Quotes About Remorse

This …this shouldn't have happened. I'm sorry." "Sorry?" Weak laughter bubbled up in her. Sorry was for when you stepped on someone's toe, or when you knocked over a lamp. Not for when you crushed someone's entire world.

He had been far away from home, and something terrible had happened … and it was that something which had taken their lives and blown them apart. She understood too, now, after all these years, that Brian hadn't meant to hurt her.

Guilt always makes the other feelings worse.

More shouts of laughter greeted this, and off the girls ran, laughing and talking and forgetting Wanda and her hundred dresses. Forgetting until tomorrow and the next day and the next, when Peggy, seeing her coming to school, would remember and ask her about the hundred dresses. For now Peggy seemed to think a day was lost if she had not had some fun with Wanda, winning the approving laughter of the girls.

What have I done, she thought, dazed by wine, and what is this gold circle, this glittering zero I've stuck my finger in.

Soon she'll start yelling, I thought, soon she'll hit her, trying to break that bond. Instead, the bond will become more twisted, will strengthen in remorse, in the humiliation of having shown herself in public to be an unaffectionate mother, not the mother of church or the Sunday supplements.

Words spoken cannot be recalled, and many a man and many a woman who has spoken a word at once regretted, are far too proud to express that regret.

she decided to break things off (...) with a determination that left no room for ambiguity or remorse, and perhaps had also made her immune to pain.

Usein käy niin, että liikoja puheitaan saa katua, mutta harvoin joutuu katumaan liian vähiä puheitaan.

Most people don't require forgiveness for own committed sins from their victims or others because they themselves are quite capable of forgiving themselves repeatedly.

Bad men are full of repentance.

El que deba vivir que viva; el que deba caer que caiga. De aquí su remordimiento y tristeza.

I dunno…maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Maybe everyone has to feel guilty. Everyone! Forever!

Each wrong act brings with it its own anesthetic, dulling the conscience and blinding it against further light, and sometimes for years.

I did some bad stuff. I don't remember what in particular, but I did some bad stuff. So the morning of Christmas, I wake up and my brother is there, my sister, my mom, everyone's got gifts and I can't find my gifts. No gifts. They acted like Santa didn't' bring me anything because I wasn't good.

Lepsius vede il viso glaciale dell'uomo che ha superato ogni sentimentalità, il viso dell'uomo che sta di là dalla colpa e dai suoi rimorsi, vede il grazioso volto di precisione di una specie a lui sconosciuta ma che gli toglie il respiro, vede l'ingenuità inquietante, quasi perfino innocente, della perfetta empietà.

When Godric banished Fairweather and Tune, they all three bled for it, and part of Godric snaked off too, nevermore to come again. And it's Godric's flesh that Ailred's cough cleaves to like an axe. And when brave Mouse went down off Wales, he bore to the bottom the cut of Godric's sharp farewell. And when Gillian vanished in a Dover wood, she took with her all but the husk of Godric's joy.

Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second.

The bite of conscience is indecent.

Repentance is not concerned with consequences. This is what distinguishes it from remorse, which is inspired principally by fear of unpleasant consequences

Tertullian said: "Penitence is a certain passion of the mind which comes from disgust at some previous feeling.

I pushed your boat out of the gentle stream where you were merrily singing and rowing Forgive me life is but a nightmare

If someone had really done you an ill turn and later came to you and said, "I am truly sorry," would that mean as much to you as "the burden of it has been intolerable to me"?