About Regrets Quotes

#1. I am not a person who can really sit around and think about regrets because with every bad experience that you have, there is weirdly something good that comes from it.

Winona Ryder

#2. Funny thing about regrets. I don't lament what I've done, but rather, what I didn't do.

J.A. Konrath

#3. Life is all about regrets. Don't let those regrets be that you've hurt someone who really loves you. Keep those to a minimum. It's bad enough when you have to carry them through a single lifetime. When you carry them through thousands, it's brutal.-Kyrian

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#4. There are some things "Sorry" can't fix. Life is all about regrets.

Sherrilyn Kenyon

#5. Regrets are a waste of time and waste of time brings about regrets. It's the best ironic cycle after life and death!

Adhish Mazumder

#6. Regrets. Sure you think about regrets, but it's not regret for the things you've done that occupy you, as much as it is a longing for the things you'll never have a chance to do.

Lori Lansens

#7. If ever you get to be my age," said the old woman, "you will know all there is to know about regrets, and you will know that one more, here or there, will make no difference in the long run.

Neil Gaiman

#8. In terms of my own behavior and activity, the funny thing about regrets and saying "I'm sorry," is that there's so much I would do differently and want to do differently moving forward.

Bill Ayers

#9. Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.

Samuel Goldwyn Jr.

#10. You know what I regret the most? Trinity says, her voice just above a whisper.
I don't answer. All I can think about is how crappy it is that my fourteen-year-old sister already has regrets.

Paula Stokes

#11. NOEL: You can get excited about the future. The past won't mind.

Hillary DePiano

#12. Life was about taking chances. Going for what you wanted so that you didn't get old and have pages of regrets. Sometimes you won and sometimes you lost, as much as I hated it.

Mariana Zapata

#13. With every decision you make in your life, you're going to have some regrets about the way it goes. You just have to chose which set of regrets you can live with the best, and try to minimize the amount of regrets you have.

John Rzeznik

#14. I don't have a lot of regrets about the way I've lived my life. Not because I haven't made mistakes - I've made plenty. But what's the point of regret? You can't undo the past.

Cindy Crawford

#15. I don't have any regrets about not having kids. I've just never had those maternal feelings. I am a nurturer by nature, but I nurture adults: my friends, the people I work with. I don't want to nurture children.

Barbara Windsor

#16. Meditation is not meant to help us avoid problems or run away from difficulties. It is meant to allow positive healing to take place. To meditate is to learn how to stop - to stop being carried away by our regrets about the past, our anger or despair in the present, or our worries about the future.

Nhat Hanh

#17. The only person I have regrets about is Miles Davis. He and I had become good friends after we did a photo shoot, and coincidentally, we kept running into each other at parties and stuff. I regret not having written a hit for Miles Davis.

Nile Rodgers

#18. I did have regrets these past six months," he told me quietly. "I found it a curse as much as a blessing, all that time to think. About the things I could have said, that I should have told you ...

Karen Chance

#19. He had no idea about the 'loving deeply' part. Scarlet was the one love he'd had. They'd married the weekend after they'd discovered they both like sangria. He'd thought they were waltzing through life and it turned out she was line dancing.

Jodi Thomas

#20. I'm torn about late parenting. I believe people should spend their twenties living and having fun and not having any regrets later. I also think people in their thirties generally make better parents but so many of my friends are having trouble - myself included - as fathers get older.

Eric McCormack

#21. Ain't no deserving, or otherwise,' Silo said, his bass voice rolling out from deep in his chest. 'There's what is, and what ain't, and there's what you do about it. Regret's just a way to make you feel okay when you're not making amends. A man can waste a life with regrets.

Chris Wooding

#22. An Indigo Bunting let out a trill, a cheery song, reminding me of better days, of hope and happiness and all the lofty promises a blue canary can sing about. I closed my eyes and took a deep breath of the heady morning air. Looking within myself, I searched for the man I once was.

