Top 470 Regret Quotes

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I am the son of peasants and I know what is happening in the villages. That is why I wanted to take revenge, and I regret nothing.

Here I am, safely returned over those peaks from a journey far more beautiful and strange than anything I had hoped for or imagined – how is it that this safe return brings such regret?

I used to worry a lot and regret a lot before I took on this whole concept of karma. But now I understand that destiny is what it’s all about. I still push ahead and look forward to achieving certain goals but I try not to lay up expectations that they have to happen.

Those of us who are today prepared to hazard our lives for the cause would regret having raised a finger, if we were able to organize only a new social system and not a more righteous one.

I don’t regret things, because I learn from mistakes. If needs be, I always make amends.

Everything happens for a reason. Like when Im asked if I regret not taking the next steps as a rugby player. Well, If I had I likely wouldn’t have done what I have in darts.

You’re never going to regret working out or being active. You might regret not doing it, you might regret pressing that snooze button, but you’ll never regret getting physically active.

I’m trying to make myself better. But I don’t regret anything that I’ve gone through, because it makes me who I am.

I never regret my decisions.

The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favor.

I was always in a big hurry to do everything. Before I was 20, I was married twice and had two kids. But I don’t regret any of it. I learned a lot about myself. I had a lot to say for someone my age, real early on.

When I’m feeling down on myself or not feeling good about who I am, or maybe something happened and I’m feeling depressed, I eat to fill that void. Afterwards I’ll beat myself up about it. I regret doing it, but I’ll turn around and do it again.

I’m often asked if I regret not going to Hollywood. I’m glad I didn’t go, because if I had I wouldn’t have my extended family, which is the fabric of my life. Only recently have I realised how special and unusual it is.

I don’t live in regret land. I live in the now and in the future, and in the dreams that I have.

I don’t regret my choice to sign for Milan.

You always regret upsetting people needlessly.

I often regret that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.

I regret to this day that I never went to college. I feel I should have been a doctor.

I can’t think of anything I regret. Everything I’ve done, I’ve enjoyed doing. I’ve had five husbands, four children. I’ve done it all, but mainly I’ve enjoyed studying fish and being underwater with them, being in their natural habitat, looking at the fish and the fish looking at me.

I hurt people with my words and I regret that.

I try not to spend too much time with regret, although I wish I’d had more hang time with my dad.

I never regret any of the work I’ve done.

Do I regret taking the company public? Yes and no. Yes, because it put us under enormous pressure for a young company to go public at that point in its history, something you never could have done in the old days.

I don’t have many regrets. I regret mistakes, particularly those that damage other people, and we’ve all made some of those. But I’m not sad about change.

I was about to get a degree in economics when I accepted that I’d be a lousy businessman, and if I didn’t give acting a try I’d regret it for the rest of my life.

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didn’t use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

I’m never afraid to try something if I think it’s funny. And I know I’ll regret it if I don’t.

If in my fight I can encourage even some people to understand and to abandon policies they now so blindly follow, I shall not regret any punishment I may incur.

I had to constantly try and fit in it and it really exhausted and tired me. I don’t regret it because that was my learning to learn to come to this point of loving myself unconditionally.

I don’t know if this is a stumbling block, but I had a real setback when I won a Nebula Award for the first story I ever had nominated for a Nebula in 1982. And you might think that was a good thing – and it was a wonderful thing, I don’t regret it a bit. But I was sort of discombobulated by it.

I do not regret it and I really enjoyed my time at Spurs. I improved a lot playing with big players.

It’s the failure of my debut film which made me an actor, which made me want to succeed in the industry. But that doesn’t mean I regret whatever choices I’ve made over the years. No, not even ‘Kaiyethum Doorathu!’

Bereavement is terrible, of course. And when somebody you love dies, it’s a time for reflection, a time for memory, a time for regret.

When people see my show, they may not laugh out loud as they do with some of the classic comedians, but they do enjoy it. I regret that I called it comedy to begin with; I should have called it ‘An Evening With’ or put it down as spoken word. But the emphasis is always on funny stories.

Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God.

Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.

On the field, sometimes passion overwhelms you, and you do things you regret afterward.

I think the AFL was capable of beating the NFL in a Super Bowl game as far back as 1960 or ’61. I just regret we didn’t get the chance to prove it.

As for regret, more than anything else, my regret lies in that the WWE Universe never really got the real Austin Aries. Outside of commentary, they missed out on the chance to hear and see me be me, and do what I do best.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don’t know what the alternative would have been.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it’s God’s will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don’t think I did.

I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises.

I’ve made a lot of mistakes and I don’t regret any of them. Sometimes that’s the only way you learn.

I was 17 or 18 when ‘The Twist’ came along, and the rest is history. Sometimes I regret it. I would have gotten more into acting. I would have been more of a legitimate performer onstage like Liza Minnelli. But I got so caught up in the dance thing that I never got into theater.

I don’t regret standing up to Gamergate at all.

The world’s pretty big. I have to see everything, do everything, eat everything. You’ll never be as young as you are right now, so while your legs still work, while you still have the breath in your lungs, go. At the end of our lives, we only regret the things we didn’t do.

There are endorsements I regret taking when I was younger and didn’t know any better. But I didn’t have options then. People weren’t knocking on my door.

I just feel like you’ve got one life to live and you should live it the way you want, and I’ve really enjoyed playing football. It’s been great for my life and my family, and I never want to look back and regret an opportunity to continue playing.

The thing I regret most about my life are those inane photos of me with icons. They used to come down here and dress me up, and I just tolerated it. It’s my fault. But I shouldn’t have done it. They literally brought down costumes, candles, and icons! It was unbelievable stupidity.

Being in Australia, I was really sun conscious. For a couple of summers there, I did the baby oil thing, and my my mom said, ‘Just don’t. You’ll regret it.’

I don’t think my experience with professional football has been what you’d call normal but I don’t regret it.

I don’t regret the decision to leave Madrid, only the way that I left, which wasn’t the best.

I don’t regret anything I’ve put out there.

I’m not a blokey bloke. I don’t take myself too seriously. But that doesn’t stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you’ve split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That’s quite difficult.

I don’t regret anything.

I love the process – collaborating with the photographers, traveling, and seeing different cultures. My mother always said I would regret it if I didn’t do it. And I think she was right.

That’s one thing I don’t want to happen is a regret getting a tat because that bad boy not going away.

Everything I did and continue to do happens for a reason, and honestly, I don’t regret much in my life.