“Regrets are the most useless form of guilt. They always arrive too late to do any good.”
Source: Tempting Danger
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Source: Galileo's Dream (2009), Ch. 20, p. 513–514
“Too often, feelings arrive too soon, waiting for thoughts that often come too late.”
Being Late http://www.poetrysoup.com/famous/poem/21366/Being_Late
From the poems written in English
Variant: One of the great secrets of life. Most people die of a sort of creeping common sense and discover too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
Source: The Picture of Dorian Gray
“Wars and temper tantrums are the makeshifts of ignorance; regrets are illuminations come too late.”
Source: The Hero With a Thousand Faces
“No accident ever comes late; it always arrives precisely on time.”
Source: Autobiography of Mark Twain, Vol. 2 (2013), p. 239