Regret Quotes

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.

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I think I don't regret a single excess of my responsive youth—I only regret, in my chilled age, certain occasions and possibilities I didn't embrace.

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

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To regret deeply is to live afresh.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: "It might have been."

Things said or done long years ago,
Or things I did not do or say
But thought that I might say or do,
Weigh me down, and not a day
But something is recalled,
My conscience or my vanity appalled.

Among life's regrets is all the time wasted being early for everything.

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