China Mieville Quotes

I don't really regret anything in my life.

I don't have any regrets.

I truly don't believe in regret.

I believe there were things I probably should have done differently. But I'm not going to spend a lot of time crying over spilt milk.

I don't really have any regrets.

I try not to look back on my life and be regretful.

All things are possible, ... Except the passing of regret.

I never regret anything and I don't believe in regret. I think it's just a big time-waster.

There are a few things that I regret, but nothing that I need to forget.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

It's hard to tell our good luck sometimes. Hard to tell sometimes for many years to come. And most of us have wept copious tears over someone or something, when if we'd understood the situation better, we might have celebrated our good fortune insteadOne can never change the past, only the hold it has on you and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.

Just because you are embarrassed to admit that you're still living the consequences of bad decisions made 5, 10, 20 years ago shouldn't stop you from making good decisions now. If you let pride stop you, you will hate life 5, 10, and 20 years from now for the same reasons.

Don't look back, never look back. How often do people tell themselves that after an experience that is exceptionally good (or exceptionally bad?)? Often, I suppose. And the advice usually goes unheeded. Humans were built to look back; that's why we have tat swivel joint in our necks.

There comes a certain point in life when you have to stop blaming other people for how you feel or the misfortunes in your life. You can't go through life obsessing about what might have been.

I have quite a robust relationship with regret. You simply don't know what the alternative would have been.

I wouldn't go back and change anything.

I'm not a great one for looking back.

Self-acknowledgment boosts your emotional and spiritual immunity, giving you the strength you need to release the past and rise above fear, doubt or resignation.

I find myself thinking more about the past as I get older... maybe because there's just more of it to think about. At the same time, I'm less haunted by it than I was as a younger person. I guess that's probably the ideal: to reach a point where you have access to all of your memories, but you don't feel victimized by them.

I'm not really one for regrets.

I can't dwell on past mistakes.

I don't mind talking about 'what might have been,' but I am not one to doubt or regret most of my decisions.

I don't regret anything in life.

As far as the regrets go, that's just not part of my makeup.

I have regrets, but you live and learn.