#regret

He found himself remembering how on one summer morning they two had started from New York in search of happiness. They had never expected to find it, perhaps, yet in itself that quest had been happier than anything he expected forevermore. Life, it seemed, must be a setting up of props around one - otherwise it was disaster. There was no rest, no quiet. He had been futile in longing to drift and dream, no one drifted except to maelstroms, no one dreamed, without his dreams becoming fantastic nightmares of indecision and regret. ↗

— F. Scott Fitzgerald

#happiness #indecision #journey #regret #beauty

I've never known a musician who regretted being one. Whatever deceptions life may have in store for you, music itself is not going to let you down. ↗

— Virgil Thomson

#down #going #i #itself #known

I'm not gonna try to defend, or undo what's been done. All I could say about whatever's been done, it's been done, and it's water under the bridge. I have no regrets of my life. ↗

— Ike Turner

#been #bridge #could #defend #done

Walt Disney got away with portraying me in the light that they were portraying me in. I have always been a fighter, so... But I have no regrets, man. It's just like God brought me through the drugs, I know he'll bring me through this. ↗

— Ike Turner

#away #been #bring #brought #disney

I regret not having had more time with my kids when they were growing up. ↗

— Tina Turner

#growing #growing up #had #having #i

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently. ↗

— Charles Dudley Warner

#everything #history #idle #long #might

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it. ↗

— E. O. Wilson

#career #decided #fell #high #high school

It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true. ↗

— Woodrow Wilson

#lightning #like #only #regret #terribly

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

#any #author #cheap #closet #company

A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future. ↗

— Oliver Goldsmith

#anticipation #calamity #future #great #great source