Quotes about Regret
Remember always your end, and that lost time does not return.
— Thomas a Kempis
Yesterday is gone forever. Make the most of today and tomorrow if you wish to make up for lost time.
— Napoleon Hill
Time lost can never be retrieved. Time cannot be hoarded, only spent well.
— J. Oswald Sanders
Deep down I know I could never be that innocent again, however much I'd like to be.
— Anne Frank
I tried to understand the Anne of last year and make apologies for her, because as long as I leave you with these accusations and don't attempt to explain what prompted them, my conscience won't be clear.
— Anne Frank
They say we are punished not for the sin but by the sin, and I began to feel punished by my unwillingness to forgive.
— Anne Lamott
Late is the first step to never.
— Seth Godin
It's fine to experience regret when we abandon a sunk cost. It's a mistake to stick with one simply because we can't bear the regret.
— Seth Godin
The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'
— Conan O'Brien
Nor do I regret that I have lived, since I have so lived that I think I was not born in vain, and I quit life as if it were an inn, not a home.
— Cicero
I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.
— Mark Twain
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; ... I should be sorry to have that voice fall silent and pass out of my life.
— Mark Twain