Quotes about Regret
O sun, to tell thee how I hate thy beams that bring to my remembrance from what state I fell, how glorious once above thy sphere.
— John Milton
I am disappointed with myself. I am disappointed not so much with the particular things I have done as with the aspects of who I have become. I have a nagging sense that all is not as it should be.
— John Ortberg
Don't waste another day of your life.
— John Piper
Most of American life is driving somewhere and then driving back wondering why the hell you went.
— John Updike
All these years later, I recognize this as the way that winners often speak of those they have harmed beyond repair. Trying to find some way to live with what we have done, we find solace in the idea that their doom was their own doing.
— Barbara Brown Taylor
He who hesitates is a damned fool.
— Mae West
DON'T BE SO HARD ON YOURSELF. I can bring good even out of your mistakes. Your finite mind tends to look backward, longing to undo decisions you have come to regret. This is a waste of time and energy, leading only to frustration. Instead of floundering in the past, release your mistakes to Me. Look to Me in trust, anticipating that My infinite creativity can weave both good choices and bad into a lovely design. Because you are human, you will continue to make mistakes. Thinking that you
— Sarah Young
That is how you know you've left childhood behind-when you wish for time to go backward.
— Alice Hoffman
Of course I regret not having been able to spend time with my family.
— Aung San Suu Kyi
No time for better words, no time to unsay anything. -Til We Have Faces
— CS Lewis
Never, never waste a minute on regret. It's a waste of time.
— Harry S. Truman
I could give all to Time except--except What I myself have held.
— Robert Frost