Regret quotes

“I never asked for anything! Maybe that's the problem!”
Rooney Mara - Therese Belivet

You know, when I lie awake at night and list my regrets, you're one of them. I say to myself, "Simone, you're a lesbian. Why did you sleep with Adam Jones?"
Uma Thurman - Simone Forth

“People shouldn't root around in their past. Some things are best left forgotten.”
Ólafur Darri Ólafsson - Belial

“Oh Jessica, my beloved concubine. I should have married you.”
Jürgen Prochnow - Duke Leto Atreides

“- Maureen: Hey. That is it, actually. Since you asked, that's what I get from him. Something personal. Besides getting it done where it counts, which he does. Cheston and I reach each other. He's tender and sweet and smart and funny and a million things that you aren't.
- Ben Kalmen: I was once, honey. It doesn't last.”

Olivia Thirlby - Maureen
Michael Douglas - Ben Kalmen

“- Bonnie Parker: What would you do if some miracle happened and we could walk out of here tomorrow morning and start all over again clean? No record and nobody after us?
- Clyde Barrow: Well, I guess I'd do it all different. First off, I wouldn't live in the same state where we pull our jobs. We'd live in another state. We'd stay clean there and...” (continue)(continue reading)
Faye Dunaway - Bonnie Parker
Warren Beatty - Clyde Barrow

“I met a man yesterday with a grown son. He told me, looking back, he should have raised the placenta instead.”
Johnathon Schaech - Adam

“- Hayley Stark: Tell me what you're haunted by.
- Jeff Kohlver: Do you wanna remember this day when you're with a guy? On a date? Or on your wedding night? 'Cause I promise you you will. Don't do that to yourself.
- Hayley Stark: You know, that is so thoughtful! You are speaking to me so selflessly! I mean, you just don't want me to castrate you...” (continue)(continue reading)
Ellen Page - Hayley Stark
Patrick Wilson - Jeff Kohlver

“You're not so weird. You're just another lonely man with many regrets.”
Malin Akerman - Constance Sack

“You wanna know what it's like to kill a man? Well, it's goddamn awful, that's what it is. The only thing worse is getting a medal... for killing some poor kid that wanted to just give up, that's all. Yeah, some scared little gook just like you. I shot him in the face with that rifle you were holding in there a while ago. Not a day goes by that I...” (continue)(continue reading)

Clint Eastwood - Walt Kowalski

“I made one decision in my life based on money. And I swore I would never do it again.”
Brad Pitt - Billy Beane

“Ladies and gentlemen of this Congress, it pains my soul to tell you that you have brought blood and shame under this great dome.”
Jeff Bridges - President Jackson Evans

“- Cheerleader: So how does it feel being in drama Cass?
- Cassidy Spilker: Uh, such a bitch.
- Ryan Shoos: Uh what?
- Cassidy Spilker: What? If I had known there was going to be so much actual drama involved I wouldn't have picked it.”
Mackie Burt - Cheerleader
Cassidy Gifford - Cassidy Spilker
Ryan Shoos - Ryan Shoos

“We are all shaped by our pasts. And we carry elements of the past into the future. But nothing can threaten the future quite as much as the debts of the past.”
Dinesh D'Souza - Himself

“Now I've laid me down to die
I pray my neighbours not to pry
Too deeply into sins that I
Not only cannot here deny 
But much enjoyed — as time flew by. ”

Preston Sturges

“- Dana: So, let me establish, you are in fact asking me out on a date?
- Nick Campbell: Yes. And I figure I'm such a mountain of mistakes that going out with me just once this evening will be like packing 10 years of bad experience into, ya know, one night.”
Rose Byrne - Dana
Owen Wilson - Nick Campbell

“- Lisa: Did you ever wish you could delete everything you said as soon as you'd said it? Lately all I do is hear myself being so weak and whiny and needy that I wish I could delete every...
- George: I think the answer to that is to stop talking. Deny a voice to what's falling apart. No lip service. That's my advice to you.”
Reese Witherspoon - Lisa
Paul Rudd - George

“Our orders are to make sure he does not die... but also to make sure he regrets the day he was born.”
Mario Brega - Chico

“- Louis: What if all I have is my suffering, my regret?
- Armand: Don't you want to lose it?
- Louis: Why? So you can have that too? The heart that mourns her, her that you burnt to a cinder.
- Armand: Louis, I swear that I...
- Louis: Ah, but I know you did. I know. You, who regrets nothing, you, who feels nothing. If that's all I have left to...” (continue)(continue reading)
Brad Pitt - Louis
Antonio Banderas - Armand

“- Wailing Woman: Why did I do it? Why did I do it? Why did I do it?
- Halina: She's getting on my nerves. What did she do, for God's sake?
- Father: She smothered her baby.”
Katarzyna Bargielowska - Wailing Woman
Jessica Kate Meyer - Halina
Frank Finlay - Father

“Unlike Lot's wife, I never looked back.”
Helen Mirren - Maria Altmann

“Why do I have the feeling I'm going to regret this in the morning?”
Kelli Maroney - Alison Parks

“All the bright precious things fade so fast, and they don't come back.”
Carey Mulligan - Daisy Buchanan

“What would they say about me? 'He died in a place he didn't need to be, in a battle over something he doesn't understand, in a country that meant nothing to him'.”
John Krasinski - Jack Silva

“Never regret anything you have done with a sincere affection; nothing is lost that is born of the heart.”
Basil Rathbone