Quotes About Remorse

This was our common ground, the secret we shared but never spoke aloud. I should have been with him; she should have left him alone. Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

Entonces empezó a llorar. No se si era por el dolor que sentía o por el dolor que acababa de provocar.

No, you're not. If you were really sorry, you wouldn't have done it. We do as we please, and then say we're sorry. But we're not sorry. We're just uncomfortable--watching other people in pain.

The poor guy," she said, and this was remorse over her savage speed and rashness as well as pity for this boy, haunting the mouth of an alley with that toy of swift decisions.

That was us.' I told him we were the kids who'd caused the Burneys' deaths.

But never did Henry, as he thought he did,end anyone and hacks her body upand hide the pieces, where they may be found.He knows: he went over everyone, & nobody's missing.Often he reckons, in the dawn, them up.Nobody is ever missing.

The version of you who forgot his love, a creature more lithotroph than human, failed to pull the trigger, but died on the field of honor. Some say he turned his gun on himself before you shot him." Montrose put his face in his hands. He shot himself in a duel for love of Rania. He remembered having done something like this before.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there to save you, or to die alongside you. I am sorry that I have kept you with me for so long, trapped in my heart, bound in sorrow and remorse. I forgive you too. I forgive you for leaving me, and I forgive you for returning. I forgive you your anger, and your grief. Let this be an end to it.

Wickedness never rests easily so, in a way, one might almost feel pity for the wicked, for they are destined to live their lives in fear, in a prison of the heart.

wanted to talk to them. I wanted to tell them that I was sorry. I wanted to say what every child wishes to say to his parents when they're gone and it's too late to say anything at all: that I loved them, and had always loved them.

There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin.

It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

You should have died when I killed you.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

I am sorry too," said Lupin. "Sorry I will never know [my son]... but he will know why I died and I hope he will understand I was trying to make a world in which he could live a happier life.

A clear conscience is generally the result of a faulty memory, not a faulty life.

Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life.

Where error is irreparable, repentance is useless.

Z is for Zillah who drank too much gin.

We live in a superficial, media-driven culture that often seems uncomfortable with true depths of feeling. Indeed, it seems as if our culture has become increasingly intolerant of that acute sorrow, that intense mental anguish and deep remorse which may be defined as grief. We want to medicate such sorrow away. We want to divide it into recognizable stages so that grief can be labeled, tamed, and put behind us.

She was quiet for a moment or two. Then she said: 'Cruel words are a terrible thing, Quash. Sometimes you regret them. But what's been said cannot be unsaid.

I would have rid the earth of himOnce, in my pride.I never knew the worth of himUntil he died.

What else should she have expected? That he'd be here, waiting with open arms for her forever? No. She had hurt him. And he had done what any sane person would do. And now it was too late.