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Quotes About Regret

To Harald, may God forgive you and forgive me, too, but I prefer to take my life away and our baby's before I bring him with shame or killing him, Lupe. [Suicide note.]
~ Lupe Velez
Never abandon your dreams. You may regret it for the rest of your life.
~ Fabiola Gianotti
I can't stand it to think my life is going so fast and I'm not really living it.
~ Ernest Hemingway
Live your life to the fullest; and then, and only then, die. Don't leave any unlived life behind.
~ Irvin D. Yalom
You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.
~ Saul Bellow
Life is too short for grief. Or regret. Or bullshit.
~ Edward Abbey
Life is too short to do the things you don't love doing.
~ Bruce Dickinson
O, you have torn my life all to pieces... made me be what I prayed you in pity not to make me be again!
~ Thomas Hardy
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness.
~ George Saunders
You know how little while we have to stay, And, once departed, may return no more.
~ Omar Khayyam
Gide says the hell of this life is that between a hundred paths we have to choose only one, and live with nostalgia for the other ninety nine.
~ Fernando Sabino
No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.
~ Saint Augustine
It is not the things we do in life that we regret on our death bed. It is the things we do not.
~ Randy Pausch
If there is anything worth fearing in the world, it is living in such a way that gives one cause for regret in the end.
~ A.C. Grayling
You're alive only once, as far as we know, and what could be worse than getting to the end of your life and realizing you hadn't lived it?
~ Edward Albee
What I regret most in my life are failures of kindness. Those moments when another human being was there, in front of me, suffering, and I responded . . . sensibly. Reservedly. Mildly.
~ George Saunders
Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.
~ Miep Gies
Enjoy the best things in your life cuz you ain't gonna get to live it twice.
~ Mac Miller
Guilt is the thief of life.
~ Anthony Hopkins
Imagine watching all that God might have done with your life if you had let him.
~ John Ortberg
Life has become unbearable ... Forgive me.
~ Dalida
Life is too short to be lived badly.
~ Marjane Satrapi
Life's simple, you make choices and you don't look back.
~ Sung Kang
I never imagined that so many days would ultimately make such a small life.
~ Franz Kafka