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Quotes About Regret

The sinning is the best part of repentance.
~ Arabic proverb
Apology is only egotism wrong side out.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Apologize, v: to lay the foundation for a future offence.
~ Ambrose Bierce
Apology - a desperate habit, and one that is rarely cured.
~ Oliver Wendell Holmes
Repentance is for little children.
~ Adolf Eichmann
Repentance is but want of power to sin.
~ John Dryden
Live as you will wish to have lived when you are dying.
~ Christian Furchtegott Gellert
The follies which a man regrets most in his life are those which he didn't commit when he had the opportunity.
~ Helen Rowland
There is no memory with less satisfaction than the memory of some temptation we resisted.
~ James Branch Cabell
The only things one never regrets are one's mistakes.
~ Oscar Wilde
The only things you regret are the things you don't do.
~ Michael Curtiz
For of all sad words of tongues or pen the saddest are these: It might have been.
~ John Greenleaf Whittier
When people say: she's got everything, I've only one answer: I haven't had tomorrow.
~ Elizabeth Taylor
Proud people breed sad sorrows for themselves.
~ Emily Bronte
Lack of discipline leads to frustration and self-loathing.
~ Marie Chapian
The greatest griefs are those we cause ourselves.
~ Sophocles
What fate can be worse than to know we have no one but ourselves to blame for our misfortunes!
~ Sophocles
I regret often that I have spoken; never that I have been silent.
~ Syrus
O sin, what hast thou done to this fair earth!
~ R. H. Dana
But where are the snows of yesteryear?
~ Francois Villon
More in sorrow than in anger.
~ William Shakespeare
Some aspects of success seem rather silly as death approaches.
~ Donald A. Miller
I have a hundred times wished that one could resign life as an officer resigns a commission.
~ Robert Burns
There is no refuge from confession but suicide; and suicide is confession.
~ Daniel Webster