Quotes About Remorse

There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul.

Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it

Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.

That deed is not well done of which a man must repent, and the reward of which he receives crying and with a tearful face.

One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence.

The man with a clear conscience probably has a poor memory.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I just know that every man I kill the farther away from home I feel.

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all.

Michael O'Sullivan was my great friend. But I don't ever remember telling him that. The words that are spoken at a funeral are spoken too late for the man who is dead.

Let guilty men remember, their black deeds Do lean on crutches made of slender reeds.

You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves.

Successful avengers, who are good men at heart, will always be saddened.

A man could spend the rest of his life trying to remember what he shouldn't have said.

He had tattooed all of the names of the men he had killed on his body...unfortunately he had run out of room.

Evil indeed is the man who has not one woman to mourn him.

Oh, man, oh how I wish I didn't smoke or drink to reason with my head.

How shall the murdered man convince his assassin he will not haunt him.

She is sadder and sadder, and for a man there is no balm more soothing than the sadness he has caused a woman.

Actually I didn't shoot a man in Reno just to watch him die, but he could tell I was extremely cross.

I never dreamed of any enormity greater than I have committed. I never knew, and never shall know, a worse man than myself.

You took too much man, too much, too much.

...no gift will ever buy back a man's love when you have removed his self-love.