2,008 Quotes About Regret

If we choose the right, we will find happiness-in time. If we choose evil, there comes sorrow and regret-in time. Those effects are sure. Yet they are often delayed for a purpose. If the blessings were immediate, choosing the right would not build faith. And since sorrow is also sometimes greatly delayed, it takes faith to feel the need to seek forgiveness for sin early rather than after we feel its sorrowful and painful effects.

Regrets over the past should chasten the future.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in "sadness", "joy", or "regret". Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that is oversimplifies feeling. I'd like to have at my disposal complicated hybrid emotions.

My wife who is non-Jewish regrets it all the time that I can say these terrible things about fellow Jews and she can't

I love forms beyond my own, and regret the borders between us

He despised his body for its boring hungers, reflex anger; its petty, obliterating rage. But now he'd become detached. He regarded his body with a tender regret. It was the thing his spirit had to haul.

I regret nothing, says arrogance; I will regret nothing, says inexperience.

Regret is the most tiresome of companions.