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Regret Quotes by Famous Authors
1.
“Nothing is worse and more hurtful than a happiness that comes too late. It can give no pleasure, yet it deprives you of that most precious of rights – the right to swear and curse at your fate!”
Ivan Turgenev
2.
“I had no first love,′ he said at last; ‘I began with the second.”
Ivan Turgenev
3.
“I should not wish ever to have it repeated; but I should consider myself unhappy if I had never experienced it.”
Ivan Turgenev
4.
“Sentimental outbreaks are like liquorice; when first you suck it, it’s not bad, but afterwards it leaves a very nasty taste in the mouth.”
Ivan Turgenev
5.
“Woe to the heart that has not loved in youth!”
Ivan Turgenev
6.
“I have a roommate, and I signed a year lease. I screwed up! That’s like I wrote a joke that didn’t work, but now I have to tell it for a year.”
Mitch Hedberg
7.
“We are nothing; less than nothing, and dreams. We are only what might have been.”
Charles Lamb
8.
“Our desires, once realized, haunt us again less readily.”
Margaret Fuller
9.
“I didn't want to be selling insurance at 40, wondering what would it have been like to do stand-up.”
Steven Wright
10.
“When young, we will experience short-term pain. Because we are learning new things, forming new relationships, discovering a new self, facing your fears. If we avoid this short-term pain it converts into long-term regret.”
Ankur Warikoo
11.
“A year from now, you will never be sure of the results. But you can certainly be sure of regret, if you don’t start today.”
Ankur Warikoo
12.
“A year from now, you will wish you had started today. Start today.”
Ankur Warikoo
13.
“A year from now you will wish you had unfollowed emotionally draining people. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘no’ more often. A year from now you will wish you had said ‘yes’ to yourself more often. A year from now, you will never be sure of the results.”
Ankur Warikoo
14.
“Time goes away and leaves us with only one of these two things: RESULT or REGRET”
Ankur Warikoo
15.
“Safe is better than sorry. Nope. Risk is better than regret.”
Ankur Warikoo
16.
“The last day you have on earth, the person you became will meet the person you could have become. Definition of hell.”
Ankur Warikoo
17.
“Disappointment is temporary. Regret is permanent.”
Ankur Warikoo
18.
“We will never be able to answer "what if?" We will only regret it!”
Ankur Warikoo
19.
“The decision that will hurt you the most is not making one, while waiting to take the right one!”
Ankur Warikoo
20.
“The distance between ‘I could have’ and ‘I have’ is regret.”
Ankur Warikoo
21.
“I wish I had known when I was in the White House what I know now about the Third World.”
Jimmy Carter
22.
“We feel of the great world that it is simply there, something for the lucky ones among us to explore, and then only at the edges. It never occurs to us that we might make some contribution to it ourselves. And that is why we miss everything.”
V.S. Naipaul
23.
“And so my satisfactions had only been brothel satisfactions, which hadn’t been satisfactions at all.”
V.S. Naipaul
24.
“Anger begins with folly, and ends with repentance.”
Pythagoras
25.
“Anger begins in folly, and ends in repentance.”
Pythagoras
26.
“Our sins are more easily remembered than our good deeds.”
Democritus
27.
“Oh, what a world full of pain we create, for a little taste upon the tongue.”
Plutarch
28.
“Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.”
Plutarch
29.
“A remorseful change of mind renders even a noble action base, whereas the determination which is grounded on knowledge and reason cannot change even if its actions fail.”
Plutarch
30.
“It is easy to utter what has been kept silent, but impossible to recall what has been uttered.”
Plutarch
31.
“This happens to me: I have this great idea and then I make the mistake of telling someone else.”
Scott Adams
32.
“I’m not a very nostalgic person. I don’t really look at the past and summon up regrets, or self-congratulations, it just is not a mechanism that operates very strongly in me. So I neither have regrets nor occasions for self-congratulations.”
Leonard Cohen
33.
“My sense of proprietorship has been so weak that actually I didn’t pay attention and I lost the copyrights on a lot of the songs.”
Leonard Cohen
34.
“I swear by this song and by all that I have done wrong, I will make it all up to thee.”
Leonard Cohen
35.
“The thing that crushed me was that I had never learned to dance.”
Thomas Merton
36.
“I made my fair share of mistakes.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
37.
“I had this child, and it destroyed my family.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
38.
“I hurt so many people.”
Arnold Schwarzenegger
39.
“I would like to be a free artist and nothing else, and I regret God has not given me the strength to be one.”
Anton Chekhov
40.
“Those who come a hundred or two hundred years after us will despise us for having lived our lives so stupidly and tastelessly. Perhaps they’ll find a means to be happy.”
Anton Chekhov
41.
“The bullet is followed by the silence of the grave, but a wasted youth is followed by years of grief and agonising memories.”
Anton Chekhov
42.
“The chance you give the wrong guy who is run across with you at the right time, unless you don’t give a chance the right guy who is run across with you at the wrong time, only you will always be upset.”
Anton Chekhov
43.
“What we have, we do not treasure, and what’s more we do not even love it.”
Anton Chekhov
44.
“Life has gone by as if I never lived.”
Anton Chekhov
45.
“Forgiven? No. I am a bad, low woman; I despise myself and don’t attempt to justify myself. It’s not my husband but myself I have deceived. And not only just now; I have been deceiving myself for a long time.”
Anton Chekhov
46.
“My life has been a failure. I am clever and brave and strong. If I had lived a normal life I might have become another Schopenhauer or Dostoieffski. I am losing my head!”
Anton Chekhov
47.
“The Russian loves recalling life, but he does not love living.”
Anton Chekhov
48.
“Butterfly land on a human just once in life; if you miss that opportunity, you have no another chance. Because that butterfly will be dead the next day.”
Anton Chekhov
49.
“One must never lose time in vainly regretting the past or in complaining about the changes which cause us discomfort, for change is the very essence of life.”
Anton Chekhov
50.
“I am dying. I haven’t drunk champagne for a long time.”
Anton Chekhov
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