Quotes About Regret

One always wonders about roads not taken.

I would love to go back and travel the road not taken, if I knew at the end of it I'd find the same set of grandkids.

I was afterwards sorry for this, though, if I ever travel again, I shall trust to none but natives, as the climate of Africa is too trying to foreigners.

The most useful form of time travel would be to go back a year or two and rectify the mistakes we made.

Stephen King, 11/22/63

If you could travel back in time to the present moment, what would you do differently?

It's just hard to travel in the shadow of regret. In fact, it's so hard that I actually haven't left yet.

Reassuring thoughts have a funny way of getting stuck on repeat. Then you wake up one day and you can't remember where you put the last thirty years of your life.

That's one of those questions that you think of a better answer for five minutes after you've answered it.

If only, if only," the woodpecker sighs, "The bark on the tree was as soft as the skies." While the wolf waits below, hungry and lonely, Crying to the moo-oo-oon, "If only, If only.

So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.

A bad book owes to many trees | A forest of apologies.

I almost wish I'd had the forethought to eat a tree myself.

I've been barbecued, stewed, screwed, tattooed, and fried by people claiming to be my friends. The human race has gone backward, not forward, since the days we were apes swinging through the trees.

Oh no, hon we were too late. Tiger-boy done pissed down the wrong honey tree and got all the bees, or in this case, bears, going wild. (Fury)

I've killed enough of the world's trees.

Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.

I'd rather trust and regret than doubt and regret.

I don't want to say my biggest mistake--I don't want to tell the whole world that. Trust me, I've made plenty. But I don't regret them because they've made me the person that I am right now.

One of the mistakes I made was placing too much trust in Montesinos.

there are worse things than being alone but it often takes decades to realize this and most often when you do it's too late and there's nothing worse than too late

I will spend the rest of my life trying to earn back trust and apologize to people.

I am sorry I couldn't complete my term as leader. It is necessary for my staff to resign ... to regain the people's trust.

Do you remember the last thing you said to me? The last thing you did to me? And what was the last thing I said to you? Because trust me when I said it I knew it was the last thing I'd ever say.