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No, I regret nothing. All I regret is having been born – dying is such a long tiresome business I always found. Samuel Beckett
You’re getting on that plane with Victor where you belong ... You’ll regret it. Maybe not today, maybe not tomorrow but soon and for the rest of your life. We’ll always have Paris. Casablanca 1942 ***** starring Humphrey Bogart & Ingrid Bergman & Paul Henreid & Claude Rains & Conrad Veidt & Sydney Greenstreet & Peter Lorre & Curt Bois et al, director Michael Curtiz
Droll thing life is – that mysterious arrangement of merciless logic for a futile purpose. The most you can hope from it is some knowledge of yourself – that comes too late – a crop of inextinguishable regrets. Joseph Conrad, Heart of Darkness
My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. Woody Allen
This world that was our home for a brief spell never brought us anything but pain and grief; it’s a shame that not one of our problems was ever solved. We depart with a thousand regrets in our hearts. Omar Khayyam
When it comes to Ziyal, I regret nothing. Star Trek: Deep Space Nine s4e14: Return to Grace, Gul Dukat to Kira
I believe you feel regret. But in my mind you are dangerous. Star Trek: Discovery s1e3: Context is for Kings, First officer Saru to Michael
Do not regret loving someone, Michael. Star Trek: Discovery s1e14: The War Without, The War Within, Sarek
Never a word of regret. Beate Klarsfeld, re captured Nazi
I have no regrets about boxing. No regrets. Muhammad Ali
No regrets, none at all. My only regret is that we went out on penalties. That’s my only regret but no, no regrets. Mick McCarthy
Non! rien de rien,
Non! je ne regrette rien,
Ni le bien qu’on m’a fait,
Ni le mal - tout ca m’est bien egal! Micel Vaucaire, song 1960
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can’t build on it; it’s only good for wallowing in. Katherine Mansfield
Regret is for what you didn’t do, and remorse is for what you did. Christopher Hitchens: Hay Sessions 2010
I wish I had at least run for parliament; it should be the aspiration of everyone to serve their country in parliament. I didn’t even try and it’s too late now. Then I was expelled from the Labour Party ... because of Vietnam. ibid.
If, of all words of tongue or pen
The saddest are, It might have been. John Greenleaf Whittier, attributions & variations inc Kurt Vonnegut
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets. Arthur Miller, The Ride Down Mount Morgan
Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart. Basil Rathbone
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. Henry David Thoreau
Don’t feel sorry, kid. Don’t ever feel sorry. It’s like poison to a man. Face of a Fugitive 1959 starring Fred MacMurray & Lin McCarthy & Dorothy Green & Alan Baxter & James Coburn & Gina Gillespie et al, director Paul Wendkos, hero to sidekick
I am as sorry as you are, Dimitri. Don’t say that you’re more sorry than I am, because I am capable of being just as sorry as you are. So we’re both sorry, all right? Dr Strangelove 1963 starring Peter Sellers & George C Scott & Sterling Hayden & Keenan Wynn & Slim Pickens & Peter Bull & James Earl Jones & Shane Rimmer & Tracy Reed, president US to president USSR
‘Regrets,’ said Martin, ‘are the natural property of grey hairs; and I enjoy, in common with all other men, at least my share of such inheritance.’ Charles Dickens, Martin Chuzzlewit
Regret not me;
Beneath the sunny tree
I lie uncaring, slumbering peacefully ... Thomas Hardy, Regret Not Me
I’ve no regrets at all, but I still think at times that I would have loved to play in England. You live football over there; it’s a great culture. People respect you more; it’s more difficult to find respect in Spain. There is more criticism here. Xavi
Do you have any regrets for the things you’ve done? The Iceman 2012 starring Michael Shannon & Winona Ryder & Chris Evans & Ray Liotta & James Franco & David Schwimmer & Stephen Dorff & Erin Cummings & Robert Davi & Weronika Rosati et al, director Ariel Vromen, opening scene interviewer to Kuklinski
Fucking guy’s cold was ice. ibid. Liotta
You’re gonna be watching my back. You’re gonna be collecting debts. You’re gonna be sending messages, whatever the messages are. ibid.
I never felt sorry for anything I done. Other than hurting my family. The only thing I feel sorry for. I’m not looking for forgiveness. I’m not repenting. ibid.
I ain’t sorry for what I done … I figure there’s a lot of people out there tired of all the raping and killing. They’d be sympathetic to a man who took the law into his own hands even if he is black. A Time to Kill 1996 starring Samuel L Jackson & Matthew McConaughey & Kevin Spacey & Sandra Bullock & Brenda Fricker & Oliver Platt & Charles S Dutton & Ashley Judd & Patrick McGoohan & Kiefer Sutherland & Donald Sutherland & John Diehl et al, director Joel Schumacher, Carl to Jake
Hannah Conway: Do you ever regret not having children? …
Claire: Do you ever regret having them? House of Cards s4e12: Chapter 51, Netflix 2016
For the majority of us, the past is a regret, the future an experiment. Mark Twain