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Quotes About Regrets

Il a, sur le bord des lèvres, toutes les rancunes de l'enfance.
~ Philippe Besson
Il faudrait avoir des regrets. Croire que j'aurais mieux fait de me rebeller, mais non, je n'y arrive pas. Si c'était à refaire, je ne changerais rien. Avec toi, quelle qu'aurait été la manière, je n'aurais pu échapper à la souffrance, à la pureté éclatante de la souffrance.
~ Philippe Besson
If a conscience is living in a world defined by regrets, then yeah, I've got a conscience. My very first thought every morning is what I've done wrong. That
~ Jon Ronson
Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
~ Joseph Campbell
Nevertheless, every failure to cope with a life situation must be laid, in the end, to a restriction of consciousness. Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.
~ Joseph Campbell
Life is too short to be anything but happy. So kiss slowly. Love deeply. Forgive quickly. Take chances and never have regrets. Forget the past but remember what it taught you.
~ Abhishek Shukla
But one thing I won't have is regrets. My VIP patients often regret so many things on their deathbeds. They regret the bitterness they'll leave in people's hearts. They realize that no money, no church service, no eulogy, no funeral procession no matter how elaborate, can remove the legacy of a mean spirit.
~ Abraham Verghese
TNA has had a lot of great periods - Hulk Hogan even came in, but I don't think he was beneficial to TNA. They spent a lot of money on him, but made a lot of mistakes. They should have saved that money for me.
~ Matt Hardy
But if I die without trying again, I'm a coward. I don't mind having regrets about stuff I've done. It's the regrets about stuff I haven't done that bother me.
~ Poppy Z. Brite
A thousand regrets I've had in love, A thousand times I've longed to change the past. I know, my love, there is no going back. No undoing of our thousand burdens. We must go on despite our heavy hearts. A thousand regrets I've had in love, but I shall never regret you.
~ Rachel Hartman
I have no regrets about not having children. I still wait for the pang of guilt, but I have none. I tune into the television show 'Nanny 911' occasionally which reminds me how much patience and love it take to be a good parent.
~ Amanda Donohoe
I am a very big admirer of Bejoy's films and have waited for five months to be part of his film. But I have no regrets and will wait for an indefinite time as, if I love and believe in something, I do it completely and unconditionally.
~ Harshvardhan Rane
California is infamous for passing things and then waking up and saying, 'What the hell did we just pass?'
~ Gavin Newsom
I want to lay all my cards out on the table and walk away with no regrets.
~ Katarina Johnson-Thompson
I think that my regrets mostly have to do with my relationship with my ex-girlfriend. Every once in a while, you get those flashback memories of conversations you had with your exes, and you just, like, wince when you're walking down the street. Something occurs to you, 'Oh, no, I said that.'
~ Mike Birbiglia
I'm hanging in there, trying to spend as much quality time with my wife and kids as possible, and though it's very frustrating to know I won't beat the cancer, there's a great satisfaction in knowing that I'm walking off the field with no regrets.
~ Randy Pausch
I can remember all the bad games and rubbish shots I've played far more than all my successes. Luckily, as I've got older, I've got better at dealing with that. What's the point of regrets? They don't change anything.
~ Andrew Flintoff
When suddenly your focus changes, you see the years going by and it's an extra reminder that you don't want to live life with any regrets.
~ Ben Fogle
The regrets I have are strong enough that I wouldn't share 'em. I think that you can't live without suffering some.
~ Ron Howard
Once you have conquered your profession and are standing at the summit, it is all very well to look back down the slope and indulge yourself with regrets.
~ Katie Hopkins
I love the game so much. I've been penalized. I've been fined. I have some regrets in my career. But for those four hours on Sunday, you can be free and just let it all go. Retiring had nothing to do with football; it had to do with my family.
~ Randy Moss
Why should I cumber myself with regrets that the receiver is not capacious? It never troubles the sun that some of his rays fall wide and vain into ungrateful space, and only a small part on the reflecting planet. Let your greatness educate the crude and cold companion.
~ Ralph Waldo Emerson
Better than putting things in the attic you never use again. This way, you get to live the summer over for a minute or two here or there along the way through the winter, and when the bottles are empty the summer's gone for good and no regrets and no sentimental trash lying about for you to stumble over forty years from now. Clean, smokeless, efficient, that's dandelion wine. (page 266 in the 1975 hardback)
~ Ray Bradbury
There's no initiation either into such mysteries. He has to live in the midst of the incomprehensible, which is also detestable. And it has a fascination, too, that goes to work upon him. The fascination of the abomination—you know, imagine the growing regrets, the longing to escape, the powerless disgust, the surrender, the hate.
~ Joseph Conrad