Quotes About Remorse

P?catul este expresia religioas? a remu?c?rii, precum regretul expresia ei poetic?. Primul este o limit? superioar?; ultimul, una inferioar?

Call it insensitivity or a passion for remorse, I have never undertaken to rescue what little Absolute this world contains.

Whatever people try to do, they'll regret it sooner or later.

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When he was dead I realized that I had hardly ever spoken to him. When he had been dead a long time I began to wish I had.

Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.

Why had he done it? Why couldn't it just not have happened? Why didn't they have time-travel, why couldn't he go back and stop it happening? Ships that could circumnavigate the galaxy in a few years, and count every cell in your body from light-years off, but he wasn't able to go back one miserable day and alter one tiny, stupid, idiotic, shameful decision.

Guilt is the only affect I know of that does not diminish with time.

I began to feel frightened and depressed, and thought, 'This is my punishment for being an adulteress.' Then I remembered I was even poorer before I was one, so perhaps it was a punishment for something I had forgotten.

as their tongues met, Will knew he'd made a serious mistake. Fifteen years hadn't been enough to make him forget, and now, he had nowhere to run.

I wished I could take those words back. Gather them up like butterflies in a net.

What is done can never be undone.

Events in his own past he never thought of as evil but rather as mistaken, immensely regrettable, brought about by fear and greed.

Would the last animal, eating garbage and living on the last scrap of land, his mate dead, would he still forgive you?

A significant event in your life, and what you would or would not change about it. A significant event in your life. And what you would. Or would not. Change about it." Are you fucking kidding me? How about: not pulled the fucking trigger?

I try to stay out of her way. This is just something I do. I avoid her. [...] I don't want her to see me too often, to encounter me, to deal with me. Me, this walking, talking, living, breathing, eating, shitting, farting reminder of what she's had and what she's lost. [...] I don't linger in the house. I sleep in late, stay out late, keep my bedroom door closed when I'm home. I make myself invisible, intangible. It's easier for her, it's easier for me, just easier, period.

We consider a prisoner unfortunate. He is unfortunate in two ways -- because he has done something wrong and because he is deprived of his liberty. Therefore we should treat him kindly, because of his misfortune, for otherwise he would become hard and bitter and would not be sorry he had done wrong.

I realized I made a big mistake and if I could have it over again, I would do it so much differently.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

If you commit a crime, you maybe have to be haunted.

Perhaps his only vice was self-satisfaction--which few will admit to be a vice; remonstrance never reached him; to himself he was ever in the right, judging himself only by his sentiments and vague intents, never by his actions; that these had little correspondence never struck him; it had never even struck him that they ought to correspond.

He has wronged me grievously. It is a dreadful thing to me, and more dreadful still to him, that he should have done it. He has hurt me, but he has nearly killed himself.

It is one of the poorest of human weaknesses that a man would be ashamed of saying he has done wrong instead of so ashamed of having done wrong that he cannot rest till he has said so. For the shame cleaves fast until the confession removes it.

There were things, your own acts, from which you could never recover. Something was killed in your breast: burnt out, cauterized out.