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Quotes About Remorse

I would have given my own life if I could have undone the killing of white men by my people.
~ Chief Joseph
I admired my father very much... at the age of sixteen. But now I see that he was a brutal and cruel man, - but not without remorse, and that was what tortured us, his alternations.
~ Delmore Schwartz
There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess.
~ H. G. Wells
Some things are not forgiveable. Deliberate cruelty is not forgiveable. It is the most unforgiveable thing in my opinion, and the one thing in which I have never, ever been guilty.
~ Tennessee Williams
And there was no way to unsay words you'd blurted out, no matter how sorry you were.
~ Terri Farley
Somehow, I feel almost blinded myself. And I am forever left to wonder Whether telling you how truly special You were Might have made a difference.
~ Terri Fields
Commit a sin twice, and it will not seem to thee a sin.
~ The Talmud
Remorse is the pain of sin.
~ Theodore Parker
Though true repentance be never too late, yet late repentance is seldom true.
~ Thomas Brooks
The ghostly consciousness of wrong.
~ Thomas Carlyle
A man wrote a letter to the IRS saying, "I have been unable to sleep knowing that I have cheated on my income tax. I have understated my taxable income and have enclosed a check for $150. If I still can't sleep, I will send the rest.
~ Thomas Cathcart
Guilt, therefore, I do not acknowledge: and, if I did, it is possible that I might still resolve on the present act of confession, in consideration of the service which I may thereby render to the whole class of opium-eaters.
~ Thomas de Quincey
We spend so much time making up for things we failed to say..
~ Nicholas Sparks
She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything
~ Nick Hornby
He died alone because he was too embarrassed to phone anyone.
~ Nicole Krauss
But. I knew. Believe me when I say, I knew it then as I know it now. It pains me to think how I never told you, and also to think of all you could have been.
~ Nicole Krauss
A fault confessed is half redressed.
~ Nikos Kazantzakis
He felt the same way about pulling teeth as he did about amputating limbs, hating to take away something he was never going to be able to put back.
~ Noah Gordon
I'm sorry, baby. I'm so sorry. What a terrible thing. Poor Roy. Poor Roy. The man was useless as tits on a bull, but he didn't deserve to die like that." "Mama!" "People who say not to speak ill of the dead are hypocrites, because you can take it to the bank they're thinking ill.
~ Nora Roberts
Imaginei que ele ia perceber o erro horrível que cometera, que rastejaria para mim, a suplicar que o aceitasse de volta. É do tipo de coisa que parece que nos daria satisfação, quando pensamos nisso, sabem? Mas deixem-me que vos diga, quando acontece mesmo... ou quando parece acontecer... é simplesmente horrível.
~ Nora Roberts
Sorry, mom. Sorry, God.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
If the living are haunted by the dead, then the dead are haunted by their own mistakes.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
I'm the dick that killed Cassie Lynn Wright.
~ Chuck Palahniuk
It is what you haven't done that will torment you
~ Claire Messud