Regret Quotes

21 quotations about Regret

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

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

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

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

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

Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs.

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

Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.

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

We rarely repent of having eaten too little.

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

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

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

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.

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

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

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

Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.

Only in your imagination can you revise.

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

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