Quotes About Remorse

I've done many things that I thought I would never dare to do because they were sins. But I didn't realize then that the consequence of sin is that you have to trample on other people.

I'm not as good a man as you are. I can't so easily forgive those I have wronged.

En mi corazón ¿predominaba la ira o el remordimiento? La ira convertida en resentimiento se volvía más incómoda; el remordimiento convertido en asombro, más llevadero.

But it was too late. I was down the steps and out the door, where the warm night air almost felt like forgiveness.

The day it all went wrong for me was 11 August 1989. That was the day I killed a man for the first time.

Sometimes you do things to yourself so bad that the memories have barbs and never let you go.

An ox carcass by Rembrandt seems so utterly butchered as to be agonisingly still alive. A

I wish I could turn back time, but I can't. I made a stupid decision because I thought I was invincible, and I'll pay for it the rest of my life.

Can you hate someone for what they have done, but still love them for whom they had been?

But love that comes too late, Like a remorseful pardon slowly carried, To the great sender turns a sour offense, Crying, 'That's good that's gone.

Sin from thy lips? O trespass sweetly urged! Give me my sin again.

Also, a mob has no conscience and no remorse. It is the nearest thing to a devil that exists, and it is also the nearest thing to the divine mercy and courage. It

If there's anything worse than visualizing your own death, it's knowing that you caused it.

Behind the frantic expressions on the faces of humanity is unresolved regret.

Guilt leaves a tattooed heart.

Ze was te ver van huis gegaan om nog terug te gaan.

These angers are crippling, like a fit when they happen, and then, when they are over, haunting me with remorse. Those who know me well and love me have come to accept them as part of me; yet I know they are unacceptable.

Africans find it hard to forgive us slavery, don't they? He took my hand and said, I thought you would have known that. My dear, they can't forgive us, and even more terrible, they can't forgive themselves. They're like the young here in this tragic country [Germany]. They will never forgive their parents for what they did to the Jews, and they can't forgive the Jews for surviving and being a living testament to human bestiality.

If you're asking me if I have blood on my hands then yeah, no doubt.

And then, little by little, the reality of what I had just done sank in: I had just killed my boyfriend's dad!

I'll remind her of how fat her arms looked in that slutty dress she wore at senior prom. That always makes her cry. Like goddamned Niagara falls.

If there are three words in the English language worse than Got a minute? they can only be About last night...

Even now, remembering the sound of his voice chastens every word I say.

Arsenius always used to say this, 'Why, words, did I let you get out? I have often been sorry that I have spoken, never that I have been silent.