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Quotes About Remorse

Benden yana olduÄŸundan sesin K?rd?m onun kalbini, Elimin içinde tuttuÄŸumdan Yeniden ellerini. Ne bir söz, ne de baÅŸka bir ÅŸey Onarabilir bunu --- Bir zamanlar dostum olan Åžimdi yabanc? bana.
~ James Joyce
I would almost forget about Ida Durbin. But a sin of omission, if indeed that's what it was, can be like the rusty head of a hatchet buried in the heartwood of a tree -- it eventually finds the teeth of a whirling saw blade.
~ James Lee Burke
I wasn't a criminal, but I was genuinely insane. My greatest enemy is sleep. I see the men and boys I killed many years ago in a foreign land, and I'm filled with sorrow. Have you had those experiences, sir? Please tell me that is indeed the case and that you wish to get them out of your life. Can you do that for me, sir?
~ James Lee Burke
I went to the bathroom in my pants. That's what you done, man.
~ James Lee Burke
When she got home, Bert came out to meet her, and took her into the den, where Letty was trying to quiet Veda. Letty went back to the kitchen, and Veda broke into loud sobs. Over and over, she kept saying: "I owed her a nickel! Oh, Mother, I cheated her out of it, and I meant to pay it back, but—I owed her a nickel!
~ James M. Cain
Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness.
~ Henry B. Eyring
Everybody is probably guilty of something. I'm sure that if anyone looked into my heart long enough, they could say, you know, 'Bill had some unkind thoughts back in second grade.'
~ William T. Vollmann
Only good people feel guilt.
~ Laura Schlessinger
While 'Django Unchained' presents a morally stark universe, where people do and say evil things with no remorse, it also luxuriates in the license that such evil provides.
~ Ari Melber
I think I tried to steal a Mars bar once from a shop but then I went and put it back.
~ Daniel Radcliffe
I'm sure there are a lot of things I should have done differently. But I don't think I've stepped on anyone along the way. If I have, I didn't mean to.
~ Patti Page
You want to know about the place called Hell?" he asked the curious animal. "There is no Hell," he said. "Hell is in here." He touched the raw, pink skin of his chest with the tips of his fingers. "And it will forever brun inside me for what I have done.
~ Thomas E. Sniegoski
Hell is truth seen too late.
~ Thomas Hobbes
A guilty conscience, urged with the thought Of former evils, easily cannot err.
~ Thomas Kyd
In mourning the plumage, he forgot the dying bird
~ Thomas Paine
Upon the whole, Mystery, Miracle, and Prophecy, are appendages that belong to fabulous and not to true religion. They are the means by which so many Lo heres! and Lo theres! have been spread about the world, and religion been made into a trade. The success of one impostor gave encouragement to another, and the quieting salvo of doing some good by keeping up a pious fraud protected them from remorse.
~ Thomas Paine
The pleasure of sin is soon gone, but the sting remains.
~ Thomas Watson
The eye is for both seeing and weeping. Sin must first be seen before it can be wept for.
~ Thomas Watson
Because of multiple aspirations, I have defied the tragic tale of suffering And have taken instructions to subdue self-grasping; Now, even if I die, I have no remorse.
~ Thupten Jinpa
Part self-pity, part shame, part anger, part regret.
~ Tilly Bagshawe
She started to try to cover the sad marks of what she had done. Love and large-hearted giving, when added together, can leave deep marks. It is never easy to cover these marks, dear friends, never easy.
~ O. Henry
There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be conscious that we possess decided ability for some particular calling, and to be compelled by circumstances, year after year, to be chained to drudgery which the heart loathes, requires supreme courage.
~ Orison Swett Marden
How many people delay the kindness, the expression of love, until the person is dead, beyond their reach, and then try to atone for a neglected past by flowers and tears at the funeral!
~ Orison Swett Marden
He'd undone all he could. You can be sorry, and you can be forgiven, but you can't call back the futures that your bad decisions lost
~ Orson Scott Card