A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
Footfalls echo in the memory down the passage which we did not take towards the door we never opened into the rose-garden.
For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these: ''It might have been!''
Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
I believe that he was really sorry that people would not believe he was sorry that he was not more sorry.
I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret? if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
I have no regrets because I know I did my best — all I could do.
I have no regrets, I wouldn't have lived my life the way I did if I was going to worry about what people were going to say.
I regret the passing of the studio system. I was very appreciative of it because I had no talent.
If your going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for in the morning, sleep late.
It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
It's the things I might have said that fester.
Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it come to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh.
Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
My one regret in life is that I'm not someone else.
Nobody who ever gave his best regretted it.
Nostalgia: When you find the present tense and past perfect.