Sydney J. Harris Quotes

The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.

I think you always have regrets.

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

I wasted time writing films. I don't look back on those years as lost, but it wasn't what I should have been doing.

Regrets are idle; yet history is one long regret. Everything might have turned out so differently.

We all feel wistfulness or regret about roads not taken.

I don't want to be one of those could have, would have, should have kind of guys.

It's the things you don't do, not the things you do, you feel most sorry for.

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

I'm treading the backward path. Mostly, I just waste my time.

At 30 I thought my life was over. I thought I'd have made something of myself by then, that life would somehow have made the necessary arrangements - but actually I had nothing.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.

Youth is a period of missed opportunities.

Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the gifts which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do.

An emotion that lives with me is a sense of 'what might have been' had injuries not robbed me of my most lethal weapon - speed.

We do not ask the right questions when we are young, so we miss the important answers. Now it is too late to ask, too late for the illuminating answers, and the unanswered questions haunt us for a lifetime.

Many people die with their music still in them. Why is this so? Too often it is because they are always getting ready to live. Before they know it, time runs out.

On the plains of hesitation lie the blackened bones of countless millions who at the dawn of victory lay down to rest, and in resting died.

There's definitely still a lot of hurt from losing my guys or the fact that I got out and I felt like it wasn't my time yet.

You always feel when you look it straight in the eye that you could have put more into it, could have let yourself go and dug harder.

Can anything be sadder than work left unfinished? Yes, work never begun.

I believe that a dream un-followed turns into all kinds of bad things in the lives of those who don't pursue them.

I fantasize about going back to high school with the knowledge I have now. I would shine. I would have a good time, I would have a girlfriend. I think that's where a lot of my pain comes from. I think I never had any teenage years to go back to.

We would go back and maybe not say that thing to our dad that we said, or maybe be a little nicer to someone who we cared about and had a relationship with when we were young. You know, they're subtle things, but we carry those with us forever. And I think that regret and time travel are intrinsically linked to me.

Vocations which we wanted to pursue, but didn't, bleed, like colors, on the whole of our existence.