Quotes About Remorse

No deed is good that one regrets having done.

When sila is strong, we are saying with our actions that no one need fear us. This is one of the greatest contributions we can give to the world, for our nonharming offers the gift of safety and trust to all those around us. And last, morality brings us the peace of nonremorse.

He was sick with lust and mesmerized with regret

He was genuinely sorry for Yossarian; when Yossarian realized that, he was genuinely sorry for Rogoff.

resentment, condemnation of others, remorse, and hostility are behind a host of maladies ranging from arthritis to cardiac disease.

I do remember what I said. The promise. To protect her. If I'd done that ... even if I didn't make it, you wouldn't've had to jump. I want you to know I did save you. Not when it counted, of course. But after that. Every night after that. I'd see it all again, do something different. Faster or more clever, you know? Dozens of times, lots of different ways ...Every night I save you.

Con decirle que muchos de los que allí se mueren, al llegar al Infierno regresan por su cobija.

There is some history that I want not to have happened. I resist the consequences of being Nemesis.

Consider the odd morphology of regret.

sentimiento de culpa suele obrar como una forma de autocastigo que apunta directo al corazón, una especie de harakiri psicológico autodestructivo, donde se ataca a la persona y no la conducta específica:

She sat for a few minutes in the company of her bitter regrets...

True regret is based on repentance – grieving for the sin, not the consequence of sin.

Una de las grandes vergüenzas de la experiencia humana es que solo sabemos adoptar la conducta adecuada cuando ya es muy tarde.

What's done cannot be undone. —Macbeth (1606), act 5, scene 1

Like serial killers and three of the worst men I ever dated, I never really had a grasp on what I was supposed to feel sorry about. Week after week, I filled the confessional with lies. I yelled at my teacher. I stole my best friend's favorite toy. I kicked a dog. I punched my brother in the nuts.

This miserable state is borne by the wretched souls of those who lived without disgrace and without praise.

She didn't know exactly when she had first felt the sensation of regret. It was a physical sensation, a shudder that began deep in the stomach and traveled up through the throat; it was distinct from remorse, which one felt first in the throat and only later in the gut. Yet it was regret that she couldn't handle. She did anything she could to avoid it—including the initial bargain, the one that began everything. And now this one.

The basic response stages to killing in combat are concern about killing, the actual kill, exhilaration, remorse, and rationalization and acceptance.

In order to feel remorse, there had to be a gray area, some part of the situation that made you uncertain of your choices. Noah

It is important and vital to not use more than 5% of any given time on rewarding yourself, rewards are good for your psyche but too much leads you in the regret and remorse trap

He shot me." It just came out, a new number one on the list of the dumbest things he'd ever said.

He looked down, saw that his hands and legs were shaking, and he suddenly felt freezing cold. "What have I done?" he mumbled, but the others didn't say a word.

He'd killed Newt. He'd shot his own friend in the head.

What did we do differently?" "I don't know. It's kind of hard to ask a dead guy what he did wrong.