Quotes about Regret

Sip the shame so you won't have to guzzle the regret." In other words, taste a little bit of the shame of letting it all rip before you find yourself drowning in gallons of unwanted regret.

It's interesting that the original phrase in the late 1500s was "God be with Ye." The contraction of that phrase was "Goodbwye" which eventually became "goodbye."….. I wonder, when Jesus watched the rich young ruler walk away, what was the look in His eyes? I wonder, when Peter denied Jesus and abandoned Him just before Jesus went to the cross, what was the goodbye like?

History is riddled with blood and sin.

I sit, and moan, Like one who once had wings.

There's a blush for won't, and a blush for shan't, And a blush for having done it: There's a blush for thought and a blush for naught, And a blush for just begun it.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

Letter home from college boy: "There are 370 boys here - I wish there were 369."

You're not to wallow, but if you don't process your regrets, then they remain emotional underground toxins.

Firm they might have stood, yet fell; remember, and fear to transgress.

So having said, he thus to Eve in few: Say Woman, what is this which thou hast done? To whom sad Eve with shame nigh overwhelm'd, Confessing soon, yet not before her Judge Bold or loquacious, thus abasht repli'd. The Serpent me beguil'd and I did eate.

Forth reaching to the fruit, she plucked, she ate: Earth felt the wound, and Nature from her seat Sighing through all her works gave signs of woe, That all was lost.

Was I to have never parted from thy side? As good have grown there still a lifeless rib. Paradise Lost, Book IX, l. 1154