Quotes About Remorse

Please forgive me for being impertinent and ungrateful. I was badly brought up.

TODA MI FAMILIA ESTÁ MUERTA POR MI CULPA

Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.

The young man had lost his mentor, his home, and his brother, all because of the actions of a single night.

it's crazy to think he wouldn't call the police. But I despise him. I don't care how irrational it is; if my mind worked normally, I wouldn't have killed eight people for the fun of it.

You think I suffer, with all the people I have killed, the hundreds of lives I have destroyed. Should not demons visit me at night? Should I not be tormented by guilt? Sometimes I lie still in my be and wait for judgement, but it never arrives.

Los asesinos no volverán a entrar aquí mientras no laven sus crímenes.

In an inn somewhere, a wealthy guest mistakes [Rebbe Zusia] for a beggar and treats him accordingly. Later he learns his identity and comes to cry his remorse: Forgive me, Rebbe, you must - for I didn't know! Why do you ask Zusia to forgive you? Rebbe Zusia said, shaking his head and smiling. You haven't done anything bad to him; it is not Zusia you insulted but a poor beggar, so go and ask the beggars, everywhere, to forgive you!

His last word had been my name. He had called out to me and I had not answered. I

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher because they're still out there, haunting you with the what ifs.

Was there ever a death that involved no regret? ... more often than not, what he first heard in their moment of grief was the word 'should.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

For let not the unhappy wretch, who forgets his duties towards God and man, who gives himself up to the indulgence of his passions, and wrongs the innocent, think, if he escapes detection, he can be happy: alas! remorse and sorrow will one day assail him; he will find he cannot hide his crimes from himself, and his own conscience will prove his bitterest punishment.

ed. now. picking at the scab that was starting to heal over. why did guys do that? too little too late?

His chief uneasiness was that he could not be truly penitent about it.

De waarheid is dat William Macfarlane vond dat hij schuldig was aan Alice' dood, ook al kon hij er nog zo weinig aan doen. - Leo

Leo! Houd hem tegen! ... Leo. O, Leo, wat heb ik gedaan? - Alice

Alice Ramsay. Ik weet nu weer wat er is gebeurd, in elk geval een beetje. Op een of andere manier... was haar dood mijn schuld - ik heb haar dat aangedaan.' Hij liet zijn tranen nu de vrije loop. 'Dat is het enige wat ik weet. Van de rest kan ik me niet veel herinneren. Het is mijn schuld dat dit allemaal is gebeurd.' - Nick

They need to be punished to feel guilt, and then they're never punished, so they never do.

Sometimes it's the things we don't say that haunt us the most.

If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability for our choices, how can we find any triumph in our victories or any remorse in our losses?

Listen to me." He grabbed my arms, holding me there. " I couldn't find you. And I will never forgive myself for that. Ever.

She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.

She'd absolutely adored the library-an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it.