#regret

You can have immediate regrets, but if you look at stuff and say, 'Things happen for a reason', there's a fatalistic thing about it. Something will happen that will justify it in some way. ↗

— Martin Landau

#happen #immediate #justify #look #reason

Were it not better to forget than to remember and regret? ↗

— Letitia Elizabeth Landon

#forget #regret #remember #than #were

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else. ↗

— Queen Latifah

#decisions #else #experiences #human #i

There's no regret. You can't regret. I mean, I've felt regret but I've also refused to allow regret to sow a seed and live in me because I don't believe it. You feel it, it's like guilt, it's like jealousy, it's like all those horrible things. You've just got to snip them and get them out, because they're no good. ↗

— Jude Law

#allow #also #because #believe #feel

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind. ↗

— C. S. Lewis

#any #been #behind #better #better things

I'm sad to see the passing of the great drug warriors. I certainly did my part in that battle and I don't regret any of it. ↗

— Marc Maron

#battle #certainly #did #great #i

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret. ↗

— Mary McCarthy

#away #bad #bad one #difficult #flash

I have no regrets. ↗

— Trevor McDonald

#no regrets #regrets

One important theme is the extent to which one can ever correct an error, especially outside any frame of religious forgiveness. All of us have done something we regret - how we manage to remove that from our conscience, or whether that's even possible, interested me. ↗

— Ian Mcewan

#conscience #correct #done #error #especially

The difference between a moral man and a man of honor is that the latter regrets a discreditable act, even when it has worked and he has not been caught. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#been #between #caught #difference #even