Regret Quotes - Page 31

• Cecilia wondered, as she sometimes did when she met a man for the first time, if this was the one she was going to marry, and whether it was this particular moment she would remember for the rest of her life - with gratitude, or profound and particular regret.

  Ian Mcewan

  Gratitude, Men, Profound

  "Atonement". Book by Ian Mcewan, March 11, 2010.

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• Do I realy regret that night? That one moment of joy beyond compare – some people never experience it in a lifetime. But the downside to that taste of pure happiness is that,like a drug, a glimmer of paradise, it leaves you craving more.

  Tabitha Suzuma

  Night, People, Joy

  Tabitha Suzuma (2012). “Forbidden”, p.200, Simon and Schuster

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• Heartbreak could be lived with if it weren't accompanied by regret.

  Laura Kasischke

  Motivational, Sad, Heartbroken

  Laura Kasischke (2011). “The Raising”, p.178, Atlantic Books Ltd

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• Opportunities flit by while we sit regretting the chances we have lost, and the happiness that comes to us we heed not, because of the happiness that is gone.

  Jerome K. Jerome

  Happiness, Opportunity, Joy

  Jerome K. Jerome (2016). “The Idle Thoughts of an Idle Fellow”, p.133, Jerome K. Jerome

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• Success is meaningless if you can't sleep at night because of harsh things said, petty secrets sharpened against hard and stony regret, just waiting to be plunged into the soft underbelly of a 'friendship.'

  Margaret Cho

  Congratulations, Sleep, Night

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• We must each lead a way of life with self-awareness and compassion, to do as much as we can. Then, whatever happens we will have no regrets.

  Dalai Lama

  Life, Compassion, Self

  His Holiness The Dalai Lama (1998). “Path To Tranquility”, p.237, Penguin Books India

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• There are people who live lives little different than the beasts,and I don't mean that badly. I mean that they accept whatever happens day to day without struggle or question or regret. To them things just are, like the earth and sky and seasons.

  Celeste De Blasis

  Struggle, Live Life, Mean

  Celeste De Blasis (1985). “Wild Swan”, Bantam Books

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• I loathed every day and regret every moment I spent in a school.

  Woody Allen

  Educational, School, Moments

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• She was fabulously wrong when she said it the first time, and stunningly arrogant in her refusal to express any regret for lying to our fellow citizens.

  Trey Gowdy

  Lying, Bad Ass, Citizens

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• Imagine a world in which every single person on the planet is given free access to the sum of all human knowledge. Wikis give us a place where anyone who is kind, thoughtful and intelligent can come and join us in building a better and more rational world. Jimmy Wales Guard well within yourself that treasure, kindness. Know how to give without hesitation, how to lose without regret, how to acquire without meanness.

  George Sand

  Kindness, Thoughtful, Intelligent

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• No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting. She will not want new fashions nor regret the loss of expensive diversions or variety of company if she can be amused with an author in her closet.

  Mary Wortley Montagu

  Fashion, Reading, Loss

  Mary Wortley Montagu, James Archibald Stuart-Wortley-Mackenzie Wharncliffe (1837). “The Letters and Works: In Three Volumes”, p.43

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• The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

  Oscar Wilde

  Luxury, Done, Body

  Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books

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• Never regret your past. Accept it as the teacher that it is.

  Robin Sharma

  Teacher, Inspirational Life, Past

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• And ye, who have met with Adversity's blast, And been bow'd to the earth by its fury; To whom the Twelve Months, that have recently pass'd Were as harsh as a prejudiced jury - Still, fill to the Future! and join in our chime, The regrets of remembrance to cozen, And having obtained a New Trial of Time, Shout in hopes of a kindlier dozen.

  Thomas Hood

  New Year, Holiday, Adversity

  Thomas Campbell, Samuel Carter Hall, Edward Bulwer Lytton Baron Lytton, Theodore Edward Hook, Thomas Hood (1842). “The New Monthly Magazine”, p.2

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• We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.

  Gary Bettman

  Inspirational, Motivational, Hockey

  "Frozen Out: A season without Ice Hockey". "The Sports Factor" with Mick O'Regan, www.abc.net.au. April 22, 2005.

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• I do not have regrets. I believe I helped preserve the peace for this country. Why should I regret that? What I accomplished was approved by Congress -- which represents our people. All of you live in safety from domestic enemies because of security from the police. Likewise, you live in safety from foreign enemies because our military keeps them from attacking us.

  Hyman Rickover

  Country, Military, Believe

  "Thoughts on Man's Purpose in Life". Second Annual Morgenthau Memorial Lecture, Carnegie Council for Ethics in International Affairs, 1982.

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• Spendin all the money I just worked my ass off for doing things that I won't regret.

  Drake

  Inspirational, Life, Money

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• Dream golf is simply golf played on another course. We chip from glass tables onto moving stairways; we swing in a straightjacket, through masses of cobweb, and awaken not with any sense of unjust hazard but only with a regret that the round can never be completed, and that one of our phantasmal companions has kept the scorecard.

  John Updike

  Dream, Moving, Golf

  John Updike (2012). “Golf Dreams”, p.22, Penguin UK

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• When we are certain that the way to accomplish our own wishes is to help others, we have no regrets.

  Sakyong Mipham

  Helping Others, Wish, Way

  Sakyong Mipham (2005). “Ruling Your World: Ancient Strategies For Modern Life”, p.64, Harmony

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• It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer the deepest remorse for an undetected crime, but he will not blush... It is not the sense of guilt, but the thought that others think or know us to be guilty which crimsons the face.

  Charles Darwin

  Men, Emotional, Thinking

  Charles Darwin (1874). “The Expression of the Emotions in Man and Animals”, p.332

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• Why does man regret, even though he may endeavour to banish any such regret, that he has followed the one natural impulse, rather than the other; and why does he further feel that he ought to regret his conduct? Man in this respect differs profoundly from the lower animals.

  Charles Darwin

  Science, Animal, Men

  Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.531, Broadview Press

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• The most valuable thing I have learned from life is to regret nothing.

  W. Somerset Maugham

  Wisdom, Life Is, I Have Learned

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• The dreams of youth are the regrets of maturity.

  Tim Curry

  Dream, Maturity, Youth

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• Most men experience getting older with regret, apprehension. But most women experience it even more painfully: with shame. Aging is a man's destiny, something that must happen because he is a human being. For a woman, aging is not only her destiny . . . it is also her vulnerability.

  Susan Sontag

  Destiny, Men, Getting Older

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• Who that has plodded on to middle age would take back upon his shoulders ten of the vanished years, with their mingled pleasures and pains? Who would return to the youth he is forever pretending to regret?

  Agnes Repplier

  Pain, Years, Forever

  Agnes Repplier (1888). “Books and Men”

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