2,008 Quotes About Regret


  • Author Leni Riefenstahl
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    Where is my guilt? I can regret. I can regret that I made the party film, `Triumph of the Will,' in 1934. But I cannot regret that I lived in that time. No anti-Semitic word has ever crossed my lips. I was never anti-Semitic. I did not join the party. So where then is my guilt? You tell me. I have thrown no atomic bombs. I have never betrayed anyone. What am I guilty of?

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  • Author Marilynne Robinson
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    People who feel any sort of regret where you are concerned will suppose you are angry, and they will see anger in what you do, even if you're just quietly going about a life of your own choosing. They will make you doubt yourself, which, depending on cases, can be a severe distraction and a waste of time. This is a thing I wish I had understood much earlier than I did.

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  • Author Molly Ringwald
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    I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.

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  • Author Nora Roberts
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    No. No, I don't believe you'd betray me with her. I don't believe you'd cheat on me. But I'm afraid, and I'm sick in my heart that you might look at her, then at me. And regret.

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  • Author Odilon Redon
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    It is precisely from the regret left by the imperfect work that the next one can be born.

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