Quotes About Remorse

Wendy is still dead. I hadn't understood before: it really doesn't bring them back. Somehow, you think, despite what you know, it will be a trade. Find the person who did the wrong thing and they will suffer instead of the one who was killed. Instead, that person just suffers too.

Atormentaste-me com a tua insistência, transtornaste-me com o teu ardor, encantaste-me com a tua delicadeza, confiei nas tuas juras, seduziu-me a minha inclinação violenta, e o que se seguiu a tão agradável e feliz começo não são mais que suspiros, lágrimas e uma tristíssima morte que julgo sem remédio. É certo que tive, ao amar-te, alegrias surpreendentes, mas custam-me agora os maiores tormentos: são extremas todas as emoções que me causas.

I inwardly did nothing.O Iscariot-like crime!

I lurched away from the table after a few hours feeling like Elvis in Vegas - fat, drugged, and completely out of it.

It may be infinitely worse to refuse to forgive than to murder, because

True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator.

He who repents of having sinned is almost innocent.

I'm sorry.' The two most inadequate words in the English language.

From the body of one guilty deed a thousand ghostly fears and haunting thoughts proceed.

Consequences don't just go away. They aren't suddenly dissolved just because forgiveness has been desired or given.

But you know all about that, being sorry and having no words to say something when you know you should but you just can't.

That you were once unkind befriends me now, And for that sorrow, which I then did feel, Needs must I under my transgression bow, Unless my nerves were brass or hammered steel.

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without a remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

A clear conscience is usually the sign of a bad memory.

Cheating is like eating fast food. You do it, you enjoy it, and then you end up feeling like sh...

If you're going to do something tonight that you'll be sorry for tomorrow morning, sleep late.

A Clear Conscience Is Usually the Sign of a Bad Memory. And

she needed someone to hold her, but she couldn't bring herself to ask her husband, not after what she had done to him.

In the end we regret not what we have done but what we have not done.

Both partners share a quality of the other person that they admire. Admiration resolves disappointment. Both partners express appreciation for something that the other one did. Gratitude resolves resentment. Both partners apologize, without excuses, for something they did to hurt the other person. Remorse resolves hurt.

I failed you," Pino choked. "Christmas Eve, you were there to stand by me, come what may. And I wasn't there for you. I . . . I don't know why. I can't even explain it to myself. I wish I'd stood against the wall with you, Anna.