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Quotes about Regret

The consequences of ignoring the Lord and His prophets are certain and often accompanied by great sorrow and regret.
— Joseph Wirthlin
Looking back you realize that a very special person passed briefly through your life and that person was you. It is not too late to become that person again.
— Robert Brault
All people have had ill luck, but Jairus's daughter and Lazarus had the worst.
— Mark Twain
But there are some things you can't do even if you desire them. There are some choices you can't take back. Words said that can't be unsaid
— Chris Fabry
There had been a connection long ago, but that had been severed. Something in me wanted to hold on, to roll back the clock and never let him go, but I had made my choice, as he had, and we had to live with our choices.
— Chris Fabry
The woman of my dreams. The woman of my nightmares. Everything good and bad about my life. The "I do" that "I didn't.
— Chris Fabry
The reason he kept going was that God got hold of his heart. And he did the same for me. I'm so ashamed of what happened back there. How we let our passions run. We hurt a lot of people. And we've lived with that. But
— Chris Fabry
Sad as it was that she did not know where her children were buried or what they looked like if alive, fact was she knew more about them than she knew about herself, having never had the map to discover what she was like. Could she sing? (Was it nice to hear when she did?) Was she pretty? Was she a good friend? Could she have been a loving mother? A faithful wife? Have I got a sister and does she favor me? If my mother knew me would she like me?
— Toni Morrison
I told you again that you were the reason Adam ate the apple and its core. That when he left Eden, he left a rich man. Not only did he have Eve, but he had the taste of the first apple in the world in his mouth for the rest of his life.
— Toni Morrison
I'll explain to her, even though I don't have to. Why I did it. How if I hadn't killed her she would have died and that is something I could not bear to happen to her.
— Toni Morrison
Her heavy knives of defense against misery, regret, gall and hurt, she placed one by one on a bank where dear water rushed on below.
— Toni Morrison
thank God I ain't never had one of them graveyard loves.
— Toni Morrison