Regret Quotes - page 6

It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not. (Randy Pausch)
Now, with the glamour of the past upon them we are inclined to look back on old world festivities with regret and consider present day dances as a poor substitute for the old. From an artistic point of view, they maybe, but in individual freedom and independence of spirit they mark a stage upward. View quote
Flora Thompson
I find that life is easier when it is just a blur With no details to confuse who or what or where I was So when the ending comes the full regret will be obscure. View quote
Conor Oberst
I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one. View quote
Anton Chekhov
The only regret I will have in dying is if it is not for love. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I was asked the other day if I would be interested in the Nobel Prize, but I think that for me it would be an absolute catastrophe. I would certainly be interested in deserving it, but to receive it would be terrible. It would just complicate even more the problems of fame. The only thing I really regret in life is not having a daughter. View quote
Gabriel García Márquez
I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something. View quote
Jimi Hendrix
Fate, I respect a lot. I never regret anything. View quote
Anita Pallenberg
I never regret anything. Because every little detail of your life is what made you into who you are in the end. View quote
Drew Barrymore
I do not regret one professional enemy I have made. Any actor who doesn't dare to make an enemy should get out of the business. View quote
Bette Davis
There is no justice. There are occasional acts of vengeance, or regret, but there's no real justice. In the natural scheme of things, it is not possible. (Jack McDevitt)
I am, now as before, of the opinion that I did the best that I could do for my nation. I therefore do not regret my conduct and will bear the consequences that result from my conduct. View quote
Sophie Scholl
Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous. View quote
Wilhelm Stekel
At this point in my life, I find myself obsessed with alternate paths I could've taken. I don't think about this with a sense of regret, but with a sense of wonder... View quote
Ben Gibbard
How sad, ye gods, how sad the world is at evening, how mysterious the mists over the swamps. You will know it when you have suffered greatly before dying, when you have walked through the world carrying an unbearable burden. You know it too when you are weary and ready to leave this earth without regret; it's mists, it's swamps and it's rivers; ready to give yourself into the arms of death with a light heart, knowing that death alone can comfort you. View quote
Mikhail Bulgakov
When I see a beautiful shell like that I can't help feeling a regret about what's inside it. View quote
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Consequently, I won just about everything I set out to win, everything bar the World Cup, of course. But even now, I don't regret that, because I was part of a team which twice reached the semi-finals. View quote
Michel Patini
It's better to regret what you have done than what you haven't. View quote
Paul Arden
I think the last thing you want in life is to live with regret. View quote
Rob Halford
I do not have time to sit down and regret anything although sometimes I wish I had been able to see more of my parents while they were alive and have done more for them. View quote
Roger Moore
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. (Roger Moore)
I regret very much to hear so many people, many of my own countrymen, predicting war, stating that Europe is preparing and arming for such a conflict. View quote
Frank B. Kellogg
I did it to get what I want. Maybe I should regret that, but I can't. Sometimes you do the bad thing and hope for the good result. View quote
Holly Black
It seemed to me the way it must feel to people who cut themselves on purpose. Not pretty, but clean. Not good, but void of regret. I was trying to heal. Trying to get the bad out of my system so I could be good again. To cure me of myself. View quote
Cheryl Strayed
Sometimes you just have to regret things and move on. View quote
Charlaine Harris