REGRET QUOTES III
quotations about regret
I have no regrets. If you regret things, you're sort of stepping backwards. I'm a believer in going forwards.
KATE WINSLET
The Clive James Show, 1998
And doth it haunt thy memory yet,
Mourner, that sad and vain regret?
Hath it pursued thee amid the strife,
The toils, the cares, and fears of life?
MARGARET THERESA WIGHTMAN
"Vain Regrets", The Faithful Shepherd and Other Poems
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting;
We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
ELLA WHEELER WILCOX
"Resolve"
For when regret calls to a person it is always late.
SOREN KIERKEGAARD
Upbuilding Discourses in Various Spirits
I'd never understood the injunction not to regret anything, couldn't see how that wasn't cowardice.
CHINA MIÉVILLE
Embassytown
Heart knows no sorrow like the sorrow of regretting.
MARTHA LAVINIA HOFFMAN
"Under the Violets Blue"
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
No other road, no other way, no day but today.
I can't control my destiny.
I trust my soul. My only goal is just to be.
JONATHAN LARSON
"Another Day", Rent
Here is a sovereign talisman against regret: never do that which might engender it.
DAVID MAMET
Faustus
No trouble ever got fixed late at night.... Midnight is for regrets.
HOLLY BLACK
Red Glove
Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow.
L. RON HUBBARD
The Creation of Human Ability
Of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been!"
JOHN GREENLEAF WHITTIER
"Maud Muller"
The breast ne'er heaved nor throbbed yet
That hath not ached with its vain regret.
MARGARET THERESA WIGHTMAN
"Vain Regrets", The Faithful Shepherd and Other Poems
I knew that what I had felt was envy or regret, not for something lost but for something never achieved.
P. D. JAMES
The Children of Men
We all make mistakes, have struggles, and even regret things in our past. But you are not your mistakes, you are not your struggles, and you are here NOW with the power to shape your day and your future.
STEVE MARABOLI
Unapologetically You
Regrets, toward the evening of life, will occur nearly to all, even the happiest; we mourn the departure of the luminary, though his setting be glorious. How many regrets, too, will at this period occur to those who have utterly, not comparatively, failed in the golden anticipation of their early years! To have missed the pleasures--how inexpressibly bitter is the thought!
J. HILL
Essays on a Few Subjects of General Interest: To Which are Added Scraps and Recollections
The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner.
TALLULAH BANKHEAD
Tallulah: My Autobiography
Don't regret your life, child, it will pass soon enough.
JEANETTE WINTERSON
Lighthousekeeping
Often regret is very false and displaced, and imagines the past to be totally other than it was.
JOHN O'DONOHUE
Anam Cara
Regret is a functional emotion that can protect us from wasting money and help us to maintain good social relationships. Additionally, it makes bad decisions and wrong choices stand out in our memory and helps us to make better decisions in the future.
MARCEL ZEELENBERG
Oxford Companion to Emotion and the Affective Sciences
You'll never regret writing any letter out of love. However, it's a good idea to reread anything you've written in anger.
MARY MATALIN
Letters to My Daughters