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Quotes About Regrets

Looking back on my life, I sigh. The caprice of youth goes with the wind, I've no regrets.
~ Roman Payne
Tout ça c'est des regrets qui ne font pas bouillir la marmite.
~ Louis-Ferdinand Celine
Somadas umas coisas e outras, qualquer pessoa imaginará que não houve míngua nem sobra, e conseguintemente que saí quite com a vida. E imaginará mal; porque ao chegar a este outro lado do mistério achei-me com um pequeno saldo, que é a derradeira negativa deste capítulo de negativas: - Não tive filhos, não transmiti a nenhuma criatura o legado da nossa miséria.
~ Machado de Assis
I have absolutely no regrets in life except regrets for the things I didn't do when I had the chance ~ Donald Pillai
~ Donald Pillai
Whatever tragic spirit lay behind this polished surface went into her singing, with which she tore people's serenity to shreds, spreading anxiety and regrets and nostalgia everywhere.
~ Anais Nin
Someone recently said to me that it is easier to be clever than it is to be kind, and I think that is very true. So I add to my list of regrets the times I have not been kind, choosing instead to be clever, usually at someone else's expense.
~ Anderson Cooper
Life will throw everything but the kitchen sink in your path, and then it will throw the kitchen sink. It's your job to avoid the obstacles. If you let them stop you or distract you, you're not doing your job, and failing to do your job will cause regrets that paralyze you more than a bad back.
~ Andre Agassi
If you ask people what they've always wanted to do, most people haven't done it. That breaks my heart.
~ Angelina Jolie
Who better to confess to than a dying woman?
~ Sara Douglass
have been intoxicated more than once, my passions have never been far off insanity, and I have no regrets: because I have come to realize, in my own way, that people have always felt a need to decry the extraordinary men who accomplish great things, things that seemed impossible, as intoxicated and insane
~ Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
~ John Barrymore
Regrets, Blacksmith, make poor currency. You can't but back with them what you most desire.
~ John Connolly
Some revelations came only with the sound of dirt falling on a coffin; the ones that mattered, the ones that made for regrets.
~ John Connolly
It restores your balance, in the end, even in a funny way your cheerfulness, when you come to know, without regrets, that the best thing that's going to happen in your life has already happened. -from "Snow" in The Big Book of Science Fiction
~ John Crowley
To the poet as a basement quilt, but perhaps To some reader a latticework of regrets.
~ John Ashbery
Life is short and I have some things I'd still like to do.
~ Mark Martin
I have no regrets in my life even the crazy things I've been in. It all made me the I am today and I wouldn't change anything. I'm happy with who I am!
~ Alan Cumming
I don't have any regrets in my life actually. I think that's a pretty good policy.
~ Brooke Burke
I have no regrets about my life. People ask, "If you had to do it all over again, would you do it differently?" No. That's speculation.
~ Chuck Yeager
Ah, my Belovèd, fill the Cup that clearsToday of past Regrets and future Fears:Tomorrow!—Why, Tomorrow I may beMyself with Yesterday's Sev'n thousand Years.
~ Edward Fitzgerald
A motivational love collapses itself, as the poorly constructed objects. Of course, no one bothers and regrets such love.
~ Ehsan Sehgal
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt," Cullen said. "They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks
Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.
~ Eileen Wilks