past regret
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“All of the pressure or just sort of distractions come from living from past regret or fear of the future or being outcome driven,” Close said this week.
From Los Angeles Times ● Feb. 22, 2024
Gena Rowlands plays a New Yorker at the point in life when what's past hope is past regret, but not past consolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
Gena Rowlands plays a New Yorker who has reached that point in life when what is past hope is past regret, but not past consolation.
From Time Magazine Archive
It was an accident, a calamity, but it is an accomplished fact, and 'what is done, is done,' and 'what is past remedy is past regret.'
From The Lost Lady of Lone by Emma Dorothy Eliza Nevitte Southworth
There is a happiness in past regret; And echoes of the harshest sound are sweet.
From Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume II. by Jean Ingelow
