Quotes about Regret
Sin carries in it its own misery.
— John Piper
We're all sinners, every one of us. We've all done things we wish we hadn't.
— Jerry Falwell, Jr.
You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you have never had the courage to commit.
— Oscar Wilde
The loss of young first love is so painful that it borders on the ludicrous.
— Maya Angelou
Love is hurt with jar and fret; Love is made a vague regret.
— Alfred Lord Tennyson
Boldness in the course of a noble fight is worth the risk...If you stand on truth, you'll only regret your timidity later, but you'll never regret being bold.
— Charles Swindoll
The cigarettes you light one after another won't help you forget her.
— Frank Sinatra
I've decided that if I had my life to live over again, I would not only climb more mountains, swim more rivers, and watch more sunsets; I wouldn't only jettison my hot water bottle, raincoat, umbrella, parachute, and raft; I would not only go barefoot earlier in the spring and stay out later in the fall; but I would devote not one more minute to monitoring my spiritual growth. No, not one.
— Brennan Manning
I have always been regretting that I was not as wise as the day I was born.
— Henry David Thoreau
No man ever followed his genius till it misled him. Though the result were bodily weakness, yet perhaps no one can say that the consequences were to be regretted, for these were a life in conformity to higher principles.
— Henry David Thoreau
It is a fool's life, as they will find when they get to the end of it, if not before.
— Henry David Thoreau
Some of the most miserable people we have known were those who received God's call to full-time Christian service but spent a lifetime rejecting it.
— Henry Blackaby