Quotes About Remorse

If only I'd done such and such instead of such and such, gone there instead of there, said that and not that, or looked different, or hadn't gone out that day with Ivanhoe or that night or that week or anytime during the last two months

Toutes ces bêtises, tous ces remords, et nos bulles de savon à l'enterrement du parrain de Lola... (L'échappée belle, p.37)

it wouldn't take much for the sorrow she felt at the sorrow she caused to drown her again

Den Kummer dessen, der das Unglück auslöst. Diejenigen, die bleiben, bedauert man, die tröstet man. Aber diejenigen, die gehen?

If one had irreparably injured a fellow-being, it would be hard for a person of sensitive nature to live a happy life afterwards; though the fact of not living a happy life ought to be no reason why one should not live a good life.

I was her punishment, certainly, she thinks, taking the empty suitcase out from under the bed. As she was mine. But remind me again of our crime?

She HATED to think about her sins.

Hazel could not explain that she had forgotten, that there was Jack and soul-sucking villains, and sometimes you are too scratchy to remember the things you are supposed to do, even if you do feel really bad about it later.

He was always sorry. He always told you how sorry he was.

As Nietzsche points out, regret can do nothing to change what has already happened. We just wallow in remorse about something over which we no longer have any control. But if regret happened before a decision instead of after, the experience of regret might get us to change a choice likely to result in a bad outcome.

If you don't feel apologetic for slavery, if you don't feel apologetic for colonialism, if you feel proud of it then say that.

Blood-guilty wretch

Too late, old boy, too late. The saddest words in the English language.

Yes I am poor man. When I was very young I used often to be drunk. Now it is very seldom. Once or two times in the year. But always I do something I am very sorry for. I think perhaps I shall get drunk tonight," he suggested, brightening.

Have a drink Tom and then you won't feel so foolish to yourself.

He sometimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had given, as a general might gaze upon a massacre he had ordered to satisfy an impersonal blood lust.

Dishonesty in a woman is a thing you never blame deeply—I was casually sorry, and then I forgot.

Then I feel ashamed because I know how much she loves me. It's the excess that

I'm really busted up over this and I'm very, very sorry to those people in the audience, the blacks, the Hispanics, whites - everyone that was there that took the brunt of that anger and hate and rage and how it came through.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

I cheated on my first wife, Kristin. I thought I was untouchable. How could I be that inconsiderate to someone?

I regret hurting my wife and my child and abandoning them. I regret the pain I caused them.

People have a tendency to do that - to go the polar opposite of what they've done before if they've felt like they've done something wrong.

I'm a terrible husband.