Quotes About Regret

The clock upbraids me with the waste of time.

Lost time is like a run in a stocking. It always gets worse.

If time be of all things most precious, wasting time must be the greatest prodigality, since lost time is never found again.

A fool bolts pleasure, then complains of indigestion.

And hearts have been broken from harsh words spoken That sorrow can ne'er set right.

The sad truth is that opportunity doesn't knock twice. You can put things off until tomorrow but tomorrow may never come. Where will you be a few years down the line? Will it be everything you dreamed of? We seal our fate with the choices we take, but don't give a second thought to the chances we take.

Do not suppose opportunity will knock twice at your door.

I'd rather have written "Cheers" than anything I've written.

To most of us the real life is the life we do not lead.

If I had my life to live over, I wish I could be a great pianist or something.

0 God! Put back Thy universe and give me yesterday.

1 tell you the past is a bucket of ashes.

My punishment is greater than I can bear.

Very frequently, feminine activity also expresses itself in what is largely a retrospectively oriented pondering over what we ought to have done differently in life, and how we ought to have done it; or, as if under compulsion, we make up strings of causal connections. We like to call this thinking; though, on the contrary, it is a form of mental activity that is strangely pointless and unproductive, a form that really leads only to self-torture.

When one door closes another opens. But we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we fail to see the one that has opened for us.

No doing without some ruing.

Were it not better to forget Than to remember and regret?

Always repenting of wrongs done will never bring my heart to rest.

Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it is good only for wallowing.

"The horror of that moment," the King went on, "I shall never forget." "You will, though," the Queen said, "if you don't make a memorandum of it."

There is no greater sorrow than to recall a happy time in the midst of wretchedness.

We should have no regrets. ... The past is finished. There is nothing to be gained by going over it. Whatever it gave us in the experiences it brought us was something we had to know.

One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining against the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the essence of life.

Hindsight is always zo/20.