Regret Quotes

A man is not old until his regrets take the place of his dreams. Proverb

“Many of us crucify ourselves between two thieves - regret for the past and fear of the future.” Fulton Oursler

 “I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through build character, making you a much stronger person.” Rita Mero 

 “If only. Those must be the two saddest words in the world.” Mercedes Lackey

“Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.” Sydney Smith 

“When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us.” Alexander Graham Bell

“I see it all perfectly; there are two possible situations - one can either do this or that. My honest opinion and my friendly advice is this: do it or do not do it - you will regret both.” Soren Kierkegaard

 “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.” Ingrid Bergman

And then... another view:

Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. Oscar Wilde, The Picture of Dorian Gray (Barnes & Noble Classics Series) (Barnes & Noble Classics)