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Quotes About Regret

Everything will resolve itself sooner or later. This is the way of the Tao. Walk through life without fear for the future or regret for the past.
~ Qiguang Zhao
Before I leave this world, I am never going to say, "I didn't do this"or "I regret I did that." I am going to say: "I came, I went, I did nothing, I did all.
~ Qiguang Zhao
Your best relief is to realize you are not a god. Nobody says that they are a god, but many people believe that they have the ability of God to control everything around them. Therefore, they regret that things do not happen in the way that they would like.
~ Qiguang Zhao
All my possessions for a moment of time.
~ Queen Elizabeth I
To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.
~ Queen Elizabeth II
I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.
~ Queen Latifah
It's no good running a pig farm badly for 30 years while saying, 'Really, I was meant to be a ballet dancer.' By then, pigs will be your style.
~ Quentin Crisp
As soon as I stepped out of my mother's womb...I realized that I had made a mistake
~ Quentin Crisp
I look at 'Death Proof' and realize I had too much time.
~ Quentin Tarantino
I don't know how he died, where he died, or where he's buried. But I do know I should've thanked him.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Shit, you shoot me in a dream, you better wake up and apologize.
~ Quentin Tarantino
Al capdavall, només vivim un o dos cops.
~ Quim Monzó
Saying 'I could have done more,' Zin, is what marks a man as a man and not a God.
~ R. Scott Bakker
I know Antoinette, it was a long time ago but it was still my fault and I hope that the work we are doing now will weigh in favor of my soul one day, against the horrible mistake I made all those years ago". "I am sure it will, Alexander, but for now if we can operate inconspicuously and just change one vampire at a time back to their human self and give them their life back it will have to be servitude enough". "It
~ R. Stone
lost her only son—and Elijah to blame.
~ R. T. Kendall
Oh, Lucia the captain said softly, you are so little and so lovely. how I would have liked to have taken you to Norway and shown you the fiords in the midnight sun, and to China- what you've missed, Lucia, by being born too late to travel the Seven Seas with me! And what I've missed, too.
~ R.A. Dick
I am sorry,' he whispers. 'I am sorry I treated you so ill. I thought only to protect Duval.' 'It was not I who was poisoning him,' I say. 'No, but you had stolen his heart and I was afraid you would rip it from his chest when you left.
~ R.L. LaFevers
A kiss for luck, demoiselle?" It is a magnificent, lusty kiss and I feel nothing but deep regret that it may be his last. Just before he pulls away, he whispers in my ear. "Duval said to give you that should I get a chance. It is from him.
~ R.L. LaFevers
That's one of my problems. I never get angry quick enough. I never speak up when I am really mad. And then I feel silly bringing it up later.
~ R.L. Stine
But Mr. Spurgeon, what if we convert one of the nonelect?" Spurgeon patted him on the back and replied, "God will forgive you for that." I have never regretted asking a person to close with Christ.
~ R.T. Kendall
No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been. No nostalgia hurts as much as nostalgia for things that never existed.
~ Rabih Alameddine
We rarely consider that we're also formed by the decisions we didn't make, by events that could have happened but didn't, or by our lack of choices, for that matter.
~ Rabih Alameddine
No loss is felt more keenly than the loss of what might have been.
~ Rabih Alameddine
The receding perspective of my past smothers my present. Remembering is the malignancy that feasts on my now.
~ Rabih Alameddine