Regret Quote by David Foster Wallace Download Open image ““The placid hopelessness of adulthood. The complex regret.”” — David Foster Wallace ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.9 out of 5 (10 ratings) Copy quoteShare Regret
“When people grow old and look back on their lives, they don't regret what they did, they regret what they didn't do.” — Joan Caraganis Jakobson Copy Share Image
“Never pass up a valuable opportunity, because regret can last a lifetime.” — Kim Yannayon Copy Share Image
“Too often we look back on our lives with regret. What is done, is done. We learned lessons from those mistakes. Every day is… — Kitt Weagant Copy Share Image
“Every once in a while, life threw you an opportunity to redefine yourself. You could either rise up to the challenge or live with… — Ruth Cardello Copy Share Image
“One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only… — Oscar Wilde Copy Share Image
“Not a big fan of regret myself. It's like walking through life with one hand constantly tied behind your back. Not entirely immobilizing, but… — Melissa Tagg Copy Share Image
“The things that I regret in my life are not errors of judgement but failures of feeling.” — Jeanette Winterson Copy Share Image
“Have no regrets in life because of the choices you make. Good or bad, they are a learning experience, to help you grow. The… — James Hauenstein Copy Share Image
“I have always regretted instances in which I failed to live up to the highest standards of conduct or principles of compassion that I… — K. Lee Lerner Copy Share Image
“If you regret the mistakes you've made and don't wish to repeat them, then your whole life has been worthwhile.” — E.R. Mason Copy Share Image
“I felt more solidly composed, now that I was horizontal. I was impossible to knock down.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“We all have our little solipsistic delusions, ghastly intuitions of utter singularity: that we are the only one in the house who ever fills… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“It's no accident that in a bureaucracy getting fired is called 'termination,' as in ontological erasure.” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
Footnote: 79) The anchor is gigantic and must weigh a hundred tons, and -- delightfully -- it really is anchor-shaped, i.e. the same shape… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“The paradoxical intercourse of audience and celebrity. The suppressed awareness that the whole reason ordinary people found celebrity fascinating was that they were not,… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“I am coming to see that the sensation of the worst nightmares, a sensation that can be felt asleep or awake, is identical to… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“He cranks the condo’s AC way down at night and still most mornings wakes up soaked, fetally curled, entombed in that kind of psychic… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“To me, at least in retrospect, the really interesting question is why dullness proves to be such a powerful impediment to attention. Why we… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“If you’re subjected to enough great salesmen and salespitches and marketing concepts for long enough—like from your earliest Saturday-morning cartoons, let’s say—it is only… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“Why is the truth usually not just un- but anti-interesting?” — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
“She almost reminds the engineer of certain types in high school whom everyone adored because you sensed it made no difference to them whether… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
To be, in a word, unborable… It is the key to modern life. If you are immune to boredom, there is literally nothing you… — David Foster Wallace Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss. — Lilian Salan Copy Share Image
I don't regret burning bridges. I regret that some people weren't on those bridges when I burned them. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through… — Rita Mero Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Having no regrets is very unrealistic. Everyone has that awkward or embarrassing moment they wish they could take back. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
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