Quotes About Regret

To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.

Whatever is begun in anger ends in shame.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation.

In 1736 I lost one of my sons, a fine boy of four years old, by the small-pox, taken in the common way. I long regretted bitterly, and still regret that I had not given it to him by inoculation. This I mention for the sake of parents who omit that operation, on the supposition that they should never forgive themselves

Perhaps I was too saucy

the rapid progress true Science now makes, occasions my regretting sometimes that I was born so soon

When she thinks of the toxins built up inside of her from so many years of eating carelessly, of the resentment that has grown steadily over fifteen years of marriage, of the stretch marks and the varicose veins that came from two pregnancies, only one of them fulfilled, she thinks the inside of her body must tell a story like a tree. Were she to break open a bone, perhaps it would look like the inside of a coffee mug - riddled with lines, stained with brown blotches.

Say there's this thing you want, this thing that seems more important than everything, this thing you've been waiting for because it will make you into something else. And then you get a chance at it and it's almost as if you don't want to change. Because you'll miss the person you were before.

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.

Tweeting is like doing drugs. Seems like fun, but you just end up regretting it afterward.

The numbers are things I don't like to reflect on or look back on.

Obviously, there are moments that you look back at and cringe - things in the past involving violence or disrespect to women or disrespect to other people that are so far away from what I want to put out there now. But it's actually a privilege to be able to change and be making records that reflect that change.

I confess freely to you, I could never look long upon a monkey, without very mortifying reflections.

On reflection, I think the 1980s were a dreadful, abysmal time.

Oh, I could have done more. I refused a lot of ballets. I said, 'No way, no way I'm going to do that.'

If I made a mistake in terms of running for president, the mistake was not in refusing to run in '91.

I may have made a mistake in renouncing my Canadian citizenship, which I have never ceased to promise to try to regain.

I loved making it but when I saw it, I thought, 'Oh my God. I'm a big green lizard running around Cardiff? Is that it?' It's nice to have been in 'Doctor Who' but that is regarded by fans as the worst episode ever.

In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.

A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

I don't regret anything, but that doesn't mean that I don't look back and think, 'What was I thinking?'

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

I will never regret not denouncing apartheid.

I live a life that I never regret any decision.