Quotes about Regret

When death, the great Reconciler, has come, it is never our tenderness that we repent of, but our severity.

No, said Godfrey, with a keen decisiveness of tone, in contrast with his usually careless and unemphatic speech—there's debts we can't pay like money debts, by paying extra for the years that have slipped by. While I've been putting off and putting off, the trees have been growing—it's too late now. Marner was in the right in what he said about a man's turning away a blessing from his door: it falls to somebody else.

Who with repentance is not satisfied, is not of heaven, nor earth.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

I have a hyperbolical tongue: it catches fire as it goes. I dare say I shall have to retract.

Maggie actually forgot that she had any special cause of sadness this morning, as she stood on a chair to look at a remarkable series of pictures representing the Prodigal Son in the costume of Sir Charles Grandison, except that, as might have been expected from his defective moral character, he had not, like that accomplished hero, the taste and strength of mind to dispense with a wig.

I cannot bear to think that any one should die and leave no love behind

I prayed often for deliverance from the pain caused by my decision to abort my baby. I suffered the threat of cervical and breast cancer and experienced the pain of empty arms after the baby was gone. And truly, for me, and countless abortive mothers, nothing on earth can fully restore what has been lost; only Jesus can.

Too late I loved you, O Beauty ever ancient and ever new! Too late I loved you! And, behold, you were within me, and I out of myself, and there I searched for you.

It is a most mortifying reflection for a man to consider what he has done, compared to what he might have done.

When you kill time, remember that it has no resurrection.

I think that I failed by not studying more, and praying more, and spending more time with my family.