Quotes About Remorse

No gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.

The bird looked much smaller dead than alive. Jody felt a little mean pain in his stomach, so he took out his pocketknife and cut off the bird's head. Then he disemboweled it, and took off its wings; and finally he threw all the pieces into the brush. He didn't care about the bird, or its life, but he knew what older people would say if they had seen him kill it; he was ashamed because of their potential opinion.

One night i rode home - it was a confession - and i came staggering across the yard and i fell into the rosebush and crawled up the stairs on my hands and knees and i was sick on the floor beside my bed. In the morning I tried to tell him I was sorry, and do you know what he said? 'Why, Tom, you were just jolly'. 'Jolly,' if I did it. A drunken man didn't crawl home. Just Jolly

Your sons have no names." Adam replied, "Their mother left them motherless." "And you have left them fatherless. Can't you feel the cold at night of a lone child? What warm is there, what bird song, what possible morning can be good? Don't you remember, Adam, how it was, even a little?" "I didn't do it," Adam said. "Have you undone it? Your boys have no names.

Can you hear me, Father? Can you understand me?" The eyes did not change or move. "I did it," Cal cried. "I'm responsible for Aron's death and for your sickness. I took him to Kate's. I showed him his mother. That's why he went away. I don't want to do bad things—but I do them.

When you know a friend is there you do not go to see him. Then he's gone and you blast your conscience to shreds that you did not see him.

There is no explaining a series of misfortunes like that. Every man blames himself. People in their black minds remember sins committed secretly and wonder whether they have caused the evil sequence

What I think was hardest for me to realize was that he had tried each time to stop himself. He had killed animals, taking lesser lives to keep from killing a child

In the cafe bathroom drinking free tap water Thinking; "Damn, I should've been a better father to my daughter"

I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear.

Fear naturally quickens the flight of guilt.

But Germany will always suffer, I fear, from the intensely dramatic character of the crimes of the Third Reich.

We've all done things in our lives that we have regretted. Sometimes it is an action we have taken, or something we have said. Other times it is our lack of taking an action. That action would have made all the difference in our lives. We suffer the consequences.

Life is like a rope he who gives it strong knots, climbs higher towards the success and he who takes it in fun, slips and receives a permanent remorse.

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.'

The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have, and should have.

Too often we don't realize what we have until its gone, too often we wait too long to say I'm sorry, I was wrong.

I've learned... that you can do something in an instant that will give you heartache for life.

I'm so sorry for not being there for you.. When you needed someone, the most. At your last time, your breathed.

I feel terrible. I'm not proud of what I did. You deserve better.

Hardly ever do we hear anything that does not make us regret something that we have said

Uno de nuestros pecados cardinales son las cosas que casi hacemos, las palabras que casi decimos, el amor que casi damos. ¿Por qué esperamos hasta que es demasiado tarde?

down too much beef jerky. What he'd really been

It was always too late to retract, to try and retrieve what one had done.