Quotes About Remorse

The whelp went home, and went to bed. If he had had any sense of what he had done that night, and had been less of a whelp and more of a brother, he might have turned short on the road, might have gone down to the ill-smelling river that was dyed black, might have gone to bed in it for good and all, and have curtained his head for ever with its filthy waters.

Od kajanja nema gore nesre?e.

Don't ever slam a door, you might want to go back.

This kid, he has to remember, this freaking junior varsity water boy, cut the heads off five men and rolled them across a disco floor like he was duckpin bowling. Guilty feet ain't got no rhythm, Eddie thinks.

No one can begin a new life, unless he repent of the old.

Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life.

Guilt is the thief of life.

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

How do you explain to yourself the casual manner in which you threw your life away?

Regret for wasted time is more wasted time

If you want to live a life free of regret, there is an option open to you. It's called a lobotomy.

My life is a series of dumb choices

I hate you. If only I'd known. If only I'd been enough. I let you down. I wish I could have done something. I should have done something. Was it my fault? Why wasn't I enough? Come back. I love you. I'm sorry.

struck her that these days that remorse was very thin on the ground. It seemed nobody had to be sorry any more for anything they did; instead they doubled down, were proud of it, never ever admitted to being in the wrong about anything.

If you were mine, I would never have broken up with you, not in a million years.

You treated her like garbage and now you decide you want her back.

If I win... do you know what I would wish for?" Don't say it, don't say it. Don't say the thing you can't take back. I'd wish we never started any of this." The words echo in my head, in the air.

she went as a "formal apology": she wore a floor-length evening gown we found at Goodwill for ten dollars, and she had a sign around her neck, written in calligraphy, which said, I'm sorry.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd raise yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Whistle or something. But I didn't know how to whistle, and it was too late anyway.

There are moments in life that you wish with all your heart you could take back. Like, just erase from existence. Like, if you could, you'd erase yourself right out of existence too, just to make that moment not exist.

Only by massive denial, repression of affect, and severe numbing of our human faculties and sensitivities could a person not feel a sense of remorse, apprehension, and dread.

She will rue her lack of curiosity, her ability to see things only as she wanted to, for the rest of her life.

Contrariamente ai riti proposti da un'intera comunità, quelli individuali sono caratterizzati da un senso ci colpa e rimorso.