Regret Quotes

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

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.

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.

Once my heart was captured, reason was shown the door, deliberately and with a sort of frantic joy. I accepted everything, I believed everything, without struggle, without suffering, without regret, without false shame. How can one blush for what one adores?

Please let me assure you, however, that the keen disappointment and regret which I feel in this regard serve only to enhance my profound appreciation of the great honor which you have done me; and my sincere gratitude for your generous action.

No, I regret nothing, all I regret is having been born, dying is such a long tiresome business I always found.

It is better to look ahead and prepare than to look back and regret.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

My only regret in life is that I didn't spend as much time with my kids as I now wish I had.

I regret the whole worlds that will never come into existence, the children, the grandchildren, all the human possibilities that never were and never will be.

One of the characteristics of the dream is that nothing surprises us in it. With no regret, we agree to live in it with strangers, completely cut off from our habits and friends.

I believe the war on terror is the vital discussion of this decade and of our generation, probably. To win the war on terror, you need a good offense and a good defense. On defense, I regret to say, basically, this administration has not come close to doing what is necessary.

My major regret in life is that my childhood was unnecessarily lonely.

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.

I don't keep it secret that I live with my partner Gio. I'm very proud of my gayness. But there is lots I wouldn't want the press to write about me... it is a matter of regret that being gay is the most interesting thing about me.

I do not regret the things I've done, but those I did not do.

I was a daydreamer, and there is a lot of history and geography and science I missed out on because I was in my head. And I regret that.

The only things you regret are the things you don't do.

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret?

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

I lost my moral compass and I have done terrible things that I very much regret.

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up.

I regret nothing.

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

I think I don't regret a single 'excess' of my responsive youth - I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.

Of course I do not regret the Bond days, I regret that sadly heroes in general are depicted with guns in their hands, and to tell the truth I have always hated guns and what they represent.