Quotes About Remorse

Circumstances are quite unimportant, character is everything; in vain we break with outside things or people; we cannot break with ourselves. We change our circumstances, but we take with us into each new situation the torment we had hoped to leave behind, and as we cannot shake ourselves any better by a change of scene, we simply find that we have added remorse to regrets and misdeeds to sufferings.

It was not just one career I mourned; as I had never tried any career I mourned them all. Never having put my talents to the test, I imagined they were limitless and cursed them because of it, wishing nature had made me weak and commonplace, and spared me at any rate the remorse that comes from deliberate self-abasement. Any praise or approval of my intelligence or knowledge seemed an unbearable reproach, like hearing admiration for the powerful arms of an athlete chained down in a dungeon.

I'm going home now. I apologize for what I said. I hope you can forget it, but I'm going home right now.

What's the worst thing I've stolen? Probably little pieces of other people's lives. Where I've either wasted their time or hurt them in some way. That's the worst thing you can steal, the time of other people. You just can't get that back.

Tweeting is like doing drugs. Seems like fun, but you just end up regretting it afterward.

I've done a lot of things that I regret.

I took responsibility for the illegal actions, the potential for violence in my past actions, which I regret.

Everyday I look back at my history and feel regret.

Was I the best husband? No. And I regret it.

I constantly say things that I regret. I mortify myself constantly.

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

There are things you're supposed to learn in life. My biggest regret was terminating a pregnancy when I was about 18. Every day, I think about who that baby would be now; it still makes me sad.

I don't regret what I've done but some of the things I didn't do.

There is no doubt One.Tel was a terrible investment and something that I regret greatly.

I don't regret speaking out, but I regret the way I went about it, so put it that way, yes.

I don't regret the decision to leave Madrid, only the way that I left, which wasn't the best.

In the emotion, you say things that you regret the next day.

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.

People often get caught in situations or do something that they regret for the rest of their lives. What happens and how you try to cover up is the story. These are not career criminals.

Actually, the only thing that I can honestly say I really regret now is the blackface thing. I did not understand.

I did a lot of things I regret.

All of us at some point in life regret for things we did and did not do in life.

That's one thing I don't want to happen is a regret getting a tat because that bad boy not going away.

I hurt people with my words and I regret that.