Cheryl R Cowtan

#23. Most people's major life regrets are not about the things they've done, but about the things they've not done, the goals they never reached, the type of lover or friend or parent they wished they'd been but know they failed to be.

Thom Hartmann

#24. When I look back on my life, I don't have regrets about what I didn't do. If I'd become a musician, it could have ruined my life.

Clint Eastwood

#25. I don't expect you to have no regrets about who you've lost along the way. How could you not have been loved before, when I love you so much?

Deborah Harkness

#26. Most of us have spent our lives caught up in plans, expectations, ambitions for the future; in regrets, guilt or shame about the past. To come into the present is to stop the war.

Jack Kornfield

#27. The thing about past love is that they exist, only in your fantasy as a fantasy.

Hafsa Shah

#28. The discontented believe that their regrets are about the past.

Mason Cooley

#29. 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.

Joseph Epstein

#30. I have to say that I have no regrets about my decision to become a priest or about the major directions my ministry has taken me ... I have been and am happy as a priest, and I have never been lonely ... I could have used a bit more solitude.

Andrew Greeley

#31. I have no regrets about my career or retiring. Not once have I thought 'Gosh, I wish I was back on the court.

Rebecca Lobo

#32. Today is the day you can wipe away all those regrets you've been carrying around for far too long. Today is the day that you can put your past in your past, and let God directs your future.

Robin Bertram

#33. Like anyone gets over being brutally murdered by a one night stand. Talk about morning after regrets.

Sharon Stevenson

#34. With anything in life, I think that's when you start stressing yourself out - when you start worrying about the things that are out of your control. What I can control is being at my best every day and having no regrets at the end of each day. That's what I plan on doing.

Scott Tolzien

#35. Positive lessons learned... Blessings recognized... Humor found... No regrets.

Tanya Masse

#36. One of my regrets would be that I will never again have the pleasure of sneaking into a cafe, any cafe I like, sitting down and diving into my world and no one knowing what I am doing and no one bothering about me and being totally anonymous, that was fantastic

J.K. Rowling

#37. Don't let regrets about the past or worries about the future rob you of your enjoyment of the present.

Nicky Gumbel

#38. I have no regrets about my life.

Jane Badler

#39. From Olsen's Nation: "Through the power of our diplomacy, a world that was once divided about how to deal with Iran's nuclear program now stands as one. Standing as one, the world now sincerely regrets Iran's nuclear program." - President Bodvar Olsen, fifth State of the Union address

Randy Quarles

#40. I had enough time being single to know I have no regrets about being married!

Jennifer Connelly

#41. Not making a decision is the worst thing you can do. So long as you feel you made the right decision based on the information you had at that time, there's no need to fret about it. If it fails, you'll know what to do next time.

Bo Schembechler

#42. I have no regrets about launching Salon. For the life of me, I can't imagine doing anything else.

David Talbot

#43. I would much rather have regrets about not doing what people said, than regretting not doing what my heart led me to and wondering what life had been like if I'd just been myself.

Brittany Finamore

#44. Something about her was different that day. In an instant, she swallowed her regrets, choked back her past, and swore to make history every damn day. There I stood, struggling to make sense of the strength of a woman.

J. Raymond

#45. He opened his mouth, but stopped as he beheld her smile. Though she had no regrets about her choice, she felt something strangely like disappointment when he said, As you wish.

Sarah J. Maas

#46. The biggest regrets people have aren't about what they did, but what they didn't do.

Beverly K. Bachel

#47. Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S.

John Pople

#48. I've learned to have absolutely no regrets about any jokes I've ever done.

Joan Rivers

#49. 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.

Jackie French

#50. I've wrecked and ravaged half my life in the pursuit of women, and I suffer the pangs of about seventeen regrets
the seventeen who got away.

Edward Abbey

#51. I feel that I've worked with a lot of interesting people, and I have no regrets. I'm just curious about what I might have done if I'd had people in my life then who did explain what the publicity game was.

Annabella Sciorra

#52. There's a lot of regrets about last year - maybe turning up was the biggest regret about it

Alan Sugar

#53. I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.

