I Regret Quotes

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

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.

Poor creatures. What did we do to you? With all our schemes and plans?

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say "yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Happiness is a strange thing. It is something I tend to recognize only after it has passed, when I realize I miss it.

It took hours to turn the clock back 30 seconds.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

I wish I had been born a storm. No heart, no tears, just a terrible gale'd been good.

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.

If you had to relive your life exactly as it was – same successes and failures, same happiness, same miseries, same mixture of comedy and tragedy – would you want to? Was it worth it?

Within a science fictional space, memory and regret are, when taken together, the set of necessary and sufficient elements required to produce a time machine.

You cannot see the past that did not happen any more than you can foresee the future.

So yes, I say things I regret constantly, and I just can't help it.

Being a child is such a shining gift, yet we don't know how precious it is until it's worn out and gone away.

In that moment I understood that the cruelest words in the universe are if only.

I wouldn't waste a day, not an hour, not a moment. Take what you want and damn caution. Live, enjoy. Feed ravenously. Or the biggest regret you'll have at the end of your life is wasted time.

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

We should have taken our chances back then, when we were young and beautiful and didn't even know it.

Already she could feel the stunning weight of a lifetime of regret for letting him go, and she knew that it was enought to bury her alive.

Only sometimes when we pick and choose among the rules we discover later that we have set aside something precious in the process.

I have stared into the light and you are all my shadows.

Huizi would say, never look back to the past. Never regret. Even if there is emptiness ahead, never look back.

The humiliation that Jane had felt turned to something else--grief perhaps, or regret. Regret that she had not known how to act with a boy, regret that she had not been wiser.

I hate New Year's Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven't yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn't matter.

It was like trying to bail out an ocean of water with a teaspoon.

Aw, Poke, you poor, kind, decent, stupid girl. You saved me and I let you down.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Maybe I might be repeating the same mistake again... But don't you think it is far better to regret what I have done than what I have not done yet...?

I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad

Things that are easily done are often much harder to undo. Sometimes, impossible.

I never regret anything.

I don't regret anything.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

My biggest regret is that I've assisted the media in making me into a cartoon character. I don't regret what has happened to me, but I regret the way I have dealt with it.

I don't regret anything that I ever did. You just look back at things and you either learn from them or get what you can from them but I wouldn't change what I did.

I don't regret either of my marriages - not for a minute.

Do I regret getting married? It's hard for me to say anything because ultimately we're talking about the mother of my child.

We are generally forced to choose one way or the other of distancing ourselves from Kant. I suppose I tend to choose the irreligious way. But I regret that Kant's path has not been followed.

This is not a love story. It is my life, and as such, there is love, loss, war, death, and sacrifice. It's about things that needed to be done and choices made. I regret nothing.

As an early adopter of the internet, I've changed as the internet has changed, and I regret a lot of the things that I used to believe or used to do.

Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.

Actually, the only thing I regret is not making more underground films and bringing them with me as historical documents.

I never regret anything... I just lie about it or change the story.

I don't regret at all saying that if I saw Bashar al-Assad using chemical weapons on his people that that would change my assessments in terms of what we were or were not willing to do in Syria.

I don't regret the excitement, because I do think that it helped us accomplish as much as we did.

When your life is nearly over, you will regret it if you look back and recall too many nights when you made excuses instead of making love.

I regret starting drinking alcohol, smoking cigarettes and joining Facebook.

I regret that I can't sit in the stands and watch me.

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.