Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
Whatever the opposite of regret is best describes how I've always felt about that decision - it opened me up to a million creative opportunities I needed to experience away from the bull and distorting mirrors that fame engenders.
Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
We should regret our mistakes and learn from them, but never carry them forward into the future with us.
I never regret things. It's a really dangerous thing to say, but for anyone involved in the arts, the bad things that happen make for good material. It's not a comfortable truth, but it is true.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.