Quotes about Regret

He had begun too late to subject himself to the persistent mortification of spirit and flesh which is a condition of the average business life...

He pulled the sash down and turned back. Catch my death! he echoed; and he felt like adding: But I've caught it already. I am dead--I've been dead for months and months.

Perhaps, if I hadn't been, once before—I mean, if I'd always been a prudent deliberate Ralston, it would have been kinder to Tina in the end." Dr. Lanskell sank his gouty bulk into the chair behind his desk, and beamed at her through ironic spectacles. "I hate in-the-end kindnesses: they're about as nourishing as the third day of cold mutton.

The tragedy of the woman's death, and of his own share in it, were as nothing in the disaster of his bright irreclaimableness.

Every step she took seemed in fact to carry her farther from the region where, once or twice, he and she had met for an illumined moment and the recognition of this fact, when its first pang had been surmounted, produced in him a sense of negative relief.

i\in view of God's sovereign control, God will accomplish his purposes in our lives even when we make decisions we later regret.

No one cares about their reputation or their bank account when they find themselves in the shadow of death.

The tragedy of life is what dies in the hearts and souls of people while they live.

I regret the immaturity with which I approached the problems and tasks of the ministry but I do not regret the years devoted to the parish.

As all our senses are the inlets of sin, so they are become the inlets of sorrow (99).

How would it make you feel if God showed you what you could have accomplished in life if you had just believed him a little bit more?

If there be any thing a man might well pray against, that thing is the responsive gratification of some of the devoutest prayers of his youth.