Quotes About Regret

It's not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a lot of it.

The words are all gone, the time's been too long but it's not too late to say I'm sorry to a friend

That's the trouble with losing your mind; by the time it's gone, it's too late to get it back.

Even God cannot change the past.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

There is no greater harm than that of time wasted.

I wish I had spent more time at the office.

Any time gone by was better.

I am old enough to see how little I have done in so much time, and how much I have to do in so little.

Sometimes I wonder will God ever forgive us for what we've done to each other? Then I look around and I realize God left this place a long time ago.

I have never met an old saint who regretted having spent too much time in prayer, but I have met many who regretted having spent too little!

Before you know it it's 3 am and you're 80 years old and you can't remember what it was like to have 20 year old thoughts or a 10 year old heart.

Be careful how you spend your time: Spend your time in nothing which you know must be repented of.

My teachers could easily have ridden with Jesse James for all the time they stole from me.

I used to dream about turning back time, about reclaiming the things I'd lost and the person I used to be.

Nothing is as far away as one minute ago.

Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting.

You must have been warned against letting the golden hours slip by; but some of them are golden only because we let them slip by.

... Nessun maggior dolore Che ricordarsi del tempo felice Nella miseria. (There is no greater pain than to remember a happy time when one is in misery.)

With my time in the limelight, I regret that I didnt use it more to push vegetarianism. I support vegetarian options in the school lunch program.

I got my dog three years ago because I was drunk in a pet store. We had nine cats at the time. The cats started hiding the alcohol after that.

Second guessing a decision is a waste of time.

I look back on the time I've wasted, and I'm just glad I wasted it while I still had the chance.

I don't know anyone who said on their deathbed: 'Gee, I wish I'd spent more time at the office.'