Quotes about Regret

Only one marriage I regret. I remember after I got that marriage license I went across from the license bureau to a bar for a drink. The bartender said, 'What will you have, sir?' And I said, 'A glass of hemlock.'

If he could have reached it, he'd have kicked his own backside.

You propose marriage with the same breath you tell me you're ashamed of me.

expelled from the garden.

I did mind and it did matter, otherwise there wouldn't be anything to forgive at all

Sometimes, I feel like one who is on the sidelines, who has missed life itself.

I immediately regretted that last point because I have discovered that in discussions it never helps to take a morally superior tone to one's opponent.

I felt as if the words I had spoken that day had soiled my tongue and mouth.

A few can touch the magic string, and noisy fame is proud to win them: Alas for those that never sing, but die with all their music in them!

To get back to my youth I would do anything in the world, except take exercise, get up early, or be respectable

Every saint has a past, and every sinner has a future.

It's a grace to regret. Grace allows you to face your sin, to own it and not shift the blame. But it is also grace that forgives what has been exposed. Grace forces you to feel the pain of your regrets, but never asks you to pay for them, because the price has already been paid by Jesus.