I Regret Quotes

Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.

Act', implores the Ghost of Future Regret. 'I shan't give you another chance'. [and so Jacob does] 'Damned fool,' groans the Demon of Present Regret. 'What have you done?

I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.

Duty doesn't need to call; it only needs to whisper. And if you heed the call, no matter what happens, you have no need for regret." Odd Thomas

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

Then kiss me, Claire," he whispered, "And know that you are more to me than life, and I have no regret.

I can't remember any regrets, to be honest with you.

"Do you have any regrets?" Of course I do.

There are two types of pain. There is the pain of loss, which you can recover. And then, there is the pain of regret which never goes away.

Any survey of the free world's defense structure cannot fail to impart a feeling of regret that so much of our effort and resources must be devoted to armaments.

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

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.

children like change - for one thing, they never anticipate regret.

Regret is a toxin that I try not to allow in my body.

There are two kinds of sorry. There is the sorry imbued with regret. And a pure sorry. The kind that is merely asking for forgiveness, nothing more.

Did she ever regret her choices? Were her decisions more clear-cut than mine - or are there always shades of gray whe it comes to matters of the heart?

That's it. With equal parts regret and relief, the Jane's Addiction experiment is at an end.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

You know how sometimes when you're drunk you say something you sort of regret... to Ace Frehley?

Many a husband lives to regret the extravagant fee he bestowed upon the minister who sentenced him.

As past presidents of the Liberal Party, we deeply regret and are greatly saddened by the precipitate action by some party officers and members at the Manila Hotel.

I do think it's important to live in the present because in that way you won't be living in a state of regret.

What kind of heart does one have to have in order to be able to get rid of these, without regret, as if they were empty beer cans?

A woman often thinks she regrets the lover, when she only regrets the love.

While it is important to trash the governor, it should be done in the context of regret, sadness and balance.

it is a lean employment of time to brood on what might have happened along some other turning.

To this day people will say, "What do you think about doing Playboy?" I feel honored to be a part of that bit of history with Hugh Hefner. No regrets.

O the anguish of the thought that we can never atone to our dead for the stinted affection we gave them.

Only a fool has no regrets and I'm not a fool.

I do believe in growing old gracefully, and when the time comes that I would look silly performing on stage, I'll be prepared to give it up without regrets.

The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before going in with [Larry] Holmes. That would have made all the difference.

I've been very careful. I've gone through pretty much everything. I'm very careful not to let go of the prized possessions, or too much of it that I'll regret in the future.

No one regrets having changed a lightbulb.

I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.

Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

There have been loads of times I have regretted meeting Paul because I was so happy in my old life.

They will wait, well disposed, for others to remedy evil, that they may no longer have have it to regret.

We regret mistakes were made.

No trouble ever got fixed late at night," he said. "Midnight is for regrets.

Among even the happiest married couples there are always moments of regret.

My biggest regret is probably that it took me so long to find out what I want to do.

Defaced ruins of architecture and statuary, like the wrinkles of decrepitude of a once beautiful woman, only make one regret that one did not see them when they were enchanting.

Regret is pointless. I never do anything without first deciding to do it based on facts and feelings, and if it doesn't work out how I hoped, oh well, there's another notch on my experience belt.

Of course many bars in Manhasset, like bars everywhere, were nasty places, full of pickled people marinating in regret.

How can you regret helping a suffering patient?

There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible.

One of my extraordinary regrets about my death is not so much that it's going to happen but simply that I'll never know what happens next.

I walk around thinking job to job, trying to not have regrets.