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Quotes About Remorse

...hot pink with a star done in rainbow rhinestones on the front. It was god-awful. I bought it.
~ Richelle Mead
Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell
~ Emily Dickinson
When I was a baby, my mama told me son, always be a good boy, don't ever play with guns. But I shot a man in Reno.
~ Johnny Cash
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse?
~ Ivan Turgenev
I'm not a bad guy... I'm just good guy that runs over women with his car.
~ Michael Scott
Beer. It always seems like such a good idea at the time, doesn't it? What's worse is beer seems like an even better idea after you've had some beer.
~ Steven Hall
Guilt is always a good thing. If I kick you in the groin right now and don't feel guilty about it there's something wrong with me. Something's wrong with my conscience.
~ Lino Rulli
Our faults afflict us more than our good deeds console. Pain is ever uppermost in the conscience as in the heart.
~ Sophie Swetchine
It's not a good feeling--knowing that you profoundly deserve the title of monster. It's better to be kind than to feel guilty.
~ Stephenie Meyer
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.
~ Daniel Day-Lewis
In its history, Europe has committed so many massacres and horrors that it should bow its own head in shame.
~ Desmond Tutu
I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.
~ Jack Abramoff
A bad conscience makes a very good ghost.
~ Hope Mirrlees, Lud-in-the-Mist
Saying, 'I'm sorry' is the same as saying, 'I apologize.' Except at a funeral.
~ Demetri Martin
Reggie, you wrapped your sports car around a telephone pole after drinking a bar." "Yeah... But I was wearing my seatbelt.
~ Daniel Younger, Delirious
I'm thinking skywriting. 'Sorry I was an asshat. Please forgive my stupid butt.
~ Erin Watt, Tarnished Crown
Sorry. Didn't mean to step on any dead toes.
~ J.L. McCoy, Sins of the Father
It's a terrible thing, what we did, " said Francis abruptly. "I mean, this man was not Voltaire we killed. But still. It's a shame. I feel bad about it.
~ Donna Tartt
I have often regretted my speech, never my silence.
~ Xenocrates
Ah, how steadily do they who are guilty shrink from reproof!
~ Amelia Bloomer
A person without regrets is a nincompoop.
~ Mia Farrow
Guilt starts as a feeling of failure.
~ Frank Herbert
To hurt someone you know will forgive you is the unkindiest thing of all.
~ Robert Breault
Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.
~ Edward Gorey