Quotes About Remorse

Meglio morire che vivere con la consapevolezza di aver fatto qualcosa che ha bisogno del perdono altrui.»

They would all be sorry... particularly the duck.

Maxie knew he must have been very bad to deserve this. He wondered what it was he had done. And why he hadn't enjoyed it more at the time

He had, in the past, wanted to be kind, and, as ever, had supplied the wrong sort of kindness.

Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.

I don't hate you. I hate what you've done and what it led to.

Guilt always made her ratty.

During my breakdown, many things, tiny things I had not even registered before, had begun to torment me with guilt. I used to steal Splenda from Starbucks. I would go into a Starbucks whenever I needed the sweetener and would take a fistful of packets, even when I didn't buy a coffee.

There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse.

You can't be sent away to prison for life and feel OK about it.

I felt bad for everybody I hurt with my false testimonies.

I remember stealing some pic n' mix when I was seven; when I got out of the shop, I burst into tears.

I once heard a judge tell a defendant there was a difference between being sorry for his actions and being sorry he got caught

This was also his MO. Excuses for his behavior so he wouldn't have to accept what he'd done.

Sorry won't get my license back." Jake walked faster. "Just shut up. Don't talk to me. It's bad enough I have to spend

We live in a society that shuns guilt, hardly knows it. It is drummed into us: "Don't feel guilty." No one wants to pay the price of reconciliation, of atonement, of forgiveness.

Hell's built on regret.

there are words that can never be unsaid or forgotten...

Time will tell if sorry is enough. I don't think it is. If you died tonight, I wouldn't come to your funeral." "You'd

The years forget our errors and forgive our sins, but they punish our inaction with living death.

againbite [agenbite] of inwit. James Joyce revived the expression agenbite [againbite] of inwit in Ulysses. it is a good example of Anglo-Saxon replacements of foreign words, meaning the "remorse of conscience" and originally being the prose translation of a French moral treatise (The Ayenbite of Ynwit) made by Dan Michel in 1340.

In recounting his first crime, the serial killer, Ted Bundy, recalled that he felt disgusted with what he had done. Ramirez may have experienced similar emotional turmoil – at first. Then he likely revisited the crime in his mind, reliving the rape and murder over and over again.

Suffering; impossibility of being comfortable anywhere; oppression, irritations and remorse one after the next, everything under the sign wretchedness of man, used by Pascal.

Mr. Monroe, if you have come to tell me that you repent, that you are sorry, very sorry, for the misrepresentations and the slanders and the stories you circulated against my dear husband, if you have come to say this, I understand it. But otherwise, no lapse of time, no nearness to the grave, makes any difference.