Quotes about regret

Your dad's same old story is tiring, until you would give everything to hear him tell it one more time.

Life can only be understood backwards; but it must be lived forwards.

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.

The good in life does not depend upon life’s length, but upon the use we make of it.

The only thing that we know is that we know nothing — and that is the highest flight of human wisdom.

A thing is not necessarily true because a man dies for it.

We are never as happy or as miserable as we imagine.

Do not regret what you have done.

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.

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.

The past is never dead. It’s not even past.

I saw my life branching out before me like the green fig tree in the story.

Life appears to me too short to be spent in nursing animosity or registering wrongs.

So often in life, things that you regard as an impediment turn out to be great, good fortune.

Grief turns out to be a place none of us know until we reach it.