Quotes About Remorse

Love that comes too late,Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried.

Out, damned spot out, I say

Since Cleopatra died, I have liv'd in such dishonour that the gods Detest my baseness.

What's done can't be undone.

There will never a time in eternity when, in sight of the Lamb on the throne, we will not be sorry for our sin and grateful to the Lamb.

Trzeba si? pilnowa?, bo inaczej ani si? cz?owiek obejrzy, a ju? zaczyna ka?dego ?a?owa? i w ko?cu nie ma komu w mord? da?

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

I used to steal second base, and feel guilty and go back.

When we played softball, I'd steal second base, feel guilty and go back.

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

Le regret est un état d'âme. Le remords est un cas de conscience. Et je n'ai ni l'un ni l'autre. (p.57)

Nic is writing 'I am sorry', and I want to cry. No, I think, don't let him in again. No don't let him in again. No don't let him in again.

There is nothing more you can do to hurt me now. You have already broken the man you knew, crucified every part of my humanity and left me with nothing except the ruins of what I once was. Why do you look away? Have you developed a conscience? What a burden it must be to you.

But my apology was a thousand apologies.

she wonders if we feel more regret for the things we do or for the things we didn't do

It's funny the ways we try to punish ourselves when we feel we've committed some crime.

Sorry, sorry, sorry. Oh, you can pile on as many as you want, but the guilt is still there, like that pea under all those mattresses.

Good...if you've done things you aren't proud of. It means you have a conscience.

Tú sabes que el único motivo de arrepentimiento, no ya para un asesino, sino para cualquiera, es el fracaso.

Han pasado tres semanas y aún me culpo de su muerte a todas horas, aunque Tom –el psicólogo con el que estoy haciendo terapia– dice que no fui responsable. Y, en el fondo, lo sé. Pero no puedo sacarme de la cabeza la idea de que si lo hubiera encontrado antes, si no lo hubiera dejado solo en el mar, si hubiera entrado con él en el agua, si no hubiéramos bebido o, incluso, si no hubiera luchado por conquistarlo, él ahora estaría vivo.

Of course I apologized, but I couldn't shake the sense that I was truly an asshole.

To write is your last resort when you've betrayed someone.

Quand tu sauras mon crime, et le sort qui m'accable, Je n'en mourrai pas moins, j'en mourrai plus coupable

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.