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Quotes about regret
Words on regret — gathered from across the ages, set on the page.
Your dad's same old story is tiring, until you would give everything to hear him tell it one more time.— Anonymous
Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.— Søren Kierkegaard
I wished to live deliberately, to front only the essential facts of life, and not, when I came to die, discover that I had not lived.— Henry David Thoreau
The good in life does not depend upon life’s length, but upon the use we make of it.— Seneca
The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.— Leo Tolstoy
A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.— Oscar Wilde
We are never as happy or as miserable as we imagine.— François de La Rochefoucauld
Do not regret what you have done.— Miyamoto Musashi
Lay hold of today’s task, and you will not need to depend so much upon tomorrow’s. While we are postponing, life speeds by.— Seneca
Marry, and you will regret it. Do not marry, and you will also regret it. Marry or do not marry, you will regret it either way.— Søren Kierkegaard
The past is never dead. It’s not even past.— William Faulkner
I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.— Sylvia Plath