Top 100 Quotes About Regret
#1. I didn't actually know what regret tasted like - but I imagined if it did have a flavor, it would be lutefisk.
Angela N. Blount
#2. The waves of regret were gentle, but I knew they would ripple on forever.
Yoko Ogawa
#3. To get over the past, you first have to accept that the past is over. No matter how many times you revisit it, analyze it, regret it, or sweat it ... it's over. It can hurt you no more.
Mandy Hale
#4. Sometimes I regret not being Catholic. I think I'd make a pretty good saint.
Zach Braff
#5. To dream the future is much more better than to regret the past.
But the best of all, to live in the present life with all of your power.
Toba Beta
#6. Perhaps she was happiest when she was out of control. She looked at the fates and said three little words, not one regret.
Lawren Leo
#7. There is no truer saying than "Revenge is a dish best eaten cold." It is so much sweeter for the waiting, and my only regret is that I cannot broadcast my triumph to the world.
Minette Walters
#8. Never say anything you'll regret. It's easier to say nothing at all than to say something you can't take back.
Nikki Sex
#9. Who can wish for happiness that is bought at the price of reason, whose fleeting pleasures are at least followed by regret, if not remorse?
Pierre-Ambroise Choderlos De Laclos
#10. 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
Dean Koontz
#11. Better to regret actions you have taken than to regret not having had the courage to take them in the first place.
Holly Chamberlin
#12. They are all beer wasted. Which is different from bourbon wasted. Bourbon makes you mean and switches on your regret.
Lisa D'Amour
#13. To give up yourself without regret is the greatest charity.
Bodhidharma
#14. He thinks with regret of the great days when he could at harvest time at least go down into Hungary and work on the big estates and bring back, as his wage, a side of bacon for the winter. That was wealth, to him.
Douglas Reed
#15. We can regret something that we did , we can regret something that we didn't do; but the only thing that we can not afford to regret is regretting being ourselves
Hisham Fawzi
#16. I would rather live with the consequences of my failures than live in regret without ever trying.
Bryan Nyaude
#17. That other woman may have entered his thoughts every now and then, but only as a regret. I was the one who had his full attention now.
S.J. Pajonas
#18. The girls we'd believed to have been lost in the haze of regret and recrimination that comes with surviving in the unscrupulous business; this unjust world. But it turned out they'd been here all along, these two; caught forever in a shared moment, preserved together in a silver frame.
Melanie Benjamin
#19. Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
David Mamet
#20. Sometimes I regret going into that public toilet with your father.'
'Then practice safe sex, Mama!!'
'We were! There was a fight in the bar and we took cover in the public toilets!!
Jonathan Dunne
#21. He seemed genuinely astonished. "You admire me?"
"Yes," she said gravely. "All of us do things we regret
that's part of being human. And sometimes, I think, moral quality reveals itself not so much in what we do, but in what we later say about what we have done ...
Alexander McCall Smith
#22. I'm not big on regret - until time travel actually exists, it seems like a waste of making yourself feel bad
Julie Klausner
#23. My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.
Jennie Garth
#24. They are not lost. Nor are they in a better place. They are gone. As I approach the end of my years, I know that grief, like regret, settles into our DNA and remains forever a part of us. I
Kristin Hannah
#25. Touch her," he said in Scott's ear, his voice low and threatening, "and it'll be the biggest regret of your life.
Becca Fitzpatrick
#26. But he holds me so tightly that for a moment, the emotions are at bay. The sadness and fear, the regret and the loathing. He bottles them up inside his arms so that for a split second I don't have to be the one carrying the weight of them. For this moment, the burden is his.
Mary Kubica
#27. I regret not death. I am going to meet my friends in another world.
Ludovico Ariosto
#28. I regret that I didn't enjoy it all more. I didn't savour it until the end because I was so hard on myself. Life goes by so quickly. A dancer's career goes by so quickly. You've got to enjoy those moments when you know you've done your best.
Karen Kain
#29. There was a flicker of something in Greta's look. I couldn't tell whether it was a flicker of love or regret or meanness.
Carol Rifka Brunt
#30. An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.
David Corbett
#31. Live the life you choose and enjoy the happiness and regret that comes with that life.
~Yong-Kum
Lee Eun
#32. She siged, a sound of regret for childhood transgressions, for all the lessons learned too late.
Tess Gerritsen
#33. In terms of relationships, I've had two failures, although I don't like to call them failures; they are self learning, and I cannot say I regret any of my relationships. I've always said that I am a much loved woman.
Kate Del Castillo
#34. Regret for the things you have done can be tempered with time, It's regret for the things you have not doen that is inconsolable.
Reader's Digest Association
#35. And I don't regret the rain
Or the nights I felt the pain
Or the tears I had to cry
Some of those times along the way.
Every road I had to take,
Every time my heart would break,
It was just something that I had to get through,
To get me to you.
Lila McCann
#36. At a recent show, I looked out and I saw this girl crying in the audience and it really affected me. I wanted to stop the song and go and give her a hug. I should have, actually - I regret not doing that.
Elena Tonra
#37. I love the life you've always made so sweet for me and I'd regret it if I had to die.' 'Do you mean to say that if I left you
' 'I'd die, yes.' 'Then you love me?
Alexandre Dumas
#38. It is with deep regret that the determination to assemble Parliament has been so long delayed.
Henry Addington
#39. No regrets. There is no time for that. Regret is boring.
A.R. Rahman
#40. The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
Michael Curtiz
#41. Salvation Creek flows till date, endless tears of motherly love and manly regret.
Adhish Mazumder
#42. To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.
David Whyte
#43. In order to be released from that agony, it doesn't matter what it takes even if it means using your friend's life, right? And then after you've gobbled him down you'd be left alone to regret it while covered in blood and guts. That's the hunger of a 'Ghoul'.
Sui Ishida
#44. This is the deal, Angel. You ... ran ... away from me. And I tasted regret for the first time in my life. And that didn't sting, it fuckin' killed.
Kristen Ashley
#46. Of Paradise I cannot speak properly, for I have not been there; and that I regret.
John Mandeville
#47. when all is said and done, we regret only the chances we didn't take, not the ones we did and failed at.
K. Bromberg
#48. I am more than willing to be judged by the people you claim to represent. I will let them decide what price I should pay. But please do not sit there with that smug look on your face and expect me to regret the decisions I have made. Because, sir, the truth is I don't.
Jack Bauer
#49. Please tell me it's going to rain today, Francois.'
'Ah!' he smiled. (This was obviously familiar territory.) 'I regret to inform you that the forecast calls for nothing but sunshine.'
'Relentless sunshine,' she corrected him.
Kathleen Tessaro
#50. With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn't use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.
Bernhard Goetz
#51. The things we regret most in life are the things we don't do.
Dean Koontz
#52. And on that evening when we grow older still we'll speak about these two young men as though they were two strangers we met on the train and whom we admire and want to help along. And we'll want to call it envy, because to call it regret would break our hearts.
Andre Aciman
#53. I have the deepest regret about 9/11. Sept. 11, 2001, was one of the most difficult days I've ever had. I was in Lima, Peru, and had to fly back eight hours not knowing what happened in my own country, knowing thousands of my fellow citizens had died.
Colin Powell
#54. Ome of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and need and hollowness and a feeling as close to anger as I will ever be able to imagine.
Colm Toibin
#55. You didn't get it. Sacrifice is a part of life. It's supposed to be. It's not something to regret. It's something to aspire to. Little sacrifices. Big sacrifices.
Mitch Albom
#56. Mistakes and regret, desease and death ... ain't recognized by mind that capable on changing them into otherwise.
Toba Beta
#57. Savannah's mind brushed his and found genuine regret for her sorrow. "How did you find me?"
"I always know where you are, every moment. Five years ago you said you needed time, and I gave it to you. But I've never left you. I never will."
-Savannah & Gregori
Christine Feehan
#58. Regret perches like an umbrella over all of my days.
Jillian Lauren
#59. Never pass up the chance to be kissing someone. It's the worst kind of regret.
Patrick Ness
#60. Do not regret too much the choices you have made in the past, Gabriel," she said, aware that she was using his Christian name, but not able to help it. "Only make the right ones in the future. We are ever capable of change and ever capable of being our better selves.
Cassandra Clare
#61. Between tomorrow dream and yesterday's regret is today's OPPORTUNITY.
Unknown
#62. I deeply regret using such a poor choice of words.
Harry Reid
#63. People really could be one way outside, when inside they were torn to shreds, a fine white powder of grief and regret replacing blood and bones, and no one even noticed.
Alice Hoffman
#64. Always regret the things you did do, never the things you didn't.
Dorothy Koomson
#65. I couldn't possibly have any regrets, because I've been very lucky, I've been celebrated, and I've survived. I couldn't have one single regret. That would be absurd.
Don McCullin
#66. Oh, how I regret not having worn a bikini for the entire year I was twenty-six. If anyone young is reading this, go, right this minute, put on a bikini, and don't take it off until you're thirty-four.
Nora Ephron
#68. When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do.
Joan Caraganis Jakobson
#69. I don't regret the decision to retire. My body was losing its edge. I was taking longer to recover from injuries. You have to get out at some point.
David Beckham
#70. How subtle is the relationship between the traveler and his luggage! He knows, as no one else knows, its idiosyncrasies, its contents ... and always some small nuisance which he wishes he had not brought; had known, indeed, before starting that he would regret it, but brought it all the same.
Vita Sackville-West
#71. Ronan woke up the following morning with a terrible hangover and a huge sense of regret. He had hurt the woman he loves most in the world and he knew Katie was very strong willed and didn't forgive easily.
Annette J. Dunlea
#72. I have been in Paris for almost a week and I have not heard anyone say calories, or cholesterol, or even arterial plaque. The French do not season their food with regret.
Mary-Lou Weisman
#73. Its better to regrets what you did, than regret what you didn't do.
William Nolan
#74. You cannot just waste time. Otherwise you'll die to regret it.
Harriet Doerr
#75. It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.
Woodrow Wilson
#76. My ex-wife, she really didn't like the material that I did. And that's something I regret, that I wasn't more careful about making sure that she was O.K. with it. I just sort of didn't ask. So that's how that goes.
Louis C.K.
#77. Regret drives us to repentance, and repentance leads us to God.
Francine Rivers
#78. A thousand regrets I've had in love,
A thousand times I've longed to change the past.
I know, my love, there is no going back.
No undoing of our thousand burdens.
We must go on despite our heavy hearts.
A thousand regrets I've had in love, but I shall never regret you.
Rachel Hartman
#79. All people share doubts. The lingering question that eventually worms it way into all thinking people's brain is how to live splendidly and how to die without remorse and regret.
Kilroy J. Oldster
#80. As he leans over to kiss me good night, I do not regret having graduated from the amorous sprints of our youths. Marriage is a long-distance course, and reading aloud is a kind of romantic Gatorade formulated to invigorate the occasionally exhausted racers.
Anne Fadiman
#81. There's nothing I've done that I feel a lot of regret over because I stuck to my guns, even when it got uncomfortable - and it will get uncomfortable because you're going up against the wall.
Shirley Manson
#82. If you spend five minutes complaining, you have just wasted five minutes. If you continue complaining, it won't be long before they haul you out to a financial desert and there let you choke on the dust of your own regret.
Jim Rohn
#83. Marry or marry not, in any either case you'll regret it
Socrates
#84. How can you have any regret when everything worked out fine? But why I think it worked out fine is due to the lessons I learned along the way. And one of those involves listening to experts.
Tony Robbins
#85. When you know that you can overcome challenges, you do gain that self-respect, and then you won't end up in a situation that you regret later on.
Danica McKellar
#86. Time is one of those tricky things. It's fast to slip through our fingers and we regret each lost moment the instant it's gone. If we constantly turn around to examine our footprints, we'll miss the road ahead.
Matthew C. Plourde
#87. Life is about choices. Some we regret, some were proud of. Some will haunt us forever. 'Black Rain' was very much about choices. The message - we are what we chose to be.
Graham Brown
#88. I regret to announce that - though, as I said, eleventy-one years is far too short a time to spend among you - this is the END. I am going. I am leaving NOW. GOOD-BYE!
J.R.R. Tolkien
#89. The more you lived the more regret and longing you suffered, that life was a glorious catastrophe
Jess Walter
#90. Neil started for the door, but Kevin put a hand on his shoulder to stop him. "Neil."
There was a world of regret in that name, but it was a promise, too.
Nora Sakavic
#91. don't live to regret the things you never said
Nick Pollack
#92. It seemed to Rosa Lublin that the whole peninsula of Florida was weighted down with regret. Everyone had left behind a real life. Here they had nothing. They were all scarecrows, blown about under the murdering sunball with empty ribcages.
Cynthia Ozick
#93. Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret and remorse and bitterness will prevent us from designing a better future with the opportunity that is before us today.
Jim Rohn
#94. Nobody ever left the presidency with less regret, less disappointment, fewer heart burnings, or any general content with the result of his term (in his own heart, I mean) than I do. Full of difficulty and trouble at first, I now find myself on smooth waters and under bright skies.
Rutherford B. Hayes
#95. This was the first time I had not just rushed in and followed my instincts, and it wasn't working out. I was beginning to actively regret it.
Gwenda Bond
#96. Tragedies might be bursts of misery, but regret was forever.
Brendan Duffy
#97. There is nothing to regret - either for those who go or for those who are left behind
Eleanor Roosevelt
#98. I destroyed all my geek stuff because I didn't want to be a geek, and I regret it to this day. Consumed in the geek bonfire of the vanities was a collection of autographs and letters from Peter Cushing, Spike Milligan and Frankie Howerd, the first Doctor Whos, actual astronauts, and many more.
Peter Capaldi
#100. Regret; The saddest word in the English language.
Tonya Hurley
