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Quotes About Remorse

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.
~ Charles Simmons
I never hurt anybody; I only hurt myself and my family. I never did anything mean to anybody, I was just mean to myself.
~ Tom Sizemore
If I could go back and not create 8chan at all, I probably would.
~ Fredrick Brennan
In the morning he was lying dead on one of the beds fully clothed. He was dead. I got the impression he wanted to go, and I must have killed him. I can't remember strangling him. I just sat there shocked.
~ Dennis Nilsen
So I was still guilty. And if I was not guilty because one cannot be guilty of betraying a criminal, then I was guilty of having loved a criminal.
~ Bernhard Schlink
She will be mired in responsibilities that are not of her own making. She will charm, and beneath her charm, she will regret.
~ Beth Kephart
At least Harry realized that some of the worst murderers were the biggest criers at their victims' funerals.
~ Betty Webb
APOLOGIZE, v.i. To lay the foundation for a future offense.
~ bierce ambrose iii
If I could reach down in my heart, I would say I'm sorry for every unkind word and thought I ever had.
~ Terry Bradshaw
You know it's easy to say you shouldn't do something and then something happens and you say, 'Wow, I wish I would have done something.'
~ Louis Susman
Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.
~ Plautus
feelings, so that I suffered less guilt, remorse, shame, anger, envy, boredom, and irritation. Also easy to understand.
~ Gretchen Rubin
Ah ! il était parti, le seul charme de sa vie, le seul espoir possible d'une félicité ! Comment n'avait-elle pas saisi ce bonheur-là, quand il se présentait ! Pourquoi ne l'avoir pas retenu à deux mains, à deux genoux, quand il voulait s'enfuir ? Et elle se maudit de n'avoir pas aimé Léon
~ Gustave Flaubert
Thou, thou hast no pity save for thine own misery. It is like a remorse that gnaws thee, a savage madness that impels thee to repel the caress of a dog or to frown upon the smile of a child.
~ Gustave Flaubert
Il ne faut pas que tu me pardonnes - rien ne fait plus mal qu'un pardon - mais que tu ne m'en veuilles pas de ce que j'ai fait.
~ Guy De Mauspassant
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves, and hinting in these ways of her mournfulness or rejoicing. Always she is remembering old things, and these memories, though we may not grasp them, are imparted to us, so that we share her gaiety or remorse.
~ H.P. Lovecraft
Adesso sono ai tuoi piedi, niente più ardore nel mio cuore, le ali spezzate, la bocca che schiuma un rimpianto parole troppo confuse per avere un senso. Questo voglio dirti: Amore, sono tornato a casa
~ Ha Jin
Suicide is one way of saying you're sorry.
~ Hanif Kureishi
As Eichmann told it, the most potent factor in the soothing of his own conscience was the simple fact that he could see no one, no one at all, who actually was against the Final Solution. He did
~ Hannah Arendt
So even if I didn't wield the weapon that smashed my son's beautiful being into the mangled mess I found on that awful night five years ago, I didn't stop it either. I didn't do my job as his father. I didn't protect him. Guilty or not guilty of the actual murder, it is my fault and thus my sentence to serve.
~ Harlan Coben
Cheating gets easier every time it's done. It's only hard the first time, when one feels the sting of morality and the guilt of betraying someone's trust.
~ Greg Behrendt
bad that the lesson had come too late for the two of them.
~ Sherryl Woods
All evil actions committed by me since time immemorial, stemming from greed, anger, and ignorance, arising from body, speech, and mind, I deeply repent having committed.
~ Shi Wuling
At times you don't have enough time to live and regret a wrong split second decision!!!!
~ Siddharth Astir