Regret Quotes

Youth is a blunder; Manhood a struggle, Old Age a regret.

~ Benjamin Disraeli

O love, if I regret the age when one savors you, it is not for the hour of pleasure, but for the one that follows it.

~ Jean-Jacques Rousseau

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

~ Bobby Knight

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.

~ Ogden Nash

I never talked about architecture with my father, which I regret.

~ Bernard Tschumi

I have always believed, heretofore, in the doctrines of the Declaration of Independence, that all men are born free and equal; but of late it appears that some men are born slaves, and I regret that they are not black, so all the world might know them.

~ Benjamin F. Wade

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

We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.

~ Lucy Maud Montgomery

I regret those times when I've chosen the dark side. I've wasted enough time not being happy.

~ Jessica Lange

The one thing I regret is that I will never have time to read all the books I want to read.

~ Françoise Sagan

But we have been to the Pole and we shall die like gentlemen. I regret only for the women we leave behind.

~ Robert Falcon Scott

Speak when you are angry - and you'll make the best speech you'll ever regret.

~ Laurence J. Peter

Always Do Your Best. Your best is going to change from moment to moment; it will be different when you are healthy as opposed to sick. Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret.

~ Don Miguel Ruiz

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good.

~ Jude Law

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.

~ Woodrow Wilson

In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.

~ Stefan Zweig

Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well - you go, 'Why did you do that?' But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.

~ Robin Williams

It's so much worse to live in regret in your forties than it is to take a chance in your late twenties.

~ Donna Lynne Champlin

My biggest regret in life is that I didn't hit John Denver in the mouth while I has the chance.

~ Denis Leary

I have questioned myself about the brutality in the last few novels. Actually in 'The Leopard,' in hindsight, I feel I went a little bit too far with screaming blood. There are a couple of scenes that I regret and wish I had the chance to rewrite. 'Phantom' has less blood.

~ Jo Nesbo

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

~ Monica Johnson

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country.

~ Nathan Hale

You can never regret anything you do in life. You kind of have to learn the lesson from whatever the experience is and take it with you on your journey forward.

~ Aubrey O'day

Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.

~ David Knopfler

We crucify ourselves between two thieves: regret for yesterday and fear of tomorrow.

~ Fulton Oursler

My biggest regret is putting my body through fad diets - Atkins, cleanses, the hCG diet.

~ Jennie Garth

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

~ Ty Cobb

Not that I regret saying what I believed to be the truth, but I regret anything that I might have written or spoken that could have been used in a way to help to foster that atmosphere out of which came the loss of life of Brother Malcolm.

~ Louis Farrakhan

The past is a great place and I don't want to erase it or to regret it, but I don't want to be its prisoner either.

~ Mick Jagger

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

~ Colin Trevorrow

I put my career in second place throughout both my marriages and it suffered. I don't regret it. You make choices. If you want a good marriage, you must pay attention to that. If you want to be independent, go ahead. You can't have it all.

~ Lauren Bacall

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me.

~ Ian Mcewan

I'm never afraid to try something if I think it's funny. And I know I'll regret it if I don't.

~ Seann William Scott

Of course there are regrets. I shall regret always that I found my own authentic voice in politics. I was too conservative, too conventional. Too safe, too often. Too defensive. Too reactive. Later, too often on the back foot.

~ John Major

Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.

~ Henry David Thoreau

My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.

~ Rose Kennedy

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it.

~ Marc Maron

I don't have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we've all made some of those. But I'm not sad about change.

~ John Gutfreund

It's important with any new technology to try to pay conscious attention to what the drawbacks might be. We choose to multitask. Sometimes our choices aren't the wisest of choices, and we regret them, but they are our choices. I think it'd be wrong to think that they're automatically bad.

~ James Gleick