Quotes About Remorse

The man who let the love of his life pass him by will end up alone with his regrets and all the sighs in the world won't soothe his soul.

A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.

I shot a man in Reno just to watch him die.

In truth, her grief made me uncomfortable. It was too close to a place I had been, and not long ago. I was wary of her sadness, as if it were contagious, and found myself looking for excuses to stay away from her, trying to keep myself busy so that I didn't have to absorb it too... And then I thought about his later years when I'd treated him almost as a part of the furniture. I hadn't written to him. I hadn't called him. I had just assumed he would be here as long as I wanted him to be.

Had he actually possessed the ability simply to airbrush an entire daughter out of his conscience?

I felt suddenly, unbearably tired. I felt this peculiar urge to say sorry, and I wasn't sure what for.

Te fallé, Will. Te fallé en todas las maneras posibles.

I realized, now I could see him in the light, that he looked really, properly ill and I felt terrible for having failed to grasp it.

Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories

But when it came to her own behavior—to the threat she posed to herself—she'd been incapable of gauging its gravity and reluctant to avail herself of the only option for fixing it. Too little, too late, she'd now tried to address it.

I'm not sure the word "sorry" does anything justice. It's such a loose word isn't it? I mean how can one puny word encompass all the stuff you did - But also the, all the things you didn't do? It's the inactions that keep people up at night. The actions, they're done. They're done. It's the inactions that never go away. They just hang there. They ROT. How is sorry supposed to stretch across all that?

Guilt loves the passive.

The mistakes I've made are dead to me. But I can't take back the things I never did.

A word of friendly advice could have saved him, but dear me, I was too busy watching him unravel to think of it until it was far too late.

I feel a dark wave of regret for the kind of person I turned out to be.

Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing.

lo malo de los muertos era que no aceptaban disculpas.

Era valiente', nos dijo, 'pero yo tengo resaca y no estoy para perdonar la vida de nadie.

That was horrible. Horrible. That poor little guy." Pex was unrepentant. "Yeah, well, he asked for it. Calling us ... all those things." But---buried alive! That's like in that horror movie. Y'know -- the one with all the horror." I think I saw that one. With all the words going up on the screen at the end?" Yeah, that was it. Tell you the truth, those words kinda ruined it for me.

The pain of not knowing what to do was exceeded only by that of knowing what I had done.

The more we are attentive and mindful, the more we can understand and show empathy. We need not, so therefore, bother about regret and remorse, later on. . ( "Island of regret. Island of remorse" )

I wish I hadn't saved you!" he blurted out. "I wish I'd gone for my brother first. Then maybe he'd still be alive!

Guilt's a terrible thing.

Do. You. Ever. Feel. Guilty." He smiled. "Doesn't everybody?