If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.

We are now left to choose between danger and regret, neither of which can restore the lives we have lost.

I can just close my eyes and let myself fall into oblivion. Maybe I’ll hit the exact same rocks and my blood will mingle with his and maybe there’s some kind of life after death...

The advance of regret can be so gradual that it is impossible to say “yesterday I was happy, today I am not.

Ronald Reagan felt very great regret about the deficits to which he contributed on his watch.

I have no regrets. Just original grets.

Deployed upon that plain they moved in a constant elision, ordained agents of the actual dividing out the world which they encountered and leaving what had been and what would never be alike extinguished on...

I hate New Year’s Eve. One more chance to remember that you haven’t yet done what you wanted. And to pretend it doesn’t matter.

I was wrong about you. I was wrong about a great many things.

There is no regret in planting a seed of love in someone’s heart.

My mind is huge with little stories that I never told you.

Maybe he was going to hell. Except, he could’ve sworn that was where he’d been the past ten years.

I’ll always regret that I left when I left.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, “It might have been.

More tears rushed from the depths of her tortured soul. … The losses piled up.

The regrets about all she had let go flooded her. Where had all that enterprise gone? All that energy? Why had she never traveled? Or had more sex when she could? She had bleached and...

I made an oath to myself:as long as I liveas long as my soul remains in this bodyI won’t deviate from the right waybut later I looked to my left and then to my rightand...

Don’t live in regret! It is such a useless idea.Use the memory to prevent us do bad things!Regret is a childish wish, or an empty hope,trying to revise the bitter memory of the past.

And I am nothing if not a stupid, stupid man.

No amount of guilt can change the past and no amount of worrying can change the future

Somebody asked me what do you regret. I said, well I was offered the role of Maverick in ‘Top Gun’ and I turned it down.

This is a cost straight to our bottom line. We regret the impact on customers’ bills.

I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.

I spent the past two years fearing the worst, that I chose safe arms to hold me when his arms weren’t the arms I longed to be in, nor were they really safe. I thought...

The fools will forever pay the wise for the things that takes only wisdom to do successfully.

I couldn’t understand how boldness and sorrow, how you’re so hard and do you really care for me? could be so thoroughly bound together. Nor could I begin to fathom how someone so seemingly vulnerable,...

Everything since the beginning of time was working together to make my happiness possible: and then you. You walked into the audiovisual lab in your flannel shirt…and you fucked it up! You fucked everything up!...

I do think it’s important to live in the present because in that way you won’t be living in a state of regret.

The man who insists upon seeing with perfect clearness before he decides, never decides. Accept life, and you must accept regret.

The ghosts that exert the most power in people’s lives-at least, the people I know–tend to be of their own making, and consist of equal parts regret and old fears and just plain missing somebody.

There is one woman I’ve dated I just can’t seem to forget, no matter how much I drink or how many concussions I give myself.

It isn’t the great big pleasures that count the most; it’s making a great deal out of the little ones–I’ve discovered the true secret of happiness, Daddy, and that is to live in the now....

That we’d figure it out. That you weren’t alone.” Stab.Twist.He was right. It was just that simple.

There can be, if I forebode aright, no power, short of the Divine mercy, to disclose, whether by uttered words, or by type or emblem, the secrets that may be buried with a human heart....

The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while others at least make new ones. Regret and remorse can...

There are things that have to be done and you do them and you never talk about them.They can’t be justified.You just do them.Then you forget it.

Maybe we’re doing something right, … I don’t mean to sound greedy, but my only regret is that a couple of our films had a good shot: ‘The Untold Story of Emmett Louis Till,’ an...

I thought of the things that had happened to me over the years, and of how little I had made happen.

No,” I say. “I didn’t know that,” and as I say it I feel flooded with bitterness at all the things Ingrid kept secret from me.

From all that I saw,and everywhere I wandered,I learned that time cannot be spent,It only can be squandered.

A life spent at the edge of the pier is a life full of regret, a life full of fear.

I refuse to suffer the torment of regret that comes from living a “what if” life.

The cries of the dead are terrible indeed; you should try not to hear them.

Blame doesn’t empower you. It keeps you stuck in a place you don’t want to be because you don’t want to make the temporary, but painful decision, to be responsible for the outcome of your...

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.

Oh no,” I said, because if our life is just one endless song about hope and regret, then “oh no” is apparently that song’s chorus, the words we always return to.

Take the stupidest thing you’ve ever done. At least it’s done. It’s over. It’s gone. We can all learn from our mistakes and heal and move on. But it’s harder to learn or heal or...

Good…if you’ve done things you aren’t proud of. It means you have a conscience.

…alone in this city, alone on this sea. The days were strewn about him, he was a drunkard of days. He had achieved nothing. He had his life–it was not worth much–not like a life...

People live, and then they die, and as long as they do both things propertly, there’s nothing much to regret.