Quotes About Regret

It's not a problem that we're sinners; it's a problem that we aren't ashamed of our sin and don't seek forgiveness.

To err is human, to forgive divine. (Acheron) I don't ask for your forgiveness. I don't deserve it. I only ask for a chance to show you now that I'm not the fool I was once. (Styxx)

Forgiveness has its comforts, but it can never give you back what you've lost.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

the unforgivable was usually the most easily forgiven.

Ricky had taught me a few cuss words. I usually practiced them in the woods by the river, then prayed for forgiveness as soon as I was done.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

Oh, miss Haversham said I, there have been sore mistakes and my life has been a blind and thankless one, and I want forgiveness and direction far too much to be bitter with you.

There are things that can be fixed with an apology and things that can't.

Now here's a good one:you're lying on your deathbed.You have one hour to live.Who is it, exactly, you have neededall these years to forgive?

Over time, we commit acts with intentions, either good or bad, that require forgiveness.

Those who can't forget are worse off than those who can't remember.

Sometimes the best deals are the ones you don't make.

Time misspent in youth is sometimes all the freedom one ever has.

Those who have known freedom and then lost it, have never known it again

...freedom only gives you something to be sorry for.

I have always done my duty. I am ready to die. My only regret is for the friends I leave behind me.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Oh Dear! How unfortunate I am not to have anyone to weep with!

I burned my candle at both ends, And now have neither foes nor friends.

I was too dumb to know Opie was going to grow up to be a great Director, if so, boy, I would certainly have become his best friend.

This is what I miss, Cordelia: not something that's gone, but something that will never happen. Two old women giggling over their tea.

How many a year has passed and gone and many gamble has been lost and won, and many a road taken by a friend and each one I've never seen again.

I regret the ending of our friendship and hope one day before we die, we'll make peace with each other . . . No rush.