Quotes About Regret

Every day brings a chance to live free of regret and with as much joy, fun, and laughter as you can stand.

You can't go home again

If someone has repented once of a sin, and again does the same sin, this is a sign that he has not been cleansed of the causes of the sin, wherefrom, as from a root, the shoots spring forth again.

Smoking means always having to say you're sorry.

Repentance is another name for aspiration.

Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.

Hindsight. It's like foresight without a future.

If one could recover the uncompromising spirit of one's youth, one's greatest indignation would be for what one has become.

I'm glad I did it, partly because it was worth it, but mostly because I shall never have to do it again.

All I can do is engage with complete sincerity. Then whatever happens, there is no regret.

If you're busy regretting the past, then a new future can't come in.

I always think that I would have become an actor if I hadn't been a soccer player.

I'm stopped. I'll never eat another burger.

To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.

Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn't catch up, it overtakes … blotting out the future.

Bravery is the solution to regret.

The worst thing, I fear, about being no longer young is that one is no longer young.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

Do we always grind through the present, doomed to throw a gold haze of fond retrospect over the past?

Everyone just wasting time because they have so much of it to waste, minutes slipping by on who's with who and did you hear.

You can't dwell on what might have been...and it's not fair to condemn him for something he hasn't done.

Life is too short to drink the house wine.

News conference in Chicago, where he apologized for the above statement, which was accepted by the Vatican. (11 August 1966)

If someone falls into any sin and is not sincerely grieved about it, it is easy for him to fall into the same thing again.