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 who has reached that point in life when what is past hope is past regret, but not past consolation.

From Time Magazine Archive

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

We cannot know—so fill the cup that clears To-day of past regret and future fears: To-morrow!—Why,

From Song-Surf by Rice, Cale Young

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 Ingelow, Jean