A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future.
~ Oliver Goldsmith - [Regret]

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 - [Regret]

Go to the effort. Invest the time. Write the letter. Make the apology. Take the trip. Purchase the gift. Do it. The seized opportunity renders joy. The neglected brings regret.
~ Max L. Lucado - [Regret]

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regretà if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.
~ Katharine Hepburn - [Regret]

I have no regrets because I know I did my best -- all I could do.
~ Midori Ito - [Regret]

It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.
~ Oscar Levant - [Regret]

It's the things I might have said that fester.
~ Clemence Dane - [Regret]

Let's not burden our remembrance with a heaviness that's gone.
~ William Shakespeare - [Regret]

Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in.
~ Katherine Mansfield - [Regret]

Maybe all one can do is hope to end up with the right regrets.
~ Arthur Miller - [Regret]