Quotes About Remorse

Remember what Simonides said, that he never repented that he had held his tongue, but often that he had spoken.

Being conscious of having done a wicked action leaves stings of remorse behind it, which, like an ulcer in the flesh, makes the mind smart with perpetual wounds; for reason, which chases away all other pains, creates repentance, shames the soul with confusion, and punishes it with torment.

Namun, kejahatannya juga tidak boleh dilupakan begitu saja karena jasa beberapa orang.

A person who torments others does not sleep well.

The thief is sorry he is to be hanged, not that he is a thief. #ReasonbehindApology

The man who does not feel the slightest remorse when poisoning his customers with noxious drugs covered with pompous labels, thinks he is in honour bound to keep his engagements. But if this relative morality has developed under present conditions, when enrichment is the only incentive and the only aim, can we doubt its rapid progress when appropriation of the fruits of others' labour will no longer be the basis of society?

white folks can never comprehend a situation where they can't be forgiven for past transgressions).

face up to the seriousness – possibly a high-handed wickedness – of what they did; and still to forgive. This

I was used to the sound and was barely startled by it, and in that half-conscious state I could hear it as all strange things. Sometimes I liked to imagine, I told him, that it was the sound of wicked men blowing their brains out, one after another. 'Huh,' he said, with a grudging half-smile. 'Wicked men don't do that. Anyway, you'd probably like those men if you got to know them. Nothing evil ever dies. Especially not of remorse.

I always regretted how much I hurt you.

I don't have to wait until the next morning to regret something I did that was kinda dumb.

I didn't go to the Bob Marley and the Wailers show twice in my life, and I've regretted it every day since.

Godly sorrow is a gift of the Spirit. It is a deep realization that our actions have offended our Father and our God. It is the sharp and keen awareness that our behavior caused the Savior, He who knew no sin, even the greatest of all, to endure agony and suffering.

Jake had never felt like such a fool for keeping a promise. He'd broken plenty of others he should have kept. Why had he kept one he should have broken?

Psychiatry, in fact, is wrestling with the ramifications of a drug that removes guilt and remorse. What kind of a world will we have when a rapist can take a morning-after pill?

From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living.

From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Did all dying people feel this way, as if they had never lived? Did life seem that short, indeed, over and done before you took a breath? Did it seem this abrupt and impossible to everyone, or only to himself, here, now, with a few hours left to him for thought and deliberation?

We never burned right.

The Murderer

Señor Montag, está usted ante un cobarde. Vi el camino que tomaban las cosas, hace tiempo. No dije nada. Soy un inocente que pudo haber hablado cuando nadie quería escuchar al «culpable»; pero no hablé, y me convertí así en otro culpable más. Y cuando al fin organizaron la quema de libros, con la ayuda de los bomberos, lancé unos gruñidos y callé. No había otros que gruñesen o gritasen conmigo. Ahora es tarde.

Are not our lives too short for that full utterance which through all our stammerings is of course our only and abiding intention? I have given up expecting those last words, whose ring, if they could only be pronounced, would shake both heaven and earth. There is never time to say our last word - the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. The heaven and earth must not be shaken. I suppose - at least, not by us who know so many truths about either.

Que coisa engraçada é a vida, esse arranjo misterioso de lógica impiedosa e propósito fútil. O máximo que se pode esperar dela é algum conhecimento de si mesmo, que vem tarde demais, uma seara de remorsos inextinguíveis.

He was easily sorry for people.

it is such a long time since we both turned saints, that you may have forgotten we, too, sinned in our time?