Chuck Yeager

#54. It's pathetic to have regrets about fashion. Things to do with my life, yes, I have regrets there.

Simon Le Bon

#55. I retired when the Supreme Court rose for the summer recess in 2009, and a couple of weeks later I drove north from Washington with no regrets about the prior 19 years or about the decision to try living a more normal life for whatever time might remain.

David Souter

#56. And children? 'I don't have any regrets about not having had children. What's the point? It's just something else to beat yourself up over.

Zoe Wanamaker

#57. We can't negate television. Unfortunately, I do feel in many ways that it did kill my movie career. It did do that. But would I not do it again? Do I have any regrets about doing it? No.

Shirley Jones

#58. What about you?" he asked, his words not much more than a mumble. "Regrets?"

"Many," Skuduggery said.

Tesseract's breath rattled in his chest. "That's the goo thing about living. You get to make up for past mistakes."

"Or make brand-new ones.

Derek Landy

#59. I'm thinking about past events. I'm interested in recall, exact recall, of what was said, who said it and to whom. I want to know the truth, undistorted by time and revision and wishes and regrets.

Dana Spiotta

#60. Later, Xander said, "It's not about you, you know. What Mimi hates is how her life has turned out. It isn't how she thought it would be back when she was your age and on the top of the world.

Julia Claiborne Johnson

#61. Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets.

Henry A. Kissinger

#62. Man down is a song about a girl who has committed a murder that she regrets and is completely remorseful about.

Rihanna

#63. It feels good to know that if I died tomorrow I would have absolutely no regrets about things I wanted to do in life but did not try.

Karen E. Quinones Miller

#64. What I say is what I say, I don't always say the right thing, I don't always say the politically correct thing. I don't have any regrets about that.

Bruce Willis

#65. When I think about my life, I don't have any regrets.

Auliq Ice

#66. I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

Sugar Ray Leonard

#67. When you no longer worry about the future, and no longer have regrets about the past, you exist purely in the moment. If you concentrate on that moment you instinctively know, that as long as you have life you have hope.
Enjoy the moment. Breathe easily. Relax.

Paul Wilson

#68. The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and annihilated every waking moment of the last twenty years. Anything, rather than feel.

Rachel Joyce

#69. I just wish, maybe, that I'd started conducting earlier. I was about 40 when I started. Apart from that I don't really have any regrets. Is that bad?

Neville Marriner

#70. If you are looking for a happy book about beautiful people, this is the wrong story. If you are looking for a narrative without emotion, without regrets, and without mistakes, this is definitely the wrong story.

R.K. Ryals

#71. I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.

Amanda Donohoe

#72. Thirty-three percent of all of our regrets pertain to decisions we made about education.

Kathryn Schulz

#73. I had a friend who worked at a hospice, and he said people in their final moments don't discuss their successes, awards or what books they wrote or what they accomplished. They only talk about their loves and their regrets, and I think that's very telling.

Brad Pitt

#74. I have a lot of regrets about what I've done. If I had to do it over again, I never would have left the Mets. I'm very thankful for all that Mr. (George) Steinbrenner did for me when I was with the Yankees, but I wish I had stayed in New York with the Mets.

Darryl Strawberry

#75. I can't figure out how they decide on those things. So I don't have any regrets about anything that I did that didn't get a lot of people to see it.

William Petersen

#76. I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life.

Ike Turner

#77. Before you choose whom to love, take a look at yourself, choose your own word, think about how and reassess your time when you have given life to love, Know your ready or not and make sure you are not there to hurt making regrets on your door and paint the word I wish on your window.

Auliq Ice

#78. I'm trying to avoid having regrets about missing opportunities. That would be the worst thing. Like having an audience waiting, and not working hard enough, and coming out with a record that disappointed them.

James Mercer

#79. Looking back at it now, I really feel like it was a gift because I don't know if I have the talent to become a prima ballerina. It's such a hard job to have. I don't have any regrets about it.

