Quotes About Remorse

Repentance is accepted remorse.

A word and a stone let go cannot be recalled

Self-justification is the enemy of repentance.

Hear, O God. Alas, for man's sin! So saith man, and Thou pitiest him; for Thou madest him, but sin is in him Thou madest not. Who remindeth me of the sins of my infancy? for in Thy sight none is pure from sin, not even the infant whose life is but a day upon the earth.

Tausend Jahre kaufen nicht zurück, was eine einzige Sekunde versäumt.

it is always a relief to the conscience if one can apportion some measure of guilt to the person one has betrayed.

I have often asked myself, I have wondered to the point of madness, why a moment's foolish action on a single occasion should matter. But we cannot shake doff what we so vaguely call conscience

No guilt is forgotten so long as the conscience still knows of it.

Ho perduto la donna che ho amato senza lottare, senza credere in me e in lei. Poco importa quello che ho imparato dopo, non conta quanto io sia cambiato, allora commisi questo delitto, il delitto di lasciarla sola.

We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life.

What's done cannot be undone.

Nothing that had ever happened to him, not the shooting of Oyster, or the piteous muttering expiration of John Wesley Shannenhouse, or the death of his father, or internment of his mother and grandfather, not even the drowning of his beloved brother, had ever broken his heart quite as terribly as the realization, when he was halfway to the rimed zinc hatch of the German station, that he was hauling a corpse behind him

The exaltation of understanding; then understanding's bottomless regret.

Bosch now recognized it as an action of regret. The killer covered his victim's face so he would no longer have to see it.

Through it all he was haunted by only one thing. His daughter. Not having had final words with her. Not being able to watch her prosper as an adult. It tore him up to think that he would never see or speak to her again. Guilt overtook him as he acknowledged that he had squandered the past several months as Maddie's father trying to save a woman who didn't want to be saved. In the darkest hours before dawn, hot tears of regret had rolled down his cheeks.

There is no sense in being haunted by good intentions.

He hadn't remotely imagined that one morning he'd check his text messages and find love to have been lost, with approximately the degree of remorse one would feel over the loss of a pair of sunglasses.

I had a feeling of shame about my grief, as if I was making false amends for the bitterness I felt towards him when he was alive.

THE LESS OF a man I became, and the more of an automaton, so the dreams and half-memories ceased to plague me. It was as if they had deliberately driven me into this mindless rôle; so long as I continued to be a creature without remorse or conscience they would reward me with their absence. If I again showed signs of ordinary Humanity, then they would punish me with their presence.

After the first blush of sin comes its indifference.

Remorse is the pain of sin.

I'm not proud of killing, of being responsible for the death of a single person. I never will be.

I don't know a single person who doesn't regret the things that they did to hurt their parents, or the things they didn't say to them.

I have a responsibility, and it's something that I did wrong, and if I could personally apologize to every single person that has lost a loved one from drunk driving I would.