Top 34 Regretful Quotes: Famous Quotes & Sayings About Regretful

#1. 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

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

Kilroy J. Oldster

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

Dwight D. Eisenhower

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

Michael Lewis

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

Ernest Agyemang Yeboah

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. 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

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

Gudjon Bergmann

#10. 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

#11. 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

#12. 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

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

Jesse Andrews

#14. 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

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

David Carradine

#16. 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

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

Kristen Stewart

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

Chris Hemsworth

#19. 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

#20. 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

#21. Vlad said, sounding regretful.

Simon replied.

Anne Bishop

#22. 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

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

Christine Zolendz

#24. 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

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

Henry Abbey

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

Kassandra Cross

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

John Connolly

#28. Without territory, it does not even have the resources to provide detention facilities for prisoners, even if it were interested in holding captured POWs.

John Yoo

#29. 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