Quotes about Regret

“Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.”

“To regret deeply is to live afresh.”

“Only in your imagination can you revise.”

“Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.”

“Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.”

“We rarely repent of having eaten too little.”

“It's the things I might have said that fester.”

“Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.”

“My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.”

“The only things I regret... are the things I didn't do.”

“Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.”

“It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.”

“Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.”

“Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.”

“I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.”

“People seldom do what they believe in. They do what is convenient, then repent.”

“One doesn't recognize the really important moments in one's life until it's too late.”

“The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.”

“For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''”

“If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.”

“Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

“I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.”

“I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.”

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.”

“Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.”

“I have no regrets, I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.”

“Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.”

“A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.”

“Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.”

“I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret, if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.”