Quotes About Remorse

If there is any fruitless mental torment which is greater than that of jealousy it is perhaps remorse. Even the pains of loss may be less searching; and often of course these agonies combine, as now they did for me. I say remorse not repentance. I doubt if I have ever experienced repentance in a pure form; perhaps it does not exist in a pure form. Remorse contains guilt, but helpless hopeless guilt which knows of no cure for the painful bite.

Everything in his life now seemed to signal: too late.

Forgive me for not being able to be with you.

I'm sorry I was awful. I'm so full of terrors.

It had occurred, it had happened , and could never in his life be unhappened, never removed, a huge deadly black scar lasting forever.

I saw through a black veil of misery and remorse and indecision and fear; and there was a feeling as if I carried a small leaden coffin in the place of my heart.

I felt at times, it is hard to describe this, almost mad with guilt, with a sort of general guilt about my whole life.

Anyway, as you say, what the hell. I know, I've been to hell, I've seen it, I've been shown round. I'll kill myself. You'll see, you'll be sorry.

The best you can hope for is a little peace and not too much remorse. Thoughts at peace under an English heaven.

Her anger was against herself, for her frivolity and her blindness.

What's done can't be undone.

Remorse begets reform.

The beginning of compunction is the beginning of a new life.

We have left undone those things which we ought to have done; and we have done those things which we ought not to have done.

And all that you are sorry for is what you haven't done.

And they said one to another, We are verily guilty concerning our brother, in that we saw the anguish of his soul, when he besought us, and we would not hear.

My only advice is don't tattoo some guy's name on yourself. Ever. I've done it twice. Twice! I'm in the process of getting both removed. It's the most painful thing imaginable.

I've twice accidentally stolen something, and both times I went back and paid for them when I realized I had done it.

Girls begin to have second thoughts about the violence. Studies show they feel a considerable amount of guilt about it. They feel bad later and want to apologize.

What's my greatest fear? I don't know; I have lots of fears. Regret, I don't want to have any regrets; that makes me scared.

There is no flag large enough to cover the shame of killing innocent people.

Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war.

A thousand years will pass and the guilt of Germany will not be erased

A Bayonet's contrition is nothing to the dead.