Quotes about Regret

When we are overtaken with a sin, we sometimes fail to analyze how we fell. This is to our great disadvantage. We repent of the sin, but we do not consider the temptation that was the cause of it.

Sweetie, the bluebird has flown. We're too young to sit around the rest of our lives waiting for it to fly back in the window. It won't. It can't fly backwards.' He was using his hands again in that disagreeable stagey way, and Ruth was angered by the flicker of conceit in his expression when he struck upon the image of the bluebird fying backwards - a piece of animation on the screen of his face.

Deathbed repentance is burning the candle of life in the service of the devil, and then blowing the smoke into the face of God.

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

I may be drunk, Miss, but in the morning I will be sober and you will still be ugly.

As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.

Too often they don't realize what they have until it's gone. ...they're too stubborn to say, 'Sorry, I was wrong' they hurt the ones closest to their hearts, and we let the most foolish things tear us apart

Never regret anything, because at one time it was exactly what you wanted.

Dr. Neal Roese makes a fascinating distinction between two types of regret: regrets of action and regrets of inaction.