Regret Quotes

"It is my biggest regret that I gave up 10 runs on my last outing as a Ranger."

"The regret of my life is that I have not said 'I love you' often enough."

"I think people may regret not following their instincts a lot."

"I was given a lot of opportunities when I was younger that I kind of threw away."

"Life is full of regrets, but it doesn't pay to look back."

"I wasted time, and now doth time waste me."

"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."

Oliver Wendell Holmes Sr.

"I'd rather regret the things I've done than regret the things I haven't done."

Lucille Ball

"The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone."

Harriet Beecher Stowe

"When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough."

Maurice Maeterlinck

"Dead people receive more flowers than the living ones because regret is stronger than gratitude."

Anne Frank

"I knew that if I failed I wouldn't regret that, but I knew the one thing I might regret is not trying."

Jeff Bezos

"For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'"

John Greenleaf Whittier

"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."

"Never regret. If it's good, it's wonderful. If it's bad, it's experience."

Victoria Holt

"The golden moments in the stream of life rush past us, and we see nothing but sand; the angels come to visit us, and we only know them when they are gone."

George Eliot

“Sometimes over things that I did, movies that didn't turn out very well, you go, "Why did you do that?" But in the end, I can't regret them because I met amazing people. There was always something that was worth it.”

“No man is rich enough to buy back his past.”

“I match up with the best guys in the world. I'm not being cocky; it's just always how I felt. But I got into trouble as soon as I got into the NBA, and it left a bad taste in a lot of people's mouths.”

“Even a Steve Jobs has compromised. Even a Kanye West has compromised. Sometimes you don't even know when you're being compromised till after the fact, and that's what you regret.”

“We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.”

“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.”

“Much unhappiness has come into the world because of bewilderment and things left unsaid.”

“How happy had it been for me had I been slain in the battle.”

"If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week."

Charles Darwin