Diane Kruger

#80. For me, the most powerful way to write about something is through the absence of it. Rather than writing about what it was to become a new mother, I wrote, for example, a father facing death and addressing his estranged son about the regrets of his relationship.

Nicole Krauss

#81. If I only had one more sermon to preach before I died, it would be about my Lord Jesus Christ. And I think that when we get to the end of our ministry, one of our regrets will be that we did not preach more of Him. I am sure no minister will ever repent of having preached Him too much.

Charles Spurgeon

#82. I don't remember much, which is a kind of mercy,I suppose. I see it in patterns.
Sometimes it's like a scribble on a wall- no matter how many times you paint over it, a bit of it always comes through, but not enough to put together the whole.
I try not to think about it too much.

Amitav Ghosh

#83. She was an open book. She had nothing to hide. She had an air about her. An air of conviction. She had lived and had no regrets. She was compulsively unapologetic about the choices that she had made.

C.M. Frank

#84. One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward you will wish you had done something different.

Lemony Snicket

#85. MY REGRETS ARE ABOUT THE PEOPLE I COULDN'T SAVE - Marines, soldiers, my buddies. I still feel their loss. I still ache for my failure to protect them.

Chris Kyle

#86. I am so grateful for One Day At A Time, even though for years and years and years people would go, "Oh, you were on One Day At A Time." I [am on the show] for about seven months and then this haunts me for the rest of my life. No, I had no regrets.

Richard Masur

#87. I have no regrets about my work. To be a photographer was a gift of the gods. I can't imagine anything that would have been better.

Ruth Bernhard

#88. I am not a regret type person. I don't believe in regrets. Lots of things you would do differently if you'd do it again, but you don't do it again, so you don't think about it. But that goes for life in general. You're only dealing with the knowledge you have at that time.

Clint Eastwood

#89. Fifty Shades Of Grey proved you can write about a dude choking women and shoving stuff up their butts but heaven forbid if you tell a legitimate joke about it. Sure I doubled the number of feminists who hate me, but I also doubled the number of shows I have on TV. No regrets.

Daniel Tosh

#90. You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way.

Martin Landau

#91. Can you experience nostalgia for something that hasn't happened? We talk of 'regrets' about the course of our lives, when we are almost certain we have taken the wrong decision; but one can also be enveloped in a sweet and mysterious euphoria, a sort of nostalgia for what might have been. Meeting

Antoine Laurain

#92. I don't have any regrets, really, except that one. I wanted to write about you, about us, really. Do you know what I mean? I wanted to write about everything, the life we're having and the lives we might have had. I wanted to write about all the ways we might have died.

Michael Cunningham

#93. Life is too short to have debts and doubts,
Pay the bills, no regrets, be up and about.

Ana Claudia Antunes

#94. I was the guy who was constantly speaking out against the Vietnam War. I have no regrets about that.

George McGovern

#95. I loved doing 'Pennies from Heaven.' Because you have to understand that I'd been doing comedy for 15 to 20 years, and suddenly along came the opportunity to do this beautiful film. It was so emotional to me. I loved it. I don't think it was a good career move, but I have no regrets about doing it.

Steve Martin

#96. There have been many articles about the top regrets that people have when they're dying. They are always, "I missed the ordinary moments." We miss those ordinary moments, and yet, that's what we're trying to distract ourselves from at the same time.

Geneen Roth

#97. Regrets about the journey, maybe, but not the destination.

Nicholas Sparks

#98. And he had a theory about fear. It was all about regret. If you make what you want out of life and don't bullshit yourself about your choices, then there are no regrets, and a man without regret isn't afraid of anything.

Mark Allen Smith

#99. But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.

Poppy Z. Brite

#100. I had drunk our great cultural Kool-Aid about regret, which is that lamenting things that occurred in the past is an absolute waste of time, that we should always look forward and not backward, and that one of the noblest and best things we can do is strive to live a life free of regrets.

Kathryn Schulz