Quotes about Regret
He who know most grieves most for wasted time.
— Dante Alighieri
Sin is in itself separation from the good, but despair over sin is separation a second time.
— Soren Kierkegaard
How soon hath Time, the subtle thief of youth, stolen on his wing my three-and-twentieth year!
— John Milton
Oh, how precious is time, and how it pains me to see it slide away, while I do so little to any good purpose.
— David Brainerd
We should all start to live before we get too old. Fear is stupid. So are regrets.
— Marilyn Monroe
After all these years, I see that I was mistaken about Eve in the beginning; it is better to live outside the Garden with her than inside it without her.
— Mark Twain
Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
Several times during the last three years I have taken up my pen to write to you, but always I feared lest your affectionate regard for me should tempt you to some indiscretion which would betray my secret.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I have never loved, Watson, but if I did and if the woman I loved had met such an end, I might act even as our lawless lion-hunter has done.
— Arthur Conan Doyle
I suppose that I have not many months to live: but of course I know nothing about it. I may add that I am enjoying existence as much as ever, and regret nothing.
— Henry David Thoreau
Let us so live that when we come to die even the undertaker will be sorry.
— Mark Twain
My greatest regret is not having gone to Wellesley College. it is something I have felt a little sad about my whole life.
— Rose Kennedy