Quotes about Regret

I am sure I'd have made a better all-around man if I hadn't lost so much time just making a living.

Some people, they've had a lot of fun, even if it was dumb fun and a shitty body of work.

I guarantee you that after you die you will not say 'I spent too much time praying; I wish I had watched more TV instead.

Therefore if we lack the feeling of repentance but nevertheless want to repent; if we choose repentance with the will; we are then repenting, since repentance is that choice of the will.

There is nothing worse… no punishment greater than to have known God and no longer to know him.

We have all said things in anger in a moment that we don't mean.

I was too aggressive. Too angry.

The nightmare is you spend the rest of your life being funny at parties and then people say, 'Why didn't you do that when you were on television?'

And I've never met anybody who said that they were sorry that the Lord Jesus had entered their hearts.

The question is: Will you choose the pain of discipline or the pain of regret?

It's a lesson I'm trying to learn from him, this living squarely in the present. I am a planner and a worrier. I torment myself by mentally replaying my past mistakes, wishing I'd been smarter, wishing I'd been stronger, wishing I'd made different choices. I live too often in the realm of what if. I also expend time and mental energy continually trying to anticipate what sort of crouching tiger might be hiding around the next corner.

I understood that feeling of regret, the sense that there was a moment when the paths divided and you chose one over the other.