Winifred Holtby Quotes

Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

Regret of neglected opportunity is the worst hell that a living soul can inhabit.

I have known many who could not when they would, for they had not done it when they could.

The follies which a man regrets the most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.

When you get older, it's not about what you did that you regret, it's what you didn't do.

I think you regret the things that you don't do more than the things you do.

You tend to regret the things you haven't done.

I could have joined West Brom or Brighton. What would have happened had I joined one of them? I do not want to think about it. I do not think about it.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

All The Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas Layin' In The Sun, Talkin' 'Bout The Things They Woulda-Coulda-Shoulda Done... But All Those Woulda-Coulda-Shouldas All Ran Away And Hid From One Little Did.

If I had done this, if I had said that, in the end you are always more tormented by what you didn't do than what you did, actions already performed can always be rationalized in time, the neglected deed might have changed the world.

The voice says, maybe you don't go to hell for the things you do. Maybe you go to hell for the things you don't do. The things you don't finish.

The only things I regret, and the only things I'll ever regret are things I didn't do. In the end, that's what we mourn. The paths we didn't take. The people we didn't touch.

I hoped we never had to realize all the opportunities we missed in this life.

Look in my face; my name is Might-have-been; I am also call'd No-more, Too-late, Farewell.

You always think "woulda, coulda, shoulda." I wish that I had prosecuted Tot Mom, I wish I'd prosecuted OJ, and I wish I had prosecuted the JonBenet Ramsey case.

The past reflects eternally between two mirrors - the bright mirror of words and deeds, and the dark one, full of things we didn't do or say.

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

We've all got a black book of missed opportunities.

Sometimes we question things that we have done in our lives but how many times do we question what we haven't done in someone else's.

I felt like if I wasn't around, maybe my shot would be gone.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Some of the regrets I've had about my own career are things I have not done that I should have done. More than some of the things that I've done.