Quotes About Remorse

I don't understand how an adult can write those last two sentences and not want to kill themselves for being so despicable.

The apology from the arsonist takes up space that could otherwise be used to remove one's self from the fire. HStanbrough

I sort of......accidentally....tore it to pieces. And threw it in the fire. Well, he was mine after all.

Wrongs done could not be righted, but at least they were not still being done.

Look, Chuck, I haven't always been a fat old man. I sowed my wild oats, but there were some girls, after they got what they wanted, who were ashamed of what they did and wanted to forget that they couldn't wait to get their hands on my plow. You know what I mean? They'd say some crazy things.

I get sad, when I think of my own wicked acts, although I supposed if I weren't sad about them it would mean I didn't care. I'm glad that I care, so I'm a little happy that I'm sad.

I will suddenly remember this thing I did, and think to myself, Was it really necessary? Was it absolutely necessary to steal that sugar bowl from Esmé Squalor?

It is one thing to think horrible thoughts, but it is another to behave atrociously, as you know. You can easily think of times when you were horrible, and when I say easily I mean it is very easy to remember these times and hard to stop remembering. They ache in the brain and the body, these shameful memories, like a broken bone that has never quite healed right.

A világon a legnehezebb dolgok közé tartozik a megbánás. Ha valami történik az emberrel, és Å' nem megfelelÅ'en viselkedik, akkor ez az emlék éveken át bánthatja, de akkor már késÅ' azon gyötrÅ'dni, hogyan kellett volna helyesen cselekedni.

One of the most difficult things to think about in life is one's regrets. Something will happen to you, and you will do the wrong thing, and for years afterward, you will wish you had done something different.

I shouldn't have hit him at all but it was only a little jab in the belly and it helped him to sober up still more.

What would it mean to murder the only person in the world whom you loved?

Jack turned red,I kinda let a princess die. His grandfather groaned. You do realize that's not a good thing to do, right? the old man asked. So I'm told.

My object then, replied Darcy, was to show you, by every civility in my power, that I was not so mean as to resent the past; and I hoped to obtain your forgiveness, to lessen your ill opinion, by letting you see that your reproofs had been attended to. How soon any other wishes introduced themselves I can hardly tell, but I believe in about half an hour after I had seen you.

She hated herself more than she could express.

Well, my comfort is, I am sure Jane will die of a broken heart, and then he will be sorry for what he has done.

Oh! how heartily did she grieve over every ungracious sensation she had ever encouraged, every saucy speech she had ever directed towards him. For herself she was humbled; but she was proud of him.

Daddy thinks history starts fresh every day, every minute, that time itself begins with the feelings he's having right now. That's how he keeps betraying us, why he roars at us with such conviction. We have to stand up to that, and say, at least to ourselves, that what he's done before is still with us, still right here in this room until there's true remorse.

When I was young, I got a lot of tattoos, and now they don't look so good. One time, I got drunk and got Eisenhower tattooed on my balls, but now he looks like Orville Redenbacher.

He's a Stone Dead gang member. He'll be hanging with the other Deads, and the Deads own the fifth block of Stark. Their color is purple. Their name is significant. These losers are dead inside. They've grown up with so much violence it's normal to them. They're like zombies. They feel no remorse. You do not want to go up against one of them. If you find this guy I want you to call me, and I'll send out the SWAT team..

The stupid things you say in the rain, that can't ever be washed away.

I felt my guilt like a brand.

I was bad, I had done bad things, I had hurt people, and the worst of it was, I didn't want to stop. Blue

O conscience, upright and stainless, how bitter a sting to thee is a little fault!