Quotes About Remorse

It's a source of great sadness to me that my father died without having seen me do anything worthwhile. He was constantly having to make excuses for me.

And the most common harm was bullying. Even decades later, hundreds of respondents deeply regretted mistreating their peers.

THE FIVE REGRETTED SINS Deceit. Infidelity. Theft. Betrayal. Sacrilege.

A fifty-year-old woman in Arkansas said: I had an abortion at age twenty. That is the biggest regret of my life. My second-biggest regret is that I had another one at age twenty-five.

These regrets were partly about harm, but they were bigger than that: a belief that the actions amounted to a degradation of the very sanctity of life.

A fifty-eight-year-old woman in Puerto Rico regretted: Having an abortion. Having to say I'm sorry when I meet him/her in Heaven.

Regret is the quintessential upward counterfactual—the ultimate If Only.

Take back the smile and the night, take it all back, I wish I could.

The parental response, then, undermines both of the primary goals of discipline—changing behavior and building the brain—because it sidesteps an opportunity for the child to think about her own behavior and even feel some healthy guilt or remorse.

There is no way you are going to be forgiven for blowing up a village and killing a bunch of people.

Apart from the most obvious cases, like the Oriental Bittersweet vine, escaped from private gardens and smothering the mountains one acre at a time, the most painful proof of man's destruction is not what you can see right in front of you; it's what you will never see again.

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness.

right. She didn't expect him to ever forgive her, wasn't certain she'd ever forgive herself. At the time, she'd had no choice, no options—or at least not any that she could see. In hindsight—

Condemnation comes from guilt. Conviction is born out of grace. Condemnation leads you to conceal your sin. Conviction urges you to confess it. Condemnation results in remorse (feeling bad about what you did). Conviction calls you to repentance (turning to go the other way). Condemnation prompts you to rededicate. Conviction demands full surrender. Condemnation is a path to future failure. Conviction is a highway to real change.

Maybe when I'm dead, I'll be forgiven, but I'm afraid I'll also be forgotten.

I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I never feel wither shame, remorse or fear, I sometimes wish it was not necessary as I don't like the trouble, but as for any moral sense of principle, I haven't a particle. Many people are like me as actions prove, but they are not so frank in owning it and insist on keeping up the humbug of virtue.

What haunted people even, perhaps especially, on their deathbed? What chased them, tortured them and brought some of them to their knees? And [he] thought he had the answer. Regret. Regret for things said, things done, and things not done. Regret for the people they might have been. And failed to be.

Old sins have long shadows," said Gamache. "And this is an old sin.

Hell is the truth seen too late,

Hell is the truth seen too late," said Reine-Marie as she poured out more coffee. "Thomas Hobbes.

Conscience. Imagine being pursued by your own conscience….A mountain of conscience. Throwing a lengthening shadow. Growing. Darkening.