Quotes About Regret

I have never regretted Paradise Lost since I discovered that it contained no eggs-and-bacon.

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

Memories are like mulligatawny soup in a cheap restaurant. It is wiser not to stir them.

Sorry to hear about your Dad." He shrugged. "He was seventy, and we always told him fast food would kill him." "Heart attack?" "He was hit by a Pizza Express truck.

I was always wondering why the first ten minutes of eating fast food is heavenly and then after those ten minutes you start feeling like s**t?

How unhappy is he who cannot forgive himself.

We say of some things that they can't be forgiven, or that we will never forgive ourselves. But we do-we do it all the time.

Don't let the sun go down on me.

Nobody will be able to forgive me but myself.

The burden of regret can weigh us down heavily on our spiritual journey. The best way to release regret is to forgive ourselves.

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

I can forgive you for leaving, but not for coming back.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

An intuitive grasp of your character is formed by exploring scenes of profound emotional import-moments of overwhelming shame, joy, fear, pride, regret, forgiveness.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

What if this cursed hand Were thicker than itself with brother's blood Is there not rain enough in the sweet heaves To wash it white as snow?

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

There is only one thing harder in this world than forgiving. It's to ask forgiveness armed only with, 'I'm sorry'.

NVC self-forgiveness: connecting with the need we were trying to meet when we took the action that we now regret.

Few love what they may have.

Repentance may be old-fashioned, but it is not outdated so long as there is sin.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

But if you seek forgiveness, doesn't that automatically mean you cannot be a monster? By definition, doesn't that desperation make you human again?