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Oscar Wilde Quotes about Regret

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To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

To regret one’s own experiences is to arrest one’s own development. To deny one’s own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one’s own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Lying, Soul
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.100, Oxford University Press on Demand

Never regret thy fall, O Icarus of the fearless flight For the greatest tragedy of them all Is never to feel the burning light.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Fall, Light

It is better to repent a sin than regret the loss of a pleasure.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Loss, Sin

We live, I regret to say, in an age of Big Data hype.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Data, Hype

Believe me, no civilized man ever regrets a pleasure, and no uncivilized man ever knows what a pleasure is.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Believe, Men
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.236, Oxford University Press on Demand

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
Happiness, Regret, Loss
Oscar Wilde (2010). “The Picture of Dorian Gray”, p.223, Bibliolis Books

The past could always be annihilated. Regret, denial, or forgetfulness could do that. But the future was inevitable.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Past, Anxiety
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Joseph Bristow, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: The picture of Dorian Gray : the 1890 and 1891 texts”, p.96, Oxford University Press on Demand

The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Mistake, Common Sense
The Picture of Dorian Gray ch. 3 (1891)

The body sins once, and has done with its sin, for action is a mode of purification. Nothing remains then but the recollection of a pleasure, or the luxury of a regret.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Luxury, Done
Oscar Wilde (2015). “The Picture of Dorian Gray (Diversion Classics)”, p.23, Diversion Books

The worst of it is that I am perpetually being punished for nothing; this governor loves to punish, and he punishes by taking my books away from me. It's perfectly awful to let the mind grind itself away between the upper and nether millstones of regret and remorse without respite; with books my life would be livable -- any life.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Book, Mind

I don’t regret for a single moment having lived for pleasure. I did it to the full, as one should do everything that one does. There was no pleasure I did not experience.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Doe, Moments
Oscar Wilde, Russell Jackson, Ian Small (2000). “The Complete Works of Oscar Wilde: De profundis, "Epistola : in carcere et vinculis"”, p.109, Oxford University Press on Demand

It is chiefly, I regret to say, through journalism that such people find expression. I regret it because there is much to be said in favour of modern journalism. By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, it keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

Oscar Wilde
Regret, Ignorance, Modern Journalism
Oscar Wilde (2007). “The Collected Works of Oscar Wilde”, p.1005, Wordsworth Editions

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