Quotes About Regret

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

I should have got a better deal in my career, but everything has its time. You can't rush things, feel remorse or regret.

I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived.

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked?

I remember so many times in the summer there was shootouts and things going on and it was just a part of it. It wasn't even like you regretted it; you still was looking forward to next summer. It was like oh damn, my man got killed but we gon' rep him and next summer we gonna ball again. It was just a part of the culture.

If you can't forgive yourself, you think you're never going to be able to forgive yourself, and you repeat the same behavior.

People tend to repeat the same quotes at me that I said when I was 23. And of course, you say things then, and sometimes they're ill-advised.

When I look back I either feel I did this mistake while shooting or writing. Eventually you try and make sure you do not repeat the same mistake with your next film. I always feel I could have made the film better.

Whatever the reasons that I turn things down, I'm always happy when there's a good result, and I can enjoy it as a movie, you know? I don't feel like, 'Oh man, that was really good. I should have done it.' You have to make the decisions you have to make, whether it has to do with your family or repeating a character or whatever it is.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

Some persons do first, think afterward, and then repent forever.

I don't want to say yes to a project in hurry and repent later.

Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.

Bad men are full of repentance.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Repentance is accepted remorse.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

Repentance comes from the heart.

People look to you to replace a part in their lives that they can't get back. You can't get the past back, you can't do it. We've all tried.

I often think about what my replacement will do after I'm fired. She won't have emotional commitments to decisions that I already regret.

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.

I've failed those I care most about and let down the people who elected me to represent them.