "I never wanted to be someone you would regret. I'm not afraid for me. I'm afraid for you.

Regrets are so far from reality.

Why cannot the ear be closed to its own destruction? Or the glistening eye to the poison of a smile?

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

I don't dwell in the past; I don't wallow in old events and emotions. I don't waste time on regret. No use going over and over the details of what already happened.