Quotes About Remorse

Penitence is nothing but a form of self-indulgence. Some things you cannot wash from your hands, and there's no use in trying." He

Remorse is feeling sorry, while repentance is being sorry enough to stop.

Guilt is an indulgence, it entangles you in the past.

Beetles never stop. They gnaw silently and relentlessly. Guilt is like that too.

What if the worst thing you ever did was something you didn't do?

Kathy's death, and what he'd done to get rid of her body, was an anvil pitched on Dave's shoulders. He knew he could never erase what he'd done. He thought of how Kathy's family would always wonder where she'd gone, and if she was happy.

Il passato si riflette perennemente in due specchi: quello luminoso delle parole pronunciate e delle azioni compiute e quello scuro, colmo di tutte le cose che non abbiamo detto o fatto.

And every day I woke with a dream or a thought of her. Every night I slept with the knife of regret in my chest.

And when you left, I didn't feel anything at all. Not a thing. I didn't want to be forgiven because of what I did. I wanted to be forgiven—and I still

It's the endlessly thinking about yourself that causes such heart shame.

Germany has spent the decades since World War II in national penance for Nazi crimes. America spent the decades after the Civil War transforming Confederate crimes into virtues. It is illegal to fly the Nazi flag in Germany. The Confederate flag is enmeshed in the state flag of Mississippi.

Many people in Hungary acted shamefully during World War II.

Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.

It's bad when you fail morally. It's worse when you don't repent.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

When I was young, I told my sister that she had chunky thighs. She slapped me and I cried. She feels bad about it to this day, but I feel worse.

'The Duffler' is a very familiar story, a story about someone having something and not appreciating it until it's gone, when it's too late.

I hate myself seconds after I've gotten angry but it's too late by then. I start defending my actions after that. It's shameful.

I've seen too many sunrises, as far as the walk of shame, staying out too late doing very bad things.

Truly saying sorry is never easy to do, and when you are, you just hope it's not too late.

The torture of a bad conscience is the hell of a living soul.

Killing hurts the heart and soils the soul.

Little sins of omission that loom large now. You could go mad.

True repentance isn't just saying, "I'm sorry". It's. saying "I'm sorry, I'll never, ever do that again because my relationship with you means more to me than anything".