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Quotes About Regret

My mother was dead for five years before I knew that I had loved her very much.
~ Lillian Hellman
Out loud I said I had two children. Silently I said three. I always felt like apologizing to her for that.
~ Alice Sebold, The Lovely Bones
Mitch Albom, For One More Day
~ I love you every day, Mom
As my mother says, your forties are when you finally pay for your past mistakes, the cigarettes and sunburns, the Big Macs and smooth-talking men. She may be right.
~ Sarah Strohmeyer
I was a disaster child. I remember I make very often my mother cry.
~ Roberto Cavalli
I am an average mother in almost every way, so yes, much to my regret, I do yell at my children.
~ Kelly Corrigan
Demetrius: Villain, what hast thou done? Aaron: That which thou canst not undo. Chiron: Thou hast undone our mother. Aaron: Villain, I have done thy mother.
~ William Shakespeare
I made the wrong choice ," I whispered. My mother shook her head. "A child should never have to choose.
~ Mitch Albom
They say that at the mountain pass he looked back at his kingdom, his beautiful kingdom, and wept, and his mother told him to weep like a woman for what he could not hold as a man.
~ Philippa Gregory
If you were going to die soon and had only one phone call to make, who would you call and what would you say? And why are you waiting?
~ Stephen Levine
Our biggest regrets are not for the things we have done but for the things we haven't done.
~ Chad Michael Murray
You pile up enough tomorrows and you'll be left with nothing but a bunch of empty yesterdays. I don't know about you, but I'd like to make today worth remembering.
~ Meredith Willson
I always think about what I missed, and I think that was my driving force - never be satisfied with what I've done.
~ Thierry Henry
The most painful thing to experience is not defeat but regret
~ Leo Buscaglia
I could have been a Rhodes Scholar, except for my grades.
~ Duffy Daugherty
Lost time is never found again, and what we call time enough, always proves little enough.
~ Benjamin Franklin
To err is human, to repent divine; to persist devilish.
~ Benjamin Franklin
We profoundly regret the suffering this has caused our fans, our business partners and the thousands of people who depend on our industry for their livelihoods.
~ Gary Bettman
There's no thief like a bad movie.
~ Sam Ewing
I have to say I regretted giving up animated movies.
~ Stanislav Grof
Today will never happen again. Don't waste it with a false start or no start at all.
~ Og Mandino
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.
~ Rafael Sabatini
I whispered to him, You'll regret it if you let me go. I don't wait for a man, if he's not willing to grow' He didn't believe me, he made his choice & That was the last time, he ever heard my voice.
~ Nikki Rowe