Quotes About Remorse

Absolution is not the same as understanding.

Ser una mentirosa no es fácil. Para empezar, has de tener muy presente el hilo de todas tus mentiras. Recordar exactamente qué has dicho y a quién se los ha dicho. Porque esa primera mentira siempre te conduce a la siguiente. Nunca hay una sola mentira.

Peace visits not the guilty mind.

Peace visits not the guilty mind. (Nemo Malus Felix)

KING (to Sakuntala): O fair lady! The tear drop that once stood trembling on your lower lip -and I watched uncaring, lost in delusion- while it still clings to your gently-curving lashes, I shall now wipe away, my beloved, to free myself of remorse.

The criminal activities I was involved in, I think that they were wrong and that they were dangerous.

I should never have left Italy and Juve.

I should still be in jail.

I know I am not only the bad conscience of the Nazis. I am also the bad conscience of the Jews. Because what I have taken up as my duty was everybody's duty.

I really didn't mean to hurt anybody. I liked John Lennon.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

I should have shot you when I had the chance.

definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.

How true, lamentably true. I'm sorry, Father. I do not love my neighbor as myself.

When you hate yourself, you don't neglect your responsibilities. When you hate yourself, you never forget what you did

"Like a dog!" he said. It seemed as if his shame would live on after him.

I've been very self-indulgent and weird and I'm sorry. But I'd really like to die.

I'm sorry for taking your life, friend.

Another dirt clod smashed against the wall in a gritty burst. And another. He could not throw them hard enough. Part of him wished somebody was throwing the dirt clods at him. Or beating him, or locking him in jail. He had no means to express how remorseful he felt, no way to pay for what he had done. And no way to fix the mistake.

Because if I accept that Elend bears no guilt for what his people did to mine, then I must admit to being a monster for the things that I did to them.

There was nothing more bitter than a soul who had had its chance and thrown it away.

I'm sorry I drove you to suicide. Here's some bread.

que nadie ha lamentado nunca darle una sacudida de más, pero te garantizo que todo hombre lamenta darle una de menos».

When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace.