Quotes About Regret

He once wrote: "Life should not be estimated exclusively by the standard of dollars and cents. I am not disposed to complain that I have planted and others have gathered the fruits. A man has cause for regret only when he sows and no one reaps.

Ever get the feeling you've been cheated?

How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, Stol'n on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!

All our yesterdays, it is true, have only lighted fools the way to dusty death. But we need at least the dates of the yesterdays and the list of the fools.

They paved paradise and put up a parking lot.

To be honest and truthful in all endeavours is an experience, not a regret

In reality, if he had lived, I would have had a dad. And that would have been an incredible experience.

I should say that I am a visual person. I experience with my eyes and never, or rarely, with my ears... to my constant regret.

I made decisions that I regret, and I took them as learning experiences... I'm human, not perfect, like anybody else.

The experience I gained at age 21 would be useful if I were ever 21 again. But I'm 71 and new at it and keep making age 71 mistakes.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

...but I've never regretted it. You can't regret experience.

I don't have any regrets. There's no point regretting anything because everything that you do gives you more experience and potentially makes you a stronger person or a better person.

The trouble with experience is that by the time you have it you are too old to take advantage of it.

Today is the tomorrow you worried about yesterday. Tragedy isn't getting something or failure to get it; it's losing something you already have. Waste not fresh tears over old griefs.

I picture my epitaph: 'Here lies Paul Newman, who died a failure because his eyes turned brown.

Failure is never quite so frightening as regret.

The chance of failure is almost always better than the guarantee of never knowing.

Failed the bright promise of your early day?

It is a massive, undeniable failure and a heap of broken promises.

So here we are, talking about Roman unicycles and alien sandwiches and my sister's Italian misfortunes, while hanging in between us is: MY EPIC FAILURE TO CARPE. What's wrong with me?

Many times through the ages, like as not the chance appears, but because of indecision, man's fond hopes are drowned in tears.

War is the greatest failure of mankind.

I cannot sing the old songs, I sang long years ago, For heart and voice would fail me, And foolish tears would flow.