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Quotes about Regret

The one charm about the past is that it is the past.
— Oscar Wilde
To regret one's own experiences is to arrest one's own development. To deny one's own experiences is to put a lie into the lips of one's own life. It is no less than a denial of the soul.
— Oscar Wilde
A kiss may ruin a human life
— Oscar Wilde
Gwendolen, it is a terrible thing for a man to find out suddenly that all his life he has been speaking nothing but the truth. Can you forgive me?
— Oscar Wilde
And with tears of blood he cleansed the hand, The hand that held the steel: For only blood can wipe out blood, And only tears can heal
— Oscar Wilde
If I could get back my youth, I'd do anything in the world except get up early, take exercise or be respectable.
— Oscar Wilde
Even you are not rich enough, Sir Robert, to buy back your past. No man is
— Oscar Wilde
The tragedy of growing old is not that one is old but that one is young.
— Oscar Wilde
The Master replied, "The person who would wrestle a tiger bare-handed or march across the Yellow River,106 and who would go to his death without regret—this person I would not take along. It would have to be someone who would approach any situation with trepidation, and who would be fond of planning with an eye to success.
— Confucius
Ever step you take is forever. You cant make it go away. None of it. You understand what I'm sayin?
— Cormac McCarthy
You never know when you'll be in need of them you've despised
— Cormac McCarthy
I think people regret what they didnt do more than what they did. I think everbody has things they failed to do. You cant see what is coming, Bobby. And if you could it is no guarantee you'd make the right choice even then. I believe in God's design.
— Cormac McCarthy