“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

— Richard Paul Evans

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American writer 1962

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross (1926–2004) American psychiatrist

Source: On Death and Dying (1969), Ch. 9

“The difficulty of writing English is most tiresome to me. My God! If only we could write this beautiful language of France at all times!”

Charles Dickens (1812–1870) English writer and social critic and a Journalist

La difficulté d'écrire l'anglais m'est extrêmement ennuyeuse. Ah, mon Dieu! si l'on pouvait toujours écrire cette belle langue de France!
Letter to John Foster (7 July 1850)

“But then one regrets the loss even of one's worst habits. Perhaps one regrets them the most. They are such an essential part of one's personality.”

Oscar Wilde book The Picture of Dorian Gray

Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray

“It is a sweet, albeit most painful, feeling
To know we are regretted.”

Letitia Elizabeth Landon (1802–1838) English poet and novelist

The Improvisatrice (1824)

“In the most commonplace, tiresome, ridiculous, malicious, coarse, crude, or even crooked people or events I had to seek out rare things, good things, comic things, and I did so.”

William Saroyan (1908–1981) American writer

The Bicycle Rider In Beverly Hills (1952)

“The person whose doors I enter with most pleasure, and quit with most regret, never did me the smallest favour.”

William Hazlitt (1778–1830) English writer

"On the Spirit of Obligations"
The Plain Speaker (1826)

“I feel most miserable
When I can't step "step up to the plate"
You know? People often say
Regret from doing it is better than regret for not doing it”

Ayumi Hamasaki (1978) Japanese recording artist, lyricist, model, and actress

Bold & Delicious
Lyrics, (Miss)Understood

“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”

Eileen Wilks Tempting Danger

Source: Tempting Danger

“To regret your sins of commission as much as your sins of omission is to prove yourself a most unworthy sinner.”

Elizabeth Bibesco (1897–1945) writer, actress; Romanian princess

Haven (1951)

“I have made a lot of mistakes falling in love, and regretted
most of them, but never the potatoes that went with them.”

Nora Ephron (1941–2012) Film director, author screenwriter

“Regret is the most tiresome of companions.”

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