Quotes about Regret
I picked up the rose-colored sachet pillow on her bed. Hugging it against my flat chest, I breathed in its sweet fragrance. "I was very sassy on the phone. I'm sorry, Mom.
— Beverly Lewis
I feel sorry for James Blunt, he has to wake up every morning and think 'Oh my God, I'm James Blunt, what have I done?'
— Bill Bailey
If a man had more than one life, I think a little hanging would not hurt this one; but after he is once dead, we cannot bring him back, no matter how sorry we may be; so the boy shall be pardoned.
— Abraham Lincoln
She was overwhelmed with shame that she had so quickly acted like her old name and nature, which she had hoped was beginning to be changed already.
— Hannah Hurnard
I will never forgive Joe for that awful operation he had performed on Rosemary. It is the only thing I have ever felt bitter toward him about.
— Rose Kennedy
So glistered the dire Snake , and into fraud Led Eve, our credulous mother, to the Tree Of Prohibition, root of all our woe.
— John Milton
Regret not that which is past; and trust not to thine own righteousness.
— St. Anthony of Padua
Of love that never found his earthly close, What sequel? Streaming eyes and breaking hearts; Or all the same as if he had not been?
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
May we so love as never to have occasion to repent of our love!
— Henry David Thoreau
Too late came I to love you, O Beauty both so ancient and so new! Too late came I to love you - and behold you were with me all the time . . .
— St. Augustine
And when we love our sin then we are damned indeed.
— Graham Greene
That's what guilt is: a healthy regret for telling God one thing and doing another.
— Max Lucado