Quotes About Remorse

God, I wanted to be forgiven, but an apology offered to a dead man is only a selfish apology to yourself.

Lydia: Strange how you always remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

I wronged him, Katra. Greatly. I had the entire world in my hand at one time and I didn't know it. I let stupidity blind me and I lost him because of that. (Artemis) Then tell him you're sorry. (Kat) As your father would say, there are some things 'sorry' can't repair. Some pains run too deep to ever be healed by something as simple as words, no matter how much you mean them. (Artemis)

When you first take someone's life, two people die. The person you just killed and the human being you used to be. You're never the same after that—it changes you forever and not in a good way —and no matter how hard you try, you can't go back to the innocence you had. Ever.

Lydia: Strange how you always seem to remember the pain someone gave you, but seldom the hurt you caused them.

What have I done? What horrid crime committed? To me the worst of crimes-outliv'd my liking.

Does taking the life of the perpetrator return your mom? No.

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.

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.

Shoulda, coulda, woulda. It's so easy in the past tense.

One of my da's tragedies was always the fact that he was bright enough to understand just how comprehensively he had shat all over his life.

Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.

Like a ghostly roll of drums remorselessly beat the measure of life.

Daniel had ruined that couple's life. Killed their daughter. All because he'd been some hotshot angel who saw something he wanted and went after it.

I never did a thing in all my life, virtuous or otherwise that I didn't repent of within twenty-four hours.

Ooit heb ik hem "Oeps" horen zeggen, toen hij de oren afsneed van iemand die te veel vragen stelde. - Aloom over Will

Et ies nit oe, 'eren, toekestan de passee mon broek zondèr me betaal de tolle!

Of all sad words of tongue or pen, the saddest are these, 'It might have been.

For of all sad words of tongue or pen, The saddest are these: "It might have been!

La gente dice «lo siento» sin parar. ¿Sabes cuántas veces he oído esa frase? Demasiadas. Y rara vez quien la pronuncia lo siente de verdad. Normalmente lo que quiere decir es «siento que me hayan pillado».

And I want you to understand: I felt terrible. I've felt awful virtually every time I've had one of my on-court meltdowns, with the exception of a few occasions when I really believed I needed to let someone have it. But those really are the exceptions. I've apologized a number of times afterward to umpires and players. And to anyone out there who felt they deserved an apology but didn't get one: I apologize now.

William Carlos Williams? "This Is Just to Say"—yes, Dabney had always loved that poem. In the years of Agnes's growing up, a copy of the poem had been taped to the refrigerator door. It was an apology poem—forgive me, they were delicious, so sweet and so cold. Box was holding out the plum and a bottle of chilled Perrier with a silly grin on his face. Celerie

Sometimes you regret the things you do, but they're over and done. Regretting the things you didn't do is tougher, because they're still out there… haunting you. The what-ifs.

A man is ruled by appetite and remorse, and I swallowed what I could.