Quotes about Regret

All men are more concerned to recover what they lose than to acquire what they lack.

We would often be sorry if our wishes were gratified.

O foolish creatures that we are, for the sake of a little pleasure we have destroyed ourselves.

Someone put her out of her misery if she ever became impervious to taking a life, when squeezing the trigger stopped being a regret.

She'd kept too many secrets and abandoned too many people, and that wasn't even the worst of it.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

You will regret many things in life but you will never regret being too kind or too fair.

Most of us have two lives. The life we live, and the unlived life within us. Between the two stands Resistance.

We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons.

Overcome as much as you can—nay even more than you can—the sensitiveness of your mind and check the copious flow of your tears. Else your deep affection for your nephew may be construed by unbelievers as indicating despair of God. You must regretim not as dead but as absent. You must seem to be looking for him rather than have lost him.

God has no "if onlys." God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.

Our lives are also cluttered with a lot of "if onlys." "If only I had done this," or "if only that had not happened." But again, God has no "if onlys." God never makes a mistake; God has no regrets. "As for God, his way is perfect" (Psalm 18:30). We can trust God. He is trustworthy.