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Quotes About Regret

They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame.
~ Eoin Colfer, The Time Paradox
Some old men, continually praise the time of their youth. In fact, you would almost think that there were no fools in their days, but unluckily they themselves are left as an example.
~ Alexander Pope
Now I am just an elderly lady who is full of spleen, who humps around greater Boston in a God-awful hat, who never lived and yet outlived her time, hating men and dogs and Democrats.
~ Anne Sexton
Dear, sweet, unforgettable childhood! Why does this irrevocable time, forever departed, seem brighter, more festive and richer than it actually was?
~ Anton Chekhov
I quit high school the first day of 10th grade because I felt like I was wasting time.
~ Bam Margera
All this time I've hated myself for it. I thought I'd given it up for nothing. But if I hadn't fallen, I wouldn't have met you.
~ Becca Fitzpatrick
I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.
~ Billy Graham
I ain't saying you treated me unkind you could've done better, but I don't mind. You just kinda wasted my precious time. But don't think twice, it's alright.
~ Bob Dylan
There's a lot of pain in my heart because what I accomplished was second to none. I'm not losing any sleep, but I do pay attention every year at this time.
~ Bob Hayes
If I could go back in time to change stuff? Oh yeah, there's a few movies I would not have done.
~ C. Thomas Howell
...don't act like I didn't for you. I did. Hard. And for a long time. So please, forgive me if now that we're over, I'm exhausted.
~ Cecily von Ziegesar
I didn't know you were having a hard time. I really am unqualified to be a teacher. Hurting you there...I'm really sorry.
~ Cheon Eunbi
I'm getting very old and my bones ache. My sins are deserting me, and if I could only have my time over again I'd take care to commit more of them.
~ Dorothy L. Sayers
I wish I had spent more time at the office and less time in prison.
~ Al Franken
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
~ Dante Alighieri
Time moves on. You can't go back in time. Everything has a consequence, and the last episode of the last season is no exception.
~ Jon Hamm
I said, in talking, that I felt more and more the time wasted that was not spent in Ireland.
~ Lady Gregory
If I could do anything over, I'd have spent more time with my first set of children. I would have taken more quality time with them, for sure.
~ Lee Trevino
I think my real fear is that I will get to old age and think I spent too much time concerned about the way that I look and other bullshit. That's really a fear of mine.
~ June Diane Raphael
Tis an old lesson; time approves it true, And those who know it best, deplore it most; When all is won that all desire to woo, The paltry prize is hardly worth the cost.
~ Lord Byron
A mental stain can neither be blotted out by the passage of time nor washed away by any waters.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
The hours pass and the days and the months and the years, and the past time never returns.
~ Marcus Tullius Cicero
Bad Sausage and five bogeys will give you a stomach ache every time.
~ Miller Barber
Soon I'll be old and I've done precious little in this world for lack of time. I am always afraid I'll become senile before I've finished what I've undertaken.
~ Paul Gauguin