Definition of Regret

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Regret

Pain of mind on account of something done or experienced in the past, with a wish that it had been different; a looking back with dissatisfaction or with longing; grief; sorrow; especially, a mourning on account of the loss of some joy, advantage, or satisfaction.

Dislike; aversion.

To experience regret on account of; to lose or miss with a sense of regret; to feel sorrow or dissatisfaction on account of (the happening or the loss of something); as, to regret an error; to regret lost opportunities or friends.

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Regret Quotations

Has this world been so kind to you that you should leave with regret? There are better things ahead than any we leave behind.
C. S. Lewis

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

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

The bed is a bundle of paradoxes: we go to it with reluctance, yet we quit it with regret; we make up our minds every night to leave it early, but we make up our bodies every morning to keep it late.
Ogden Nash

I don't have nothing to regret at all in the past, except that I might've unintentionally hurt somebody else or something.
Jimi Hendrix

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
Katharine Hepburn

I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.
Soren Kierkegaard

My one regret in life is that I am not someone else.
Woody Allen

I should not regret a fair and full trial of the entire abolition of capital punishment.
James Madison

I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done.
Lucille Ball

Regret Translations

regret in Afrikaans is jammer wees
regret in Danish is beklage
regret in Dutch is betreuren, bejammeren
regret in Finnish is valittaa
regret in Italian is pentirsi, compianto, lamentare
regret in Portuguese is pesar
regret in Spanish is lamentar, arrepentirse, endechar

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