Regret Quotes

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

I was up for Michael Corleone in 'The Godfather,' but, as I was only 10 at the time, I think Mr. Coppola made the right choice. The Julia Roberts role in 'Pretty Woman' held a bizarre allure for me. But, it's silly to look back with regret.

When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.

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

Now that we are cool, he said, and regret that we hurt each other, I am not sorry that it happened.

Every comedian dreams of hosting 'The Tonight Show' and, for seven months, I got to. I did it my way, with people I love, and I do not regret a second.

In his first 100 days, Mr. Obama has put the fate of his presidency in the hands of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid. He may come to regret that decision.

I don't regret any decisions I've made in my life.

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.

People only stutter at the beginning of the word. They're not afraid when they get to the end of the word. There's just regret.

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.

I don't believe in regret.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

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.

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.

Very few movies I've done I regret being involved in.

I regret all of my books.

Looking back, I have this to regret, that too often when I loved, I did not say so.

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.

War seems to be one of the most salutary phenomena for the culture of human nature; and it is not without regret that I see it disappearing more and more from the scene.

That's why I ended up leaving school - because it required so much time, and it was such an excellent idea. I figured I would regret not going full force with this idea. It seemed we could make something of it.

There are people still in the Republican Party that I believe practice the communication of anger, of disappointment, of regret, of pain, of sorrow, of suffering. That's not what the American people want to hear.

The divorce is a regret of mine and my mum thinks that we should have stayed together. He's now remarried so there's no chance of us getting back together.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

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

So, I see technology as a Trojan Horse: It looks like a wonderful thing, but they are going to regret introducing it into the schools because it simply can't be controlled.

I'd rather regret doing something than not doing something.

No, I don't regret anything at this point. That may change on the next phone call, but at the moment I don't regret anything.

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.

If you aren't in the moment, you are either looking forward to uncertainty, or back to pain and regret.