Quotes About Remorse

I knew that I had turned my world back to cinders, sunk my lovely ship with my own stupid, wicked hands.

Feeling one ought to apologize is not quite the same thing as saying 'I am sorry' " -Penelope

Cassawoof no teeth, no bite, sorry, sorry, sorry.

The one thing that troubles me is the ringing; it persists in my ear day and night, like the tolling of a distant temple bell, warning man of the folly of the bomb…. —

Most days I wish I never met you. Because then I could sleep at night. I wouldn't have to walk around with the knowledge that someone like you was out there. And I wouldn't have to watch you throw it all away.

I have learned that however strong the craving gets the guilt afterwards will be stronger.

Nora was only able to think of herself in terms of the things she wasn't. The things she hadn't been able to become. And there really were quite a lot of things she hadn't become. The regrets which were on permanent repeat in her mind.

The power of all the regrets simultaneously emanating from the book was becoming agony. The weight of guilt and remorse and sorrow too strong. She leaned back on her elbows, dropped the heavy book and squeezed her eyes shut. She could hardly breathe, as if invisible hands were around her neck.

Dear Whoever, I had all the chances to make something of my life, and I blew every one of them. Through my own carelessness and misfortune, the world has retreated from me, and so now it makes perfect sense that I should retreat from the world. If I felt it was possible to stay, I would. But I don't. And so I can't. I make life worse for people. I have nothing to give. I'm sorry.

Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given situation.

Folk who cannot say sorry have no ethics.

As time will not wear out the guilt of sin, so it will not blot out the records of conscience;

People are ruined, not so much by doing what is amiss, as by doing it and not repenting of it, doing it and standing to it.

Many mourn for their sins that do not truly repent of them, weep bitterly for them, and yet continue in love and league with them.

All men and women flee from the witnesses of their wrongdoings.

If anyone has a conscience it's generally a guilty one.

All men who participate in wars find themselves obliged to do things which, if they are decent people, they afterwards regret.

Krijemo ljubav, tako je i ugušimo. Šteta.

Vidiš, još mislim dobro o tebi, i želim da se ponekad probudiš usred no?i, i da dugo sjediš prekrštenih nogu na postelji, mu?e?i se kajanjem i stidom, zbog mene. Ali, neka ti je bogom prosto, nisi ti birao svoju sitnu dušu, dali su ti je, ne pitaju?i. Došao si na red kad drugih, boljih, više nije bilo.

Hiljadu puta se pokajes za ono sto kazes, rijetko za ono sto precutis.

I'm sorry," he says, "for that time I kissed you at that party and for that time at the wedding and more than anything for the thousand times that I wanted to and didn't have the guts to.

And at that moment Jude thought something that he would never forgive himself for. He wished that he had never met any of them.

If I did something to hurt Frankie and she said that I was never getting near her heart again, I'd spent the rest of my life trying anyway. That's the difference between you and me, Tom. I'd go back to the moment it all fell apart and I'd start there.

Phaedra of Alonso's death was a never-ending pain that gnawed at his insides. It made him a prisoner in his own cottage.