In history as in human life, regret does not bring back a lost moment and a thousand years will not recover something lost in a single hour.
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Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.
One can have many regrets in life, but they are temporary. There are lessons to learn from every mistake.
Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.
It took me less than half a lifetime to realize that regret is one of the few guaranteed certainties. Sooner or later everything is touched by it, despite our naive and senseless hope that just this time we will be spared its cold hand on our heart.
I don't really believe in regret. I think you can always learn from the past, but I wouldn't want a different life.
Regret doesn't budge things; it seems crazy that the force of all that human want can't amend a moment, can't even stir a pebble.
Forget regret, or life is yours to miss.
When we grow old, there can only be one regret - not to have given enough of ourselves.
We all have regrets, but the thing is to learn from life.
Sincere regret may be a faculty for paying attention to the future, for sensing a new tide where we missed a previous one, for experiencing timelessness with a grandchild where we neglected a boy of our own.
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