#regret

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. ↗

— Stefan Zweig

#bring #does #history #hour #human

It is to be regretted that few persons who have arrived at any degree of eminence or fame, have written Memorials of themselves, at least such as have embraced their private as well as their public life. ↗

— Adam Clarke

#arrived #degree #embraced #eminence #fame

Today I bent the truth to be kind, and I have no regret, for I am far surer of what is kind than I am of what is true. ↗

— Robert Brault

#be kind #bent #far #i #i am

My presidential victory, if it had happened, would have been artificial in relation to the Socialist party. It may be that on my deathbed, I will come to regret my decision, but for the moment, I live at peace with it. ↗

— Jacques Delors

#been #come #deathbed #decision #had

I go to the movies a lot, and I regret when I see some actor that I used to like, to find them offering no more surprises. ↗

— Catherine Deneuve

#find #go #i #i see #like

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

When I went into the last lap I was regretting a bit that it was over. I was enjoying again the first sector for the last time. Simply fantastic this circuit, and if you get 53 laps more, you appreciate it even more. It's made by God's hands. ↗

— Sebastian Vettel

#appreciate #bit #circuit #enjoying #even

My father died. It is still a deep regret to me this day that in choosing acting as my career I was forced to hurt him. He died too early to see I had done the right, the only thing. ↗

— Conrad Veidt

#career #choosing #day #deep #died

I was trying to protect my wife, I was trying to protect myself from shame, and I really regret it. ↗

— Anthony Weiner

#myself #protect #really #regret #shame

There's no point regretting things. If you can't do the time, don't do the crime. Life's too short to worry about things I've said. ↗

— Robbie Williams

#crime #i #life #no point #point