Curtis Sittenfeld Quotes

Let this single hour atone For the theft of all of me

That's what troubles me: I should like to suffer more for the expiation of my sins.

Remember when i slept with my head in a puddle at your feet? It was humility, or atonement. later your ankle was a pillow and finally you pulled me up and in my sleep i placed your hand above my heart, like i forgot i didn't live there anymore

If you did something in 1975 that you deeply regret and that you now can recognize as having been profoundly irresponsible, for example, the only way to be lifted out of deep regret and the pain over it is through atonement - through the kind of remorse that leads to genuine atonement, the making of amends, and forgiveness of self and others.

I reached the point in my life now that I understand as human beings we've all done some very horrible things to other human beings, and at some point, I came to grips with the fact that whoever murdered my friend is now an adult, and all I can truly hopefully pray for is that in murdering my friend it bettered their life. And I don't mean that they gained things, but just that they grew up, they regret their decision, they found a place of spirituality or God or whatever people call it.

I recognize that by saying that I'm deeply sorry, it might not be enough and sufficient to address the pain and the hurt that I have caused you. Therefore, I want to ask for your forgiveness for my actions, and I hope you can find it in your heart to forgive me.

You have punished me long enough, you have punished yourself long enough. Return to me. I beg.

Please understand. Please forgive me. I prayed every day for you to be alive, until hope became painful. Don't hate me. I still love you.

I regret and suffer those losses, but it's God's will. He will pardon me if I committed excesses, but I don't think I did.

If nothing else, there's comfort in recognising that no matter how much we fail and sin, death will limit our suffering.

Guilt is perhaps the most painful companion of death.

You have to be a little contrite to get redemption.

Who made the world I cannot tell; 'Tis made, and here am I in hell. My hand, though now my knuckles bleed, I never soiled with such a deed.

I am making amends and seeking forgiveness. My only hope is that some good can come out of my situation.

When lovely woman stoops to folly, and finds too late that men betray, what charm can soothe her melancholy, what art can wash her guilt away?

One makes mistakes; that is life. But it is never a mistake to have loved.

The essence of romantic love is that wonderful beginning, after which sadness and impossibility may become the rule.

When we lose one we love, our bitterest tears are called forth by the memory of hours when we loved not enough.

The prisoner is not the one who has commited a crime, but the one who clings to his crime and lives it over and over.

I understand that I will be made to suffer for my actions.

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

Sin is, somehow, at the root of all human misery. Sin is what keeps us from God and from life. It is in the face of every battered woman, the cry of every neglected child, the despair of every addict, the death of every victim of every war.

Why love if losing hurts so much? I have no answers anymore; only the life I have lived. The pain now is part of the happiness then.

One can't relive one's life. Forgiveness is not what's difficult; one's always too ready to forgive. And it does no good, that's obvious.

I am much chastened and profoundly remorseful. I can only hope that the Almighty and those whom I have wronged will forgive me my trespasses.