Quotes About Remorse

The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above all, remorse for lost opportunities. Mithra-Grandchamp is the women we were unable to love, the chances we failed to seize, the moments of happiness we allowed to drift away. Today it seems to me that my whole life was nothing but a string of those small near misses

It frequently happens that a villainous action does not torment us the instant we commit it, but on recollection, and sometimes even after a number of years have elapsed, for the remembrance of crimes is not to be extinguished.

It makes me feel very much what I believe I have said in some work, that remorse sleeps during a prosperous fate and grows sour in adversity

Mattie was right about one thing. I should have seen it all coming. I should have seen how much you were hurting, should have seen what Seymour meant to you, should have stopped him from leaving, should have spoken up, done something. If I had seen it coming, we could've fixed whatever was wrong, you and me, we could have made it work. But I didn't. So we can't. Jane was right. I was a danger to you. I never should have come back.

Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse.

J'étais un enfant, ce monstre qu'ils fabriquent avec leurs regrets.

And you, fathers and mothers, loving par-ents, lower your eyes humbly. They are there, your dead children, stretching their frail arms towards you, and all the happiness you denied them, all the tortures you inflicted, weigh like lead on their sad, childish, unforgiving hearts.

The evil-doer mourns in the next; he mourns in both. He mourns and suffers when he sees the evil of his own work.

My natural instinct after doing something shameful is not to rush into the street boasting about it but to put on dark glasses and head for the next county, hoping nobody notices I've been in the neighborhood.

To have guilt you've got to earn guilt, but sometimes when you earn it, you don't feel the guilt you ought to have. And that's what The Firebombing is about.

he understood that in killing Arch Bedsole he had killed a part of each life the man had affected.

I'm the girl nobody knows until she commits suicide. Then suddenly everyone had a class with her.

And I'm a bad boy 'cause I don't even miss her. I'm a bad boy for breakin her heart

Deane carried the blood of so many Aboriginal people on his hands it could never be scrubbed away, not from the man himself or the town that carried his name.

I remember the dog at home, when I was a girl; the one that killed chickens. They tied a dead hen around his neck and he carried it around with him all day until he just lay there unmoving with his eyes shut in a morass of shame. It was cruel. There's nothing so hideously easy as giving someone a bad conscience.

The promises made by a guilty conscience acknowledge and settle no debts...

Given in love. Defiled by remorse.

I'm terribly sorry, Fergal." "What for? Marrying him? I should think you would be, Angel.

Take inventory. Invent a story about the people you have hurt. Begin with yourself.

But —" she said, her voice swallowed by the hot air in the hushed room. "But I burnded it.

I'm sorry!" he yelped. "Sorry, sorry, sorry! I missed. Here, let me try again." She eyed him suspiciously. He looked not so much "deeply repentant," as "trying to hide his giggles.

so, what happened next will have to go down in my book of Bad Decisions, planted firmly in the chapter entitled, I have no idea what I was thinking

I should like to punish myself for having been happy before I met you!

Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able to choose between one road and another. May our YES always be a YES and our NO always be a NO. Once we have chosen our road, may we never look back nor allow our soul to be eaten away by remorse. And in order for this to be possible.