#Regret Quotes

“A young man married is a man that's marred.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me.”

“Let life be short, else shame will be too long.”

“All the perfumes of Arabia will not sweeten this little hand! Oh, oh, oh!”

“woah is me to have seen what i seen see what i see”

“But love that comes too late,Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried,To the great sender turns a sour offense,Crying, 'That's good that's gone.”

“Live in thy shame, but die not shame with thee!”

“That we would doWe should do when we would, for this 'would' changes,And hath abatements and delays as manyAs there are tongues, are hands, are accidents,And then this 'should' is like a spendthrift sigh,That hurts by easing.”

“I wasted time, and now doth time waste me; For now hath time made me his numbering clock: My thoughts are minutes; and with sighs they jar Their watches on unto mine eyes, the outward watch, Whereto my finger, like a dial's point, Is pointing still, in cleansing them from tears. Now sir, the sound that tells what hour it is Are clamorous goans, which strike upon my heart, Which is the bell: so sighs and tears and groans Show minutes, times, and hours.”

“When to the sessions of sweet silent thought I summon up remembrance of things past, I sigh the lack of many a thing I sought.”

“Keep time! How sour sweet music is when time is broke and no proportion kept! So is it in the music of men's lives. I wasted time and now doth time waste me.”

“Things without all remedy should be without regard: what's done is done.”

“Jesu, Jesu, the mad days that I have spent! And to see howmany of my old acquaintance are dead!”

“How my achievements mock me!”

“O, call back yesterday, bid time return”

“Daughter of Time, the hypocrite Days,Muffled and dumb like barefoot dervishes,And marching single in an endless file,Bring diadems and fagots in their hands;To each they offer gifts after his will,Bread, kingdom, stars, and sky that holds them all;I, in my pleached garden watched the pompForgot my morning wishes, hastilyTook a few herbs and apples, and the DayTurned and departed silent. I too lateUnder her solemn fillet saw the scorn.”

“The best quarrels, in the heat, are cursed by those that feel their sharpness.”

“We are always getting ready to live but never living.”

“I can again thy former light restore, Should I repent me: but once put out thy light, Thou cunning'st pattern of excelling nature, I know not where is that Promethean heat That can thy light relume.”

“Then must you speak Of one that loved not wisely but too well, Of one not easily jealous but, being wrought, Perplexed in the extreme; of one whose hand, Like the base Indian, threw a pearl away Richer than all his tribe; of one whose subdued eyes, Albeit unused to the melting mood, Drop tears as fast as the Arabian trees Their medicinable gum. Set you down this, And say besides that in Aleppo once, Where a malignant and a turbaned Turk Beat a Venetian and traduced the state, I took by th' throat the circumcised dog And smote him thus.”

“What our contempts do often hurl from us,We wish it ours again.”

“During their lifetimes, every man and woman will stumble across a great opportunity. Sadly, most of them will simply pick themselves up, dust themselves down and carry on as if nothing ever happened.”

“We are masters of the unsaid words, but slaves of those we let slip out.”

“Speak your latent conviction. . . Else tomorrow a stranger will say with masterly good sense precisely what we have thought and felt all the time, and we shall be forced to take with shame our own opinion from another.”

“Making a big life change is pretty scary. But know what's even scarier? Regret.”

“He that is strucken blind can not forget the precious treasure of his eyesight lost.”

“We are not free to use today, or to promise tomorrow, because we are already mortgaged to yesterday.”

“It is like writing history with lightning and my only regret is that it is all so terribly true.”

“Will you look back on life and say, 'I wish I had,' or 'I’m glad I did'?”

“If you don't set goals, you can't regret not reaching them.”

“What a fool I have been!”

“Time is one thing that can never be retrieved. One may lose and regain friends. One may lose and regain money. Opportunity, once spurned, may come again. But the hours that are lost in idleness can never be brought back to be used in gainful pursuits”

“Everybody stumbles across a golden opportunity at least once in a lifetime. Unfortunately most people just pick themselves up, dust themselves down, and walk away from it.”

“Don't die with your music still in you. Don't die with your purpose unfulfilled. Don't die feeling as if your life has been wrong. Don't let that happen to you.”

“First, imagine taking the potentially regret - producing path of inaction. Then imagine what the very best outcome would be were you to take this risk. By picturing both scenarios in advance, you can avoid the regret of what might have been.”

“I am a most unhappy man. I accidentally ruined my country. A great industrial nation is now controlled by its system of credit. Our government is no longer based on the freedom of opinion, nor on the conviction and the majority decision, it is now a government which is subjected to the conviction and the compulsion of a small group of dominant men.”

“They have done what they like. Their difficulty is to like what they have done.”

“I never worry about action, but only inaction.”

“I would that I were an old beggarRolling a blind pearl eye,For he cannot see my ladyGo gallivanting by.”

“I am a most unhappy man. I have unwittingly ruined my country.”

“The greatest embarrassment of my political career has been that active duties seem to deprive me of time for careful investigation. I seem almost obliged to form conclusions from impressions instead of from study.... I wish that I had more knowledge, more thorough acquaintance, with the matters involved.”

“Another sort of false prayers are our regrets. Discontent is the way of self-reliance: it is infirmity of will. Regret calamities, if you can thereby help the sufferer; if not, attend your own work, and already the evil begins to be repaired.”

“Who seeks, and will not take, when once 'tis offer'd, Shall never find it more.”

“All that I have said and done,Now that I am old and ill,Turns into a question tillI lie awake night after nightAnd never get the answers right.”

“I thought no more was neededYouth to prolongThan dumb-bell and foilTo keep the body young.O who could have foretoldThat the heart grows old?”

“We often repent of what we have said, but never, never, of that which we have not.”

“When you are dissatisfied and would like to go back to youth, think of Algebra.”

“Failure, then, failure! so the world stamps us at every turn. We strew it with our blunders, our misdeeds, our lost opportunities, with all the memorials of our inadequacy to our vocation. And with what a damning emphasis does it then blot us out! No easy fine, no mere apology or formal expiation, will satisfy the world's demands, but every pound of flesh exacted is soaked with all its blood. The subtlest forms of suffering known to man are connected with the poisonous humiliations incidental to these results.”

“There is more blood than paint upon these hands. All those thousands of men killed. We thought it would be a little job, and so it might have been if it had begun in the right way.”

“When I look back on all these worries, I remember the story of the old man who said on his deathbed that he had had a lot of trouble in his life, most of which had never happened”