Regret and Guilt

The greatest penalty of evildoing; namely, to grow into the likeness of bad men.

Once a woman has forgiven her man, she must not reheat his sins for breakfast.

our capacity to act would, as it were, be confined to one single deed from which we could never recover.

Mistakes are at the very base of human thought, embedded there, feeding the structure like root nodules. If we were not provided with the knack of being wrong, we could never get anything useful done.

You can spend the entire second half of your life recovering from the mistakes of the first half.

Beware of the man who does not return your blow: he neither forgives you nor allows you to forgive yourself.

The wiser mind mourns less for what Age takes away, than what it leaves behind.

We must all suffer one of two things: the pain of discipline or the pain of regret or disappointment.

My mistakes are my life.

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.

I have made it a rule of my 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.

Children begin by loving their parents; after a time they judge them; rarely, if ever, do they forgive them.

Experience is the name every one gives to their mistakes.

The follies which a man regrets most, in his life, are those which he didn’t commit when he had the opportunity.

How shall I lose the sin, yet keep the sense,

Four be the things I’d been better without:

If, of all words of tongue and pen,

No memory of having starred

And nothing to look backward to with pride,

My tongue swore, but my mind’s unsworn. Hippolytus lamenting his breaking of an oath

After such knowledge, what forgiveness?

But I do nothing upon my self, and yet I am mine own Executioner.

Wilt thou forgive that sin where I begun,

Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid.