CURATED COLLECTION

Living Without Regret

The regrets at the end of life are almost never about the risks taken — they're about the ones avoided.

39 quotes found

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To fear love is to fear life, and those who fear life are already three parts dead.

—Bertrand RussellPhilosopher, Mathematician & Intellectual

Early Modern ERA • Western Europe

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Your time is limited, don't waste it living someone else's life.

—Steve JobsEntrepreneur & Inventor

Contemporary ERA • North America

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There was one of two things I had a right to, liberty or death; if I could not have one, I would have the other.

—Harriet TubmanAbolitionist & Activist

Industrial Age ERA • North America

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To be deprived of memory is to be deprived of life.

—Hisham MatarNovelist

Digital Age ERA • MENA

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Life and death are of supreme importance. Time passes swiftly. Awaken, awaken!

—Eihei DogenScholar & Thinker

Medieval ERA • East Asia

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It is not death that a man should fear, but never beginning to live.

—Marcus AureliusEmperor & Philosopher

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Forget death; seek life. Be happy, enjoy yourself, dance and play.

—Sin-leqi-unninniScholar

Ancient World ERA • MENA

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Seize the day, put no trust in tomorrow.

—HoraceLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Tell me, what is it you plan to do with your one wild and precious life?

—Mary OliverPoet

Late Modern ERA • North America

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It is not that we have a short time to live, but that we waste a great deal of it.

—SenecaPhilosopher, Statesman & Playwright

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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Cada 'tick‑tock' es un segundo de vida que pasa, huye, y no se repite.

—Frida KahloPainter

Early Modern ERA • Latin America

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The past never dies. It just sits in wait.

—Esi EdugyanNovelist

Digital Age ERA • North America

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The past doesn't just disappear. It leaves traces.

—Claudia RankinePoet & Essayist

Digital Age ERA • Caribbean

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Poetry is life asking to be understood before it disappears.

—Ferreira GullarPoet & Critic

Post-War ERA • Latin America

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These are the times that try men's souls.

—Thomas PaineActivist, Philosopher & Revolutionary

Enlightenment ERA • North America

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The days of youth are fleeting; seize them before they depart.

—Safi al-Din al-HilliPoet

Medieval ERA • MENA

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Memory is a monster that devours the present.

—Rosa MonteroJournalist & Novelist

Digital Age ERA • Southern Europe

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In Africa, when an elder dies, a library burns.

—Amadou Hampâté BâWriter, Historian & Diplomat

Post-War ERA • West Africa

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Seize the day, trusting as little as possible in tomorrow.

—HoraceLyric Poet

Ancient World ERA • Southern Europe

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One day you will wake up and there won't be any more time to do the things you've always wanted.

—Paulo CoelhoNovelist

Late Modern ERA • Latin America

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