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Quotes About Remorse

Then, having finished with his gesture of remorse, he sat down, like any decent man who has been deeply wronged, and planned murder.
~ Clive Barker
Eu não sabia o que estava a perder', disse Harvey. 'Ah...', disse Hood, suavemente 'mas não é sempre assim que as coisas se passam? Há coisas que nos deslizam pelos dedos e só quando se vão embora é que nos arrependemos. Mas aquilo que se vai embora não volta, Harvey Swick!
~ Clive Barker
You've got blood on your hands, and you smell of coitus.
~ Clive Barker
You cut up a thing that's alive and beautiful to find out how it's alive and why it's beautiful and before you know it, it's neither of those things, and you're standing there with blood on your face and tears in your sight and only the terrible ache of guilt to show for it.
~ Clive Barker
Two big bottles of this and you wake up in the morning with a pile of vomit in your slippers and six hours pregnant.
~ Colin Bateman
Grigor, of course, was in bed, having heaped enough blame on himself for his son's death that he could barley rise under the weight
~ Colin Meloy
He ate every miserable spoonful and ever since it struck him that adults are always trying to buy off children to make them forget their bad actions.
~ Colson Whitehead
They don't give gold bracelets for regrets.
~ Colson Whitehead
If there is any power of righteousness in Heaven, you will drink to the dregs the cup of punishment amid sea rocks and as you suffer cry Dido againa and again. Though far, yet I shall be near, haunting you with flames of blackest pitch. And when death's chill has parted my body from its breath, wherever you go my spectre will be there,. You will have your punishment, you villain. And I shall hear, the news will reach me deep in the world of death.
~ Virgil
He is precisely the young man to fall headlong in love and repent it for the rest of his life.
~ Virginia Woolf
a little downy girl still wearing poppies still eating popcorn in the colored gloam where tawny Indians took paid croppers because you stole her from her wax-browed and dignified protector spitting into his heavy-lidded eye ripping his flavid toga and at dawn leaving the hog to roll upon his new discomfort the awfulness of love and violets remorse despair while you took a dull doll to pieces and threw its head away because of all you did because of all I did not you have to die
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Dying, dying, Lolita Haze, Of hate and remorse I'm dying. And again my hairy fist I raise, And again I hear you crying.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
L'autre soir un air froid d'opéra m'alita; Son félé -- bien fol est qui s'y fie! Il neige, le décor s'écroule, Lolita! Lolita, qu'ai-je fait de ta vie? Dying, dying, Lolita Haze, Of hate and remorse, I'm dying. And again my hairy fist I raise, And again I hear you crying.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
I have hurt too much too many bodies with my twisted poor hands to be proud of them
~ Vladimir Nabokov
Why are you pulling away from me now? Why are you acting as if I don't mean anything to you?" He held her gaze, his own haunted and filled with remorse. "Because it isn't fair to you, letting you think I could ever be any kind of mate worthy of you." … "I'd resisted the temptation for a very long time, Melena. And it was easy. Until I found you.
~ Lara Adrian
I Should've walked away. Now, it's too late. It's too fucking late for both of us
~ Lara Adrian
A lot of people mistake a short memory for a clear conscience.
~ larson doug
Gabriel Squeezed His Eyes Shut. In the distance He Heard shay Screaming His Nam. What Had he done.? The answer Slammed Into His Mind. He Had Fallen in Love with Her. It had Clouded His Judgment. He LOVED Her, HEART, SOUL, And BODY. And He Had Sentenced Her To Death.
~ Laura J. Burns
I can't think of anything worse after a night of drinking than waking up next to someone and not being able to remember their name, or how you met, or why they're dead.
~ Laura Kightlinger
throwing out "I sorry" as if it were confetti, her private little parade of destruction rolling past, leaving Eliza to clean up all of the mess. They had tried hard to teach their children the importance of genuine remorse, what it was to say and mean "I'm sorry.
~ Laura Lippman
Le han dictado pena máxima: sesenta años. Suena infinito y sin embargo es poco, no hay vida que alcance para pagar lo que hizo.
~ Laura Restrepo
She was sorry she hadn't been braver when she'd had the chance.
~ Laura Ruby
Oh, baby girl," he says with a sigh. "I am so, so sorry.
~ Laura Wiess
The thing about loving someone, is that yelling at them only feels good while you're doing it -- as soon as they're gone, all you want to do is take it all back
~ Lauren Barnholdt