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Quotes About Regret

The trouble with life is that there are so many beautiful women and so little time.
~ John Barrymore
How could I have been so stupid to ignore everything I'd had in my life? The color red alone was worth kingdoms.
~ Alice Hoffman
You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.
~ Brian Tracy
If you don't pursue what you think will be most meaningful, you will regret it. Life is long. There is always time for Plan B. But don't begin with it.
~ Drew Gilpin Faust
Guilt results from unused life, from the unlived in us.
~ Ernest Becker
If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.
~ Kathryn Schulz
A happy childhood has spoiled many a promising life.
~ Robertson Davies
My life is a series of dumb choices
~ Geoff Ramsey
The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
~ Helen Rowland
The biggest mistake of my life was taking a military education.
~ Robert E. Lee
Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.
~ Steven Pressfield
The fear of becoming old is born of the recognition that one is not living now the life that one wishes.
~ Susan Sontag
Those sins that seem most sweet in life, will prove most bitter in death
~ Thomas Brooks
Tired faith all worn and thin, for all we could have done, and all that could have been.
~ Trent Reznor
Noah, from 'The Young Lions' (1958), was the best performance of my life. I couldn't have given more of myself. I'll never be able to do it again. Never.
~ Montgomery Clift
I often feel that life is about to begin, only to realize it is almost over.
~ Oliver Sacks
How much I missed, simply because I was afraid of missing it.
~ Paulo Coelho, Brida
One can never change the past, only the hold it has on you, and while nothing in your life is reversible, you can reverse it nevertheless.
~ Merle Shain
Of course, you only live one life, and you make all your mistakes, and learn what not to do, and that's the end of you.
~ Richard P. Feynman
I think if Keith Moon was here today and you asked him to recall most of his early life or most of his life, he wouldn't be able to recall it.
~ Roger Daltrey
Your life is what you remember. I mean, some things I wish I still had. But it doesn't matter.
~ Johnny Ramone
What am I most ashamed of in my life? Not keeping my promise to my sister and being too scared of America to attend her funeral.
~ Josephine Baker
I'd give all the wealth that years have piled, the slow result of life's decay, To be once more a little child for one bright summer day.
~ Lewis Carroll
We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.
~ Jim Rohn