Quotes of Regret - somelinesforyou

“ Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings. ”

- Nicholas Rowe

“ Make it a rule of life never to regret and never to look back. Regret is an appalling waste of energy; you can't build on it; it's only good for wallowing in. ”

- Katherine Mansfield

“ I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid. ”

- Katharine Hepburn

“ Make the most of your regrets; never smother your sorrow, but tend and cherish it till it comes to have a separate and integral interest. To regret deeply is to live afresh. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ When sorrows come, they come not single spies, But in battalions. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Speak when you are angry and you will make the best speech you will ever regret. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Regrets are the natural property of gray hairs. ”

- Charles Dickens

“ I remember thinking, The bullets are working I think I felt a little regret that they were working. ”

- Mark David Chapman

“ REPENTANCE, n. The faithful attendant and follower of Punishment. It is usually manifest in a degree of reformation that is not inconsistent with continuity of sin. ”

- Ambrose Bierce

“ Accept everything about yourself - I mean everything, You are you and that is the beginning and the end - no apologies, no regrets. ”

- Henry Kissinger

“ Glory, built on selfish principles, is shame and guilt. ”

- William Cowper

“ I make no apologies for that - it was a joke. ”

- George Clooney

“ Sorrows are like thunderclouds, in the distance they look black, over our heads scarcely gray. ”

- Jean Paul Richter

“ Regret for the things we did can be tempered by time; it is regret for the things we did not do that is inconsolable. ”

- Sydney J. Harris

“ Regret for time wasted can become a power for good in the time that remains, if we will only stop the waste and the idle, useless regretting. ”

- Arthur Brisbane

“ We must all suffer from one of two pains: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret. The difference is discipline weighs ounces while regret weighs tons. ”

- Jim Rohn

“ For of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, "It might have been!". ”

- John Greenleaf Whittier

“ The only thing I regret about my past is the length of it. If I had to live my life again, I'd make the same mistakes, only sooner. ”

- Tallulah Bankhead

“ My one regret in life is that I am not someone else. ”

- Woody Allen

“ When one door closes, another opens; but we often look so long and so regretfully upon the closed door that we do not see the one which has opened for us. ”

- Alexander Graham Bell

“ Under your good correction, I have seen When, after execution, judgment hath Repented o'er his doom. ”

- William Shakespeare

“ Never do today what you can as well do tomorrow, because something may occur to make you regret your premature action. ”

- Aaron Burr

“ To regret deeply is to live afresh. ”

- Henry David Thoreau

“ Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt. ”

- Aristotle

“ Nowadays most people die of a sort of creeping common sense, and discover when it is too late that the only things one never regrets are one's mistakes. ”

- Oscar Wilde

“ A land of levity is a land of guilt. ”

- Edward Young

“ How guilt once harbour'd in the conscious breast, Intimidates the brave, degrades the great. ”

- Samuel Johnson

“ Regret for wasted time is more wasted time. ”

- Mason Cooley

“ Never regret yesterday. Life is in you today, and you make your tomorrow. ”

- L. Ron Hubbard

“ Forget regret, or life is yours to miss. ”

- Broadway musical ‘Rent’
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