I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least.
We keep ourselves so tied up in regretting the past and fearing the future that we don't have any energy left to figure out who we are and what we want to create right now.
When men are not regretting that life is so short, they are doing something to kill time.
In a serious sense, wanting to change something from the past doesn't work for me - change something you don't enjoy now rather than regretting it later.
Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.
There cannot be many people who can go through life without regretting sooner or later a lack of knowledge about horses.
Regretting the past does not prevent me from repeating it.
If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.
We waste half our strength in a useless regretting; We sit by old tombs in the dark too long.
Love is. . . what I gave you, Noona. That is love. After you lost it, you realized how precious it was. You're regretting it to the degree you could vomit blood. No matter what price you have to pay, you want to find it again. That is love, right, Noona?
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.
I know that I shall die struggling for breath, and I know that I shall be horribly afraid. I know that I shall not be able to keep myself from regretting bitterly the life that has brought me to such a pass; but I disown that regret. I now, weak, old, diseased, poor, dying, hold still my soul in my hands, and I regret nothing.
I don't go around regretting things that don't happen.
Don't squander what you have. If you do, you'll spend the rest of your days regretting it.
The moment passes. There is no point in regretting irreversible decisions—one has to live with them, and we try.
I felt that I ostracized myself by my behavior, by the past, by living with all the regrets of my mistakes, that I sort of wore a hair shirt and beat myself up most of the day thinking and regretting why did I make such a mistake? Why have I made so many mistakes?
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.
