No Regrets

No Regrets

• I leave this life with no regrets. It was a wonderful life — full and complete with the great loves and great endeavors that make it worth living. — Charles Krauthammer

• My religion is to live—and die—without regret. — Milarepa

• Remorse is the poison of life. —Charlotte Bronte

• No, you never get any fun / Out of the things you haven’t done. — Ognen Nash

• A person is not old until regrets take the place of dreams. — John Barrymore

• Hell begins on the day when God grants us a clear vision of all that we might have achieved, of all the fits which we have wasted, of all that we might have done which we did not do. — Gian-Carlo Menotti

• The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone. — Harriet Beecher

• What might have been—these are but common words, / And yet they make the sum of life’s bewailings.  — Letitia Elizabeth Landon

• It’s not what you are; it’s what you don’t become that hurts.  — Oscar Lavant

• One’s real life is so often the life that one does not lead.  — Oscar Wilde

• It is not impossibilities which fill us with the deepest despair, but possibilities which we have failed to realize. — Robert Mallet

• Our repugnance to death increases in proportion to our consciousness of having lived in vain. — William Hazlitt

• People are not afraid of death per se, but of the incompleteness of their lives.   — L. M. Goodman

• To be a thousand days a ghost is not equal to being one day a human being. —Chinese Proverb