Most Regretful Quotes

#1. The most regretful behavior always leaches from a wound to our sanctimonious pride.

Kilroy J. Oldster

#2. The most regretful people on earth are those who felt the call to creative work, who felt their own creative power restive and uprising, and gave to it neither power nor time.

Mary Oliver

#3. Because God is reflected in the world in which me made, in some sense, my scientific investigation has always supported my belief in God in a very real sense. It helps me to pray better.

George Coyne

#4. My ambition in the Army was to make everybody I worked for regretful when I was ordered to other duty.

Dwight D. Eisenhower

#5. Urrrrnngh.
What is that noise.
Regretful polar bear.

Jesse Andrews

#6. My dad said it best when he said, "John, on your deathbed you will never wish you spent more time at the office." So I started spending a little more time at home. I settled into a pretty good, if ordinary, existence.

Robin S. Sharma

#7. And I'm not ashamed or regretful. I spent my days loving those who mattered to me. What else is there in life?

Aline Ohanesian

#8. Benjamin's expression turned regretful. "You're right. I'm sorry." Jason couldn't believe his ears. His younger brother was actually apologizing for something. "I appreciate that," Jason finally said.

John O'Riley

#9. I'm not sure what it is, but you look like you've made and broken a lot of things and then made them all over again.

Kiera Cass

#10. I lived in Cuba - I was there for one year in the 1950s. We built the famous nightclub, which is still there, Tropicana, and a restaurant, Montecatini, that I opened is still there. I was there when the U.S. ambassador said everyone must leave because Castro was arriving the next morning.

Sirio Maccioni

#11. For me personally, I don't pray using words - it is just with my intent. Why do I need to pray with "words," to something external, when I know what I want?

Miguel Angel Ruiz

#12. Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as they evolved with it, as the slower climate changes and uplift produced more grass and less forest.

William H. Calvin

#13. A good world needs knowledge, kindliness, and courage; it does not need a regretful hankering after the past or a fettering of the free intelligence by the words uttered long ago by ignorant men.

Bertrand Russell

#14. War strips away the thin veneer applied slap-dash by the institutions of society and shows Man for exactly what he is.

Mark Baker

#15. Regretful and negative thoughts about the past can effectively induce the same kind of fight or flight response that external threats stimulate.

Gudjon Bergmann

#16. There is nothing so important, so imperative, as the delivery of the divine message that has been entrusted to us.

Orson F. Whitney

#17. We quenched the bulging flame, amongst
the ashes embers of fire remain

Mie Hansson

#18. Ragnor looked very regretful about all the choices that had led him to his being in this place and especially in this company

Cassandra Clare

#19. Pride is not a word or sentiment I can ascribe to anything I have done or do. As far as regret, it is a luxury I can not afford. Anything I did, that was bad or wrong or regretful, I stand accused, I am guilty and I'm ready to serve my time.

Henry Rollins

#20. The ego-self constantly pushes reality away. It constructs a future out of empty expectations and a past out of regretful memories.

Alan W. Watts

#21. Had I known only tells us the regretful stories of yesterday better

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#22. Frustrated people needed to undo some feature of their environment, while regretful people needed to undo their own actions. "The

Michael Lewis

#23. In these pages, traveling "solo" does not necessarily mean "alone." The absence of other people often suggests regretful isolation. "Solo" by contrast, is a willful decision to be the architect of our own experience.

Gina Greenlee

#24. He had a sadness in his eyes that Carrie recognised as regret.

Kassandra Cross

#25. I'm not regretful about dropping acid, but I could have stopped it a little sooner.

David Carradine

#26. Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.

John Connolly

#27. We're all going to die. Most of us will leave no mark of our existence behind what-so-ever. Not a stain or a smudge or a smear on the face of history. I think that's sad." It made Romney horribly regretful to think that the fat man was right.

Oliver Tidy

#28. But I'm ravenous for news, any kind of news; even if it's false news, it must mean something. We

Margaret Atwood

#29. Don't go."
"I have to." A regretful sigh. "And it's best if you don't remember any mermen." He tucked a strand of wet hair behind her ear. His voice stroked her skin like velvet. "Forget me."
And she did.

Nicole Luiken

#30. I am thrilled. I love movies. I don't have those nagging, regretful feelings about either of them, it is a miracle.

Kristen Stewart

#31. Nothing has more words and performance than rap music.

Chuck D

#32. I can remember watching 'Lord of the Rings' and being truly regretful that I wasn't a being in that world.

Chris Hemsworth

#33. And to have spent the night sleeping and awoken regretful, is better than to have spent the night standing (in prayer) and awaken impressed with oneself!

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

#34. The end we know not; but we wander on,
Down the regretful wilderness of time.

Henry Abbey

#35. Vlad said, sounding regretful.

Simon replied.

Anne Bishop

#36. When you're reminded that God owes you nothing you find yourself more grateful and less entitled.

LeCrae

#37. We didn't have movies in this little mining town. When I was 12 my mom took me to New York and I saw Bye Bye Birdie, with people singing and dancing, and that was it.

Margot Kidder

#38. You never get anywhere until you figure out the difference between passion and compassion.

Cynthia Heimel

#39. And her eyes filled with heavy, regretful tears, yet she did not quite know for what she was weeping. She only knew that some great sense of loss, some great sense of incompleteness possessed her, and she let the tears trickle down her face, wiping them off one by one with her finger.

Radclyffe Hall

#40. Iam kind of hoping the rest of my night will be full os regretful behavior and irreversible decisions.

Christine Zolendz

#41. History informs us of past mistakes from which we can learn without repeating them. It also inspires us and gives confidence and hope bred of victories already won.

William H. Hastie

#42. His temperament was deeply nostalgic, not for for his own past, but for past ages; he was cynical of the present, fearful of the future and profoundly regretful of the world's decay.

Eleanor Catton

#43. Anything great will only be appreciated if I am given the opportunity to feel the absence of it, or experience the reversal of it. It is only then that I can even begin to understand its majesty and cherish it in the manner I should have all along.

Craig D. Lounsbrough