I Regret Things Quotes

#1. I regret things all the time. I've never regretted not saying something. I've only regretted saying something.

Chrissy Teigen

#2. I had no idea what I was getting into with Brayelle Bates. I didn't know about such things when I was nine. I didn't know. But I would never regret a moment with her. Never.

J.A. Redmerski

#3. My dream is to do things until 'I have no regrets'

Lee Taemin

#4. I always ended up doing things I didn't want to do today just so I didn't regret not doing them tomorrow.

Hilary Grossman

#5. I don't regret not going to college. Students learn up to the age of 21, then stop. I'll always be learning - the things that really matter in life. How to sign on, how to get free food, how to be streetwise.

Caitlin Moran

#6. All of life is a battle against fear. We fight it on one front, and it sneaks around to our flank." He paused, looked kindly at her. "Yes, Father. I understand." "I regret many things I've done," he said, "but most of all I regret those moments when I said to Fear, 'You are my master.

S.D. Smith

#7. I'll teach my kids right from wrong, but I'm never going to teach them that they can't have fun. They'll make mistakes; they'll do things they regret, like we all have.

Louise Nurding

#8. There's a quote of hers [Lucille Ball] that I've always loved: 'I guess I would rather regret the things I've done than to regret the things I've never done.

Carol Burnett

#9. Do not regret the things you didn't do," Tamika said. "If you're going to regret something, it has to be the things you have done. We are not made up of the inverse of our experiences. If we were what we didn't do, I would be a ballerina.

Rose Christo

#10. One of the big things that I focus on is not having regrets, just taking every opportunity I have and going for it.

Chris Weidman

#11. Bunter: "I assure your lordship that for the firsttime in my existence I regret that I have made no practical study of campanology."
Wimsey: "I am always so delighted to find that there are things you cannot do.

Dorothy L. Sayers

#12. Well, it was most likely too late; there would not be time for me to flagellate myself for every dishonorable deed in that list, nor any chance to make good the harms I'd done. Minor harms, to be sure, in the scheme of things; but large enough to regret.

Clive Barker

#13. I think all people have things in their past they need forgiveness for. In their present as well. And they need to be extended grace for what they regret.

James L. Rubart

#14. I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

Andrew Fastow

#15. I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

James Nesbitt

#16. I regret that it has been necessary for me in this lecture to administer a large dose of four-dimensional geometry. I do not apologize, because I am really not responsible for the fact that nature in its most fundamental aspect is four-dimensional. Things are what they are.

Alfred North Whitehead

#17. TV actress Lucille Ball once remarked, 'I'd rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I've not done.' This

Ashwin Sanghi

#18. I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.

Lucille Ball

#19. Things don't so much end as disappear. They don't so much begin as turn up. You think there will be a time to say goodbye, but people have often gone before you know about it. And I don't just mean the dying.

Rachel Joyce

#20. I'd rather regret the things I have done than the things that I haven't.

Lucille Ball

#21. I think people assume I'm perfect. I'm not. I make mistakes. I do things I regret. I'm stubborn.

Hilary Duff

#22. 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.

John McGahern

#23. If I had written King Lear, I would regret it all my life afterwards. Because that work is so big, that its defects show as huge, its monstrous defects, things even minimal in between some scenes and their possible perfection. It's not the sun with spots; it's a broken greek statue.

Fernando Pessoa

#24. I can say I made a lot of mistakes, but I don't regret things. Because at least I didn't spend a life standing outside, wondering what living would be like.

Sarah Dessen

#25. When I look at my life I realise that the mistakes I have made, the things I really regret, were not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.

Jeanette Winterson

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

Julian Barnes

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

Jenny Slate

#28. I regret not the things I have done, only those I have yet to do.

George Lucas

#29. This isn't how things were supposed to happen. I was supposed to be me.

Not this.

Aaron Dries

#30. There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.

Suzi Quatro

#31. I always think about opportunity and how you regret the things you don't do.

Patrick Stump

#32. It wasn't peaceful, no light at the end of a tunnel or any of that crap. Only fear and regret for all the things I'd left undone.

Emily Bleeker

#33. I had a dream that I saw shooting stars with you. Two things that will come close to never happening: Seeing shooting stars, and being with you.

Karen Quan

#34. All I know is, I was trying to win the football game. And the bottom line is, you have to do what you think is right. You have to go with your gut. And if you don't do that, then I think you regret a lot of things later on.

Mike Singletary

#35. It has always felt like a failure that Bjorn and I couldn't keep our family together. You never get it back, but to this day I don't regret splitting up. The reason behind our separation is one of those things I definitely don't want to go into!

Agnetha Faltskog

#36. I did some things I regret, and I know there are people who think they know me. I've heard the things they say, and some of them are hurtful.

Lamar Odom

#37. I don't talk about my past; people ask me about it. I've done things I'm ashamed of, but one thing I can honestly say is that things I've done that I regret, I've never done twice. I work really hard at that.

