Quotes About Remorse

I'm sorry I ever thought about eating you.

For the most part fraud in the end secures for its companions repentance and shame.

I would give almost anything I have to reverse the course of my life in the last three years…. I have deceived my friends, and I had millions of them.

Not a word of remorse for the inhumanity inflicted during their conquest and occupation of most of Asia. Not a word of apology for the misery and suffering the emperor's military forces had spread across the Pacific and Asia. Not a mention of the navy men lying in a metal tomb on the bottom of Pearl Harbor. The emperor had stopped the fighting to save civilization. Even as he spoke, prisoners of war were being tormented and executed by units of the Japanese armed forces.

Ever catch yourself in the middle of saying something you know you'll regret? Something so mean you know you should stop immediately but some part of your brain kicks in and won't let you stop?

Are you by yourself, darling? I can't bear the thought of you dying alone. No, mum, I'm with my friend. I'm with Courtney... Courtney... He called out her name. 'Courtney,' he said. 'I'm sorry...' But Courtney was already dead.

Remorse is the poison of life.

You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life.

I'm sorry," she said and reached over and squeezed his leg. She couldn't help but think that she'd ruined his life. It didn't yet occur to her to wonder about having ruined her own.

You will regret the small thing you didn't say for the rest of your life. Say thank you.

When you screw someone's life, the least you can do is leave the person alone.

It's when I have to acknowledge the past and all of those nameless, faceless people I'd assassinated, that I unravel inside.

Weekend forecast: mostly drunk with a chance of regret

Regrets — those ghosts of actions that haunt our thoughts

Guilt is a blanket of stones.

a slap and a night's disgrace. But when he sneaked into the kitchen and stole a hamburger patty from the table he got a trouncing. He

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said.

My mouth tastes like all the things I should have said. I don't want to be this way, but I have been since you left.

Fuck Myself, and I am dirty dick sucker

Some anthropologists divide cultures into shame cultures and guilt cultures. According to this perspective, shame is an outward mechanism, and guilt is an inward one which alludes to a human mechanism that produces strong feelings of remorse when someone has done something wrong, to the point that he or she needs to rectify the matter.

Everyone facing death, especially premature death, like us, will be kicking themselves about each wasted hour.

I am utterly alone with myself, I see clearly that from now on I shall always be utterly alone with myself. I am somewhere where neither love nor friendship can reach, I am in hell … I have sinned for a brief while and I am being punished for it, incredibly severely, for a long time! But one should have known, before one sinned, how severe the punishment would be. One should have been warned beforehand, then one would not have sinned …

I am speaking now of the highest duty we owe our friends, the noblest, the most sacred--that of keeping their own nobleness, goodness, pure and incorrupt...If we let our friend become cold and selfish and exacting without remonstrance, we are no true lover, no true friend.

The bitterest tears shed over graves are for words left unsaid and deeds left undone.