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A man is not old until regrets take the place of dreams.
* John Barrymore
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In looking back, I see nothing to regret and little to correct.
* John C. Calhoun
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It's the things I might have said that fester.
* Clemence Dane
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Regrets are the natural property of grey hairs.
* Charles Dickens
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Footfalls echo in the memory
Down the passage which we did not take
Towards the door we never opened
Into the rose-garden.
* T. S. Eliot
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Regrets and recriminations only hurt your soul.
* Armand Hammer
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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.
* Søren Kierkegaard
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Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.
* Mary McCarthy
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I have loved badly, loved the great
Too soon, withdrawn my words too late;
And eaten in an echoing hall
Alone and from a chipped plate
The words that I withdrew too late.
* Edna St. Vincent Millay
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Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
* Arthur Miller
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There is no man, however wise, who has not at some period of his youth said things, or lived in a way the consciousness of which is so unpleasant to him in later life that he would gladly, if he could, expunge it from his memory.
* Marcel Proust
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For of all sad words of tongue or pen,
The saddest are these: 'It might have been!'
* John Greenleaf Whittier
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Hindsight is always twenty-twenty.
* Billy Wilder
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