Quotes About Remorse

Volatile people, you can't trust them, that's the thing; and they know it. So that even if they feel remorse, it does no good, and they know that too. So they get lonely. And they feel the remorse less and less, maybe. They give up.

Mother says I have no heart for my own kind. She doesn't know. I have too much. I know what we have done, and what we deserve.

He'd given her the mother of all hangovers - a run-in with the wrath of grapes.

How could he be so good to me when I'd hurt him so deeply? I remembered his blood-curdling roar when I'd ridden away from him—to be with Jack. . . . As

The thing is done; it can't be undone. How can one go back and change a moment passed? Even a moment that should never have come. I fear with the deed I have lost not only my virtue but my life as well. For of all life's betrayers, the heart is the worst. It flutters with joyful anticipation, leading down paths better untrod. Now that I know my heart, I must never follow it again.

I didn't think about its being wrong to go in and try on the brooch; but I see now that it was and I'll never do it again. That's one good thing about me. I never do the same naughty thing twice

Hell begins the day that God grants you the vision to see all that you could have done, should have done, and would have done, but did not do.

Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion.

His clear conscience is a result of a poor memory.

What is at the base of shame or guilt? It is the consciousness of an imbalance, or of an action in the past that has caused, and probably continues to cause, suffering.

Apologize quickly when you wrong someone, because I'm sorry has no value in the grave.

I cannot fish without falling a little in self-respect...always when I have done I feel it would have been better if I had not fished.

Sometimes I feel like a normal person. Sometimes I forget I'm on parole, that I'm not really free.

The sin which makes you sad and repentant is more liked by Allah than the good deed which turns you arrogant.

May God have mercy on my soul for the deaths on my name and for the treachery I committed. Betrayal of God and country, what a sad and horrible thing it is.

Not only will America go to your country and kill all your people. But they'll come back 20 years later and make a movie about how killing your people made their soldiers feel sad.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

Thus did the unkind step-mother humble herself and ask forgiveness of the girl she had so wronged.

Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed?

Habit is a horrible thing. I repeated the kiss for which I had so repented.

Rocket: Have you ever wanted to just take something back? You know, something you said, something you did? Baby Doll: All the time.

In one of those bitter ironies, at the end of his life Marr recanted his antisemitic accusations and, in a final essay entitled "Testament of an Antisemite," acknowledged that the faults he attributed to the Jews were, in fact, the result of the Industrial Revolution and the political debates of the times.2 His remorse notwithstanding, the damage had already been done.)

If there was one thing Sam understood, it was guilt. It didn't have to be logical; oftentimes it wasn't. It sawed at your gut relentlessly, tediously, until you wore it like a scar.

She knew that everything he did was wrong and the fault was hers. He pulled his notebook out of his pocket, stupidly.