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Quotes About Regret

I cross the place where my heart used to be and hope to be even deader than I am now.
~ Derek Landy
I was wondering how you were going to punish me for not confiding in you. Punishment, actually, is something I've thought about for a long time. What form of punishment would be enough for what I did? Imprisonment? Death? Something else? Something scarier? I could only think of so many horrible tortures before they stopped having meaning. But you' you've come up with a punishment I never considered. You're going to sulk me to death.
~ Derek Landy
If none of that was a thing," she interrupted. "If you could go back right and, like, stop me from ever getting involved, knowing what lay ahead of me, would you do it?" Skulduggery focused on the road ahead for a few seconds. "For my sake, I wouldn't change a thing," he said. "For your sake? I'd change everything.
~ Derek Landy
You promise?" "I cross the place where my heart used to be and wish to be even more deader than I am now.
~ Derek Landy
Sorry I called you Goat-molester," Virgil said. "It was the first thing that came into my head, honestly." "I don't need your damn apology!" "Then why are you here?" "I came here to kick your ass!" "You might want to do that from a standing position." "Screw you! I'll get up in my own time!
~ Derek Landy
I'm sorry, I'm still stuck on you losing your head. – Stephanie/Valkyrie
~ Derek Landy
Kenspeckle was your friend." "When all this is over, we'll see who's alive and who's dead and then I'll cry, OK?... Clarabelle's going to feel so bad when this is done with.
~ Derek Landy
Until next time," Hansard said, "when hopefully, you won't have my father's vomit in your hair.
~ Derek Landy
Nostalgia for what we have lost is more bearable than nostalgia for what we have never had, for the first involves knowledge and pleasure, the second only ignorance and pain.
~ Mignon McLaughlin
The knowledge of my sin Is half-repentance.
~ Bayard Taylor
If we could be twice young and twice old we could correct all our mistakes.
~ Euripides
[Misquotation; not by Einstein.] If only I had known, I should have become a watchmaker. [Apparently remorseful for his role in the development of the atom bomb.]
~ Albert Einstein
A little knowledge is a dangerous thing. I regret that this isn't fatal.
~ Erik Naggum
We should live and learn but by the time we've learned it's too late to live.
~ Carolyn Wells
When people get drunk they do things they shouldn't do.
~ Johnny Hunt
The history of the failure of war can almost be summed up in two words: too late.
~ Douglas MacArthur
To try and fail is at least to learn; to fail to try is to suffer the inestimable loss of what might have been.
~ Chester Barnard
The poor inhabitant below Was quick to learn and wise to know And keenly felt the friendly glow And softer flame; But thoughtless follies laid him low, And stain'd his name!
~ Robert Burns
I wouldn't underrate the power of regret. It doesn't feel good... But it's hard to learn anything important without it.
~ Joe Hill
I'm very versatile and there's nothing I really regret in my life. I'm excited with who I am and I'm just going to keep riding the wave.
~ Rick Ross
Sometimes I wish I could go back in life, not to change things but just to feel things twice
~ Drake
Learning is the only thing the mind never exhausts, never fears, and never regrets.
~ Leonardo da Vinci
I don't regret any of the decisions I've made in my life. Because with every choice I've made, I've learned something new.
~ Ariana Grande
It's better to have tried and failed than to live life wondering what would've happened if I had tried
~ Alfred Lord Tennyson