#regret

Oh, I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly. But that's just part of the deal. I'm not really sure what's going to come out of my mouth. ↗

— Kathy Griffin

#constantly #deal #going #i #just

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment. ↗

— Jim Rohn

#discipline #must #pain #regret #suffer

Under any circumstance, simply do your best, and you will avoid self-judgment, self-abuse and regret. ↗

— Miguel Angel Ruiz

#avoid #best #circumstance #do your best #regret

Both of us are known for probably at times regrettable streak of independence. ↗

— David Kay

#independence #known #probably #regrettable #streak

Leaving England was a painful decision, and we still have some regrets about it. However, at that time, the research environment for theoretical chemistry was clearly better in the U.S. ↗

— John Pople

#better #chemistry #clearly #decision #england

I only regret that I have but one life to lose for my country. ↗

— Nathan Hale

#country #i #life #lose #only

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it. ↗

— George Halas

#ever #gave #his #nobody #regretted

By the time I entered college, I had decided not to have children, a decision that was never regretted. Accordingly, I was careful to court only girls who wanted to have professional careers. ↗

— Donald Cram

#by the time #careers #careful #children #college

I am now 33 years old, and it feels like much time has passed and is passing faster and faster every day. Day to day I have to make all sorts of choices about what is good and important and fun, and then I have to live with the forfeiture of all the other options those choices foreclose. And I'm starting to see how as time gains momentum my choices will narrow and their foreclosures multiply exponentially until I arrive at some point on some branch of all life's sumptuous branching complexity at which I am finally locked in and stuck on one path and time speeds me through stages of stasis and atrophy and decay until I go down for the third time, all struggle for naught, drowned by time. It is dreadful. But since it's my own choices that'll lock me in, it seems unavoidable--if I want to be any kind of grownup, I have to make choices and regret foreclosures and try to live with them. ↗

— David Foster Wallace

#aging #choices #life #life-paths #regrets

For it is now to us itself ancient; and yet its maker was telling of things already old and weighted with regret, and he expended his art in making keen that touch upon the heart which sorrows have that are both poignant and remote. ↗

— J.R.R. Tolkien

#beowulf #loss #poignant #regret #sorrow