2,008 Quotes About Regret


  • Author Sophocles
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    You clearly hate to yield, but you will regret it when your anger has passed. Such natures are justly the hardest for themselves to bear.

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  • Author Susan Sontag
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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.

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  • Author Tupac Shakur
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    The eyes of mortal men, threaten you with doom They regret to see you, set, but it is time, for the moon

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  • Author Victor Salva
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    I think I'm very interested in people, in the way our minds work and how we navigate through the experience that is life. Very interested in people's struggles and their choices and their regrets and joys. I'm very interested in the human animal.

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  • Author Wanda Sykes
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    People say, 'Well don't you regret not having kids?' And I go, 'No, not really.' And then if they keep asking, I always say this, 'Well, you know, maybe I'll adopt.' But I don't mean that. It's just something I say to make me sound like a nicer person.

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  • Author Wilhelm Stekel
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    Many an attack of depression is nothing but the expression of regret at having to be virtuous.

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