Browse through our collection of quotes tagged with Regret & Remorse.
There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
Marcel Proust
It's the things I might have said that fester.
Clemence Dane
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn
The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
Samuel Butler
To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Henry David Thoreau
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
Charles Dudley Warner, My Summer
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Sydney J. Harris, Strictly Perso
When I retire I'm going to spend my evenings by the fireplace going through those boxes. There are things in there that ought to be burned.
Richard Milhous Nixon
I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
Midori Ito
Don't worry about the war. It's all over but the shooting.
Samuel Goldwyn
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
Lucille Ball
When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.
Alexander Graham Bell
I have no apologies, no regrets. I gave my very best efforts.... I've been hung in effigy. I've been spat upon. You just have to let those things bounce off.
William Westmoreland
Some choices we live not only once but a thousand times over, remembering them for the rest of our lives.
Richard Bach
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.
William Cullen Bryant
Well, excuuuuuse me!!!!
Steve Martin
Remorse begets reform.
William Cowper
Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better.
Joseph Joubert