Art Alexakis

#38. People always ask me, 'What is it that you regret?' And I say, 'nothing, because I could not buy what I've learned.' And I apply those things to my life I learn. And hopefully, hopefully it helps me to be a better human in the future and make better choices.

Katy Perry

#39. I don't regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

Marc Warren

#40. No," I say. "I didn't know that," and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

Nina LaCour

#41. I drink to remember I smoke to forget / Some things to be proud of, some stuff to regret.

Jake Bugg

#42. One of the things I regret is that too often in our society a person's whole identity is shaped by their sexuality, or by their sexual orientation. In good Catholic eyes, a person's sexual orientation does not matter.

Vincent Nichols

#43. I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

Rory Cochrane

#44. Then trust me. I think the safest place for me is with you, and I won't regret it. I don't regret anything. The things that we do and the things that happen ... to us," I gulped and pushed down memories, "make us who we are.

Shelly Crane

#45. I like challenges and I don't believe in failure. I don't believe in regrets. I believe suffering, failure - all those concepts - are things that are absolutely necessary to make us the best people that we can be, the best at whatever we want to do.

Jim Carrey

#46. I tried. I tried to burn that memory of my regret. But I wasn't dead yet, I was just on my way to dying, and it's harder to burn memories when you've still got life left. When you're alive you have to learn how to live with things like regret.

Christopher Barzak

#47. I would rather regret the things I have done than the things I have not

Lucille Ball

#48. Hansen: I do not look back because I cannot change the past. You should not, either. That is one of the first things you must learn as a hunter - do not regret what you do not have.

Ruby Dixon

#49. I've done a lot of things that I regret.

R. Kelly

#50. But at the same time, I don't let myself regret things to the point that I'm paralyzed.

Moby

#51. I live without regrets. There are certain things I have done, mistakes that I made, that I would change, but I don't regret them at all, because I've learnt from them.

Lindsay Lohan

#52. I am a man of passions, capable of and subject to doing more or less foolish things- which I happen to regret, more or less, afterwards.

Vincent Van Gogh

#53. If you see something that speaks to you and you can swing it, don't question. I don't regret anything that I've ever bought, only the things that slipped away.

Bryan Batt

#54. Some of the things that I regret most in my life happened when I was drinking. I'm just not good with alcohol. And I don't give a damn what time of the day it is, I just drink too much.

Ava Gardner

#55. Evelyn, please, you have no idea how much I regret that day."
"I think I have some idea."
"I have thought every day about you - your loss. And every day, I only saw how I would make things worse if I were here."
"And I only thought of ways you would have made it better.

Tarun Shanker

#56. I don't know if you look back on your life and just see successes, but probably the first things that pop up are the regrets.

Stephen Malkmus

#57. That night as I lay in bed, I thought of several things I could have said and mourned the fact that my wit usually bloomed late, peaking when it no longer mattered, during the solitary hours close to midnight.

Siri Hustvedt

#58. I've seen knives pierce the chest,
Children dying in the road
Crawling things hooked and baited,
Rapists bound and then castrated,
Villains singed in public square.
Yet none these sights did make me cringe
Like when my Love cut all her hair.

Roman Payne

#59. A guy said to a girl he liked; ' I am scared of loving again'
The girl responded ; ' the only thing that scares me is living a life of regret, in never chasing that things that once took my breath away

Nikki Rowe

#60. And if you ask how I regret that parting?
It is like the flowers falling at spring's end,
confused, whirled in a tangle.
What is the use of talking! And there is no end of talking
There is no end of things in the heart.

Ezra Pound

#61. I think the only advice I can give you on how to live your life well is, first off, remember ... it's not the things we do in life that we regret on our deathbed, it is the things we do not.

Randy Pausch

#62. With all of their benefits, and there are many, one of the things I regret about e-books is that they have taken away the necessity of trawling foreign bookshops or the shelves of holiday houses to find something to read. I've come across gems and stinkers that way, and both can be fun.

J.K. Rowling

#63. I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

Kathy Griffin

#64. When I was young, I spent my days and nights trying to impress future generations. I spent them. They're gone. All because I was deathly afraid of being forgotten. And then came the regret. The worst things of all worst things.

Miguel Syjuco

#65. I don't regret pulling the trigger. I should have been more careful with many of the things I said afterwards. That was a big regret.

Bernhard Goetz

#66. Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

Drake

#67. There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.

Celeste De Blasis

#68. There is nothing I've been through in my life that I regret, or that I would go back and change. I feel like everything that happened - personally and professionally - I went through for a reason, and I learned from those things.

Sheryl Swoopes

#69. I never regret anything. I always said that when I'm old, I want to be sitting there regretting the things that I did and not the things that I didn't do; and now I'm old, and I don't regret anything! I had fun. I had fun, and I'm still having it.

