Quotes About Remorse

When you get to the Otherworld, boy' – he had turned back to me – 'you won't regret the men you never killed, but you will regret the women you passed up.

He had pretended to be full of remorse, and shouted that remorse to the sky, "No more tits, God! No more tits! Keep me from tits!" and I remembered how Alfred had turned away in frustrated disgust. "Exanceaster

I was part of that too, and I apologize.

she was struck by how long life was, and how much time had passed, and she wished she could go back and apologize to those closest to her, explain that she understood now. Impossible, and yet the urge to return and be a different person never lessened, grew only more acute.

People make mistakes. People do things they never meant to do.

This is what I know about myself. She was all I wanted. And I took her away.

Every man is guilty of all the good he didn't do. Such a notion made it virtually impossible to enjoy life.

Forgiveness was so much harder than being remorseful. I couldn't imagine the terrible surrender it would take

I felt totally alone, I felt like an awful person, I felt really guilty and very overwhelmed because I was trying to fix things I couldn't fix.

I don't want to hurt you, he said. Too late.

Nicole wanted to slap herself. She was supposed to be helping her friend, not making things worse. "I'm sorry," she murmured. "I'm not helping.

I have knots in my years that I can`t undo, and this is one of the worst--the night I did wrong and Mauma got caught

No amount of liquor could make him forget the things he yearned to erase from his mind—

Shameful, wouldn't you

They will rue the day," Tucker growled.

They should make amends," she said. "They should face her, and confess, and try to make it right. They should go to jail and do volunteer work and show their sons they must be better. They should have to live with it, too, because I think no matter what they tell themselves, it must stay in them. A canker in them. A black place.

I was looking for my ex-lover to break the Sixth Commandment.

He wants to apologize but does not know for what. His life has been devoted to apologetics. It is his profession. He is concerned with both justification and remorse. He has always acted rightly, but nothing has ever come of it.

Estoy solo y me estoy muriendo de frío en una pensión de la calle Piedras, en Santa María, en cualquier madrugada, solo y arrepentido de mi soledad como si la hubiera buscado, orgulloso como si la hubiera merecido.

Do you dream of your victims?" he asked. "Yes," the murderer told him. "But only when I'm awake." Anzola had never heard a more perfect definition of guilt, and didn't ask him anything else on the subject.

Comprendo la desesperanza. El sentimiento de culpa. El saber que el mundo está roto y no puede arreglarse.

Sabes que la muerte llega a todos, y eso es aceptable. Y también sabes lo difícil que es vivir con la culpa de no haber evitado lo evitable. Lo inaceptable es el remordimiento, una copa amarga que se bebe día a día.

Tales son las trampas de la memoria, tal el peso de los pecados que no cometimos, pero que expiamos.

Yeah, I know. I was a jerk. An idiot. You can't say anything to me that I haven't already said to myself.