Quotes About Remorse

Too late, I thought. Too late for all the things I should have known. I had made so many mistakes that I could not find my way back through their tangle to the first one.

Exile might satisfy the anger of the living, but it did not appease the dead.

Rage and grief, thwarted desire, lust, self-pity: these are emotions gods know well. But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.

But guilt and shame, remorse, ambivalence, those are foreign countries to our kind, which must be learned stone by stone.

I could have stopped them," he said. The skin of his face was very pale; his voice was hoarse. "I was close enough. I could have saved her." I shook my head. "You could not have known." He buried his face in his hands and did not speak. I held him and whispered all the bits of broken comfort I could find.

As it turns out, I did kill pigs that night after all

I fear I have robbed them not only of their youth but their age as well.

Exile might satisfy the anger of the living but it did nothing to appease the dead.

had been "the worst thing" about this cold-blooded deed.

Satisfied, she calmly turned to Bull, who meekly knelt and sought her forgiveness

Lilly was not crazy. She left a serious suicide note. 'Sorry,' said the note. 'Just not big enough.

What worse awareness is there than to know there would have been a better outcome if you'd never done anything at all?

In Ruth's view, they looked 'like a couple' because they seemed to possess some terrible secret between them - they appeared stricken with remorse when they saw her. Only a novelist could ever imagine such nonsense. (In part, it was because of her perverse ability to imagine anything that in this instance Ruth failed to imagine the obvious)

sidelong fix'd her eye on Saturn's face: There saw she direst strife; the supreme God At war with all the frailty of grief, Of rage, of fear, anxiety, revenge, Remorse, spleen, hope, but most of all despair.

I am a violent man who has learned not to be violent and regrets his violence.

So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.

We often experience more regret over the part we have left, than pleasure over the part we have preferred.

Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance.

The awful feeling waking up the next day after a night of drinking and having to read those texts you sent during the night.

When a person is too proud to admit a mistake, they choose to live with the guilt in their hearts. They think that guilt is just a feeling and can not harm them. But in reality, as long as you have not humbled yourself and admitted your wrong, you will always feel trapped by what you did in the past. Its memory will haunt you every day of your life.

Understand that no matter how many times you say you're sorry it wont wash away all the pain and hurt you caused and the tears you made me cry.

It's not about what you did, it's about what you didn't do. You didn't apologize. You didn't love me. All you did was hurt. All you did was lie.

If one day you realize you made a mistake, remember you pushed me away and left me there to stay. If one day you want to say sorry for everything you did, you just forgot the promise that you said. If one day you realize I'm not longer there, remember you finally lost the only one who cared.

If only you could see the pain YOU caused me. If you could only for a moment pay attention.