Michael Caine

#70. I am thankful that thus far today I have not had any unkind thoughts or said any harsh words or done anything that I regret. However, now I need to get out of bed and so things may become more difficult.

Sylvia Boorstein

#71. I don't think anything I do in life is planned. Sometimes I regret that and I feel like I try to take ahold of the wheel, but I'm also always super excited when things pop up spontaneously and when I'm a little bit out of my depth. I just find that that thrills me.

Liz Phair

#72. Whenever life gets to be too much for me, I have a hard time keeping my eyes open. Sleeping is cheaper and safer than drinking. It keeps you from saying or doing things you'll regret later, and though you may have nightmares, you won't wake up with a hangover. I recommend it wholeheartedly.

Elizabeth Forsythe Hailey

#73. Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth.

Kathy Griffin

#74. I wait for his regret, his guilt, but it does not come. He is a man who always sees the good in things. And in his mind, love is always good.

Priya Parmar

#75. But what's regret anyway? Regret, I am learning these days, is a lot of things. But mostly, it's a slippery seed of longing, of looking back and asking yourself why you didn't know better when the answers were so obvious all along.

Allison Winn Scotch

#76. One of the most terrifying things I fear is not my potential, but how much regret I'll die with should I never use it.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#77. Never stop reading, Luke. The words from the pages make me feel like I'm right there, like I can smell the sea and hear the wind. It's my one regret that I didn't read much over the years. How can you learn about all the things happening in the world if you don't read?

Lea Davey

#78. In the past, I've been reluctant to share any bits of truth about myself or to really let people in on my reality. So I have said some things to throw people off the scent of what's really going on in my life. So I have sort of aided the media in printing these misconceptions, which I regret.

Megan Fox

#79. I have always tried to avoid regrets. Could I have done differently some things in my career? Maybe.

Rafael Nadal

#80. So many people shall regret three great things tomorrow; things they did, things they did not do and things they were yet to do!

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#81. There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

Elvis Costello

#82. The moment she was cursed, I lost her. Once it wears off- soon- she will be embarrassed to remember things that she said, things she did, things like this. No matter how solid she feels in my arms, she is made of smoke.

Holly Black

#83. One of the worst things about losing my mother at the age I did was how very much there was to regret. Small things that stung now: all the times I'd scorned her kindness by rolling my eyes or physically recoiled in response to her touch;

Cheryl Strayed

#84. I would rather regret the things that I have done than those I have not.

Garikai Nhongo

#85. Maybe that's why I get frustrated sometimes, because there's no one to blame for how our lives have turned out. I wouldn't change any of the things I've done, but at the same time I wish things were different than they are. I have no regrets, but there's also no satisfaction in where I am.

Chris Dietzel

#86. I should probably get a stone. A stone would be good. A stone would save me, would salvage all the damage we had already done, all the things we had given up or lost.

Dave Eggers

#87. Essentially, I spent most of my childhood with my mother and my older sister, and I suppose I had rather a romantic vision of how things might be if there were men around; I saw myself in a country house with six children and a garden. That has never been achieved - and I still regret it.

Claire Tomalin

#88. One of the things I regret is that magazines now are so lifestyle-orientated that the opportunity to do bigger projects is gone. This is a serious misjudgment on the part of magazine editors.

Martin Parr

#89. I always try to do as much as I can do. I'm never a person that does not enough, because I'd regret not doing enough and think I probably could have done more. I probably go too far and have to reel myself back in, which works in some things, and other things it doesn't work.

Tom Brady

#90. I don't regret anything I do, ever, whether articles I've done or things I've said. And as far as what's happened in the past, I wouldn't take anything back.

Eva Longoria

#91. When I grow old I want to regret the things I've done, not the things I haven't done.

Youngblood Hawke

#92. I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.

Antony Sher

#93. But I am very persistent. I never give up on the things that I want. This ... you and me ... it's inevitable. Theren't no use in fighting, Kami. It's going to happen. And when you are madly in love with me, the only thing you'll regret is not falling sooner.

S.L. Jennings

#94. I have made some bad decisions ... and done some things I regret in my life ... but without a doubt ... what I regret the most ... is divorcing you. If you tell me there is hope, that one day you'll be Mrs. Rawlings again, I will wait.

Aleatha Romig

#95. I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts ... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off .

William Westmoreland

#96. I would rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done. ~Lucille Ball

K. Langston

#97. We didn't have to be defined by the things we did or didn't do in the past. Some people allow themselves to be controlled by regret. Maybe it's regret, maybe it's not. It's merely something that happened. Get over it.
- John, I Am Number Four

Pittacus Lore

#98. There is no point in keeping vengeance or stubbornness. These things" -he sighed- "these things I so regret in my life. Pride. Vanity. Why do we do the things we do?
Morrie Schwartz

Mitch Albom

#99. I think if you don't regret a few things, you didn't take enough risks in life.

Lauren Gallagher

#100. In life, I regret the things I didn't do far more than the missteps I made along the way.

David Stanley