I Regret Quotes

For every time we regret keeping still, there are about ten times we regret speaking up.

In the darkness things always go away from you. Memory holds you down while regret and sorrow kick hell out of you. The only help you'll get is a few hard drinks and morning.

Such squeamish youths as cannot bear to be connected with a little absurdity are not worth a regret.

I have no regrets about my life.

Address things now that could otherwise turn into regrets.

Let me tell you a few things about regret. There is no end to it. Do you regret the beginning which ended so badly, or just the ending itself?

REDEF is dedicated to my mother, who nurtured and encouraged my interest in everything and slightly regrets the day she taught me to always ask 'why?'

Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

Things couldn't stay the same forever.

Maybe that was how it was with all first loves. They own a little piece of your heart, always.

I release you. I evict you from my heart. Because if I don't do it now, I never will.

You'd rather make up a fantasy version of somebody in your head than be with a real person.

I have no regrets. The best thing to happen to me was for Lorne Michaels to hire me and fire me.

Failure is something I can deal with. Regret is not.

At peace? Who but the insane would ever be at peace? What person who has enjoyed life could possibly think one is enough? Who could live even a day and not feel the sweet ache of regret?

Being hurt by someone you really cared about, it makes me want to make them regret ever hurting my heart. Best way of doing that? Success. Get ready for it.

The past was gone. Nothing could change what had already been. Looking back at it, letting its wounds fester, indulging in regret was just a different, slower way to die. The living moved forward.

I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.

Jeb Bush is facing criticism after it was just revealed that he checked off his race as 'Hispanic' on a voter registration form back in 2009. When asked if he regrets it now, Bush said, 'Si.'

I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done. You can tune me out, you can click me off, it's OK. I am not going to bow to political correctness.

I have no regrets, except perhaps one: I should have tried harder to be a better actor.

C'mon Pudge. I'm teasing. You have to be tough. I didn't know how bad it was-- and I'm sorry, and they'll regret it-- but you have to be tough.

My regret was immediate and permanent and useless.

It is a sad day when one looks back and sees that his largest regrets have become some of the most integral elements of his dreams.

My only regret is that we didn't have more kids. I came from a family of four kids, but my wife and I just started too late.

I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

I will never, ever regret the things I've done. Because most days, all you have are places in your memory that you can go to.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't.

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

Do believe that if we fail to act in time, it will be the single biggest regret any of us has at the end of our lives.

Regret is distress over a desire unfulfilled or an action performed or not performed.

Do you really think I'm going to go on record telling you the craziest thing I've ever done. There's a reel in my brain, and I think I'll keep it there. No regrets, though.

As I became very defined in my personal politics, I turned down some films that I slightly regret now; I'm not going to say what they were.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

Regret is a pilgrimage back to the place where I was free to choose.

Who knows how fast a second-guess can travel? Who has ever measured the exact speed of regret?

If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.

I always wanted to be a doctor and go to art school, but I thought Id regret it if I didnt act.

In middle age we are apt to reach the horrifying conclusion that all sorrow, all pain, all passionate regret and loss and bitter disillusionment are self-made

If you Google 'regret and tattoo,' you will get 11.5 million hits.

Your own regrets may not be as ugly as you think they are.

He let out a long sorry sigh and I love that look on his face, that disappointment. I understand now why girls resist,just for that sweet look of regret.

Just remember that forgiveness is so much easier than regret.

I think that my parents' only regret is that they wasted so much money on my stupid prestigious university degree.

I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.

While it is tempting to play it safe, the more we're willing to risk, the more alive we are. In the end, what we regret most are the chances we never took.

I feel a degree of regret that Marshall did not push on and say 'abolish the GLC' because I think it would have been a major saving and would have released massive resources for productive use.

Silence is not the absence of sound. It's a physical place, a destination with value and meaning in a chaotic world, somewhere arrived at with difficulty and left with regret.

I think it's very good to have regrets, to learn how to live with them.