Quotes About Regret

The absence of regret makes no guarantee of the absence of pain.

The first jolt I received in my life was when I lost my father in a motorcycle accident when I was eight. I would have been with him if he hadn't turned down my request to go out with him that afternoon.

The effort required by your endeavor now is not as hard as dealing with your regret later.

The only person you resent is yourself.

Guilt is anger directed at ourselves - at what we did or did not do. Resentment is anger directed at others - at what they did or did not do.

That is why with enormous regret I have tendered my resignation to the prime minister today.

When I was younger I was a nightmare. I let people down. I resigned from Sheffield United because things were promised to me that weren't forthcoming. I let people down when I was younger, certainly in management.

For me, 'The Kite Runner' became about a guy who's emotionally shut down because he hasn't confronted his past.

When I was working on pictures with my father, there were a couple leading ladies to whom I wish I'd expressed how I felt rather than being too cool or too shy.

I know a lot of people who've lost their siblings and blame themselves.

And I was desolate and sick of an old passion.

I inherited a sick economy and passed on a sound one. But one abiding regret for me is that, in between, I did not have the resources to put in place the educational and social changes about which I cared to much; I made only a beginning, and it was not enough.

I'm just sick of food going in the garbage.

My first go at drinking did not go so well. I ended up getting sick in front of everybody. You know that Ginuwine song 'Pony'? It was playing at the party while I was getting sick. My entire senior year, everyone sang that around me. For a year. I would like that erased from my memory.

I had a faux-hawk for a while and I used to buzz the sides and design it. It was really bad.

I was obsessed with my lips and used to think, 'They're not big enough!' Looking, back, I'm totally embarrassed. I'd lost sight of what a normal face looked like.

I don't regret my choice to sign for Milan.

One night I was driving and so infatuated with dipping French fries into my milk shake that I drove right through a stop sign. The cop who pulled me over had no mercy.

Maybe if I had signed for Chelsea I'd just have been sitting on the bench and what is the point in that?

My only regret is that I signed away the world rights and in America they've been far and away my most successful books, but I never saw a cent from any of it.

I was driving by an auto auction one day, and they were auctioning off a beautiful Hispano-Suiza. I started bidding even though I hadn't even signed up with the officials. The last bid was $50,000, and it was mine. And I thought, 'My God, what have I done? I've never spent more than $500 in my life.' That was the first one.

My childhood friends and I would have been featured in 'The Achievers: The Story of the Big Lebowski Fans,' but I never signed the release form we received from the producers. I am both proud and ashamed of this fact.

A significant regret is that I was not as good a father as I would have ideally liked to be. I was not, I think, a bad father.

It was lovely to do The Knock because I haven't done anything really significant since Doctor Who.