Henry Rollins Quotes

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

Apology is often the first step in correcting a wrong. Having moved for a position of saying 'I don't need forgiveness,' Mr. Trump is now taking a second look at past behaviors, things that he's said and done that he regrets. While he is not asking for forgiveness for being human, he is admitting that he's made mistakes and humbly making apologies.

In retrospect, I had a lot of shortcomings and didn't take care of the things that needed to be taken care of, and that's all my fault.

Ah! gracious Heaven gives us eyes to see our own wrong, however dim age may make them; and knees not too stiff to kneel, in spite of years, cramp, and rheumatism.

Few men would dare to read their own autobiography if all their deeds were recorded in it; few can look back upon their entire career without a blush.

I have a pretty clear picture of the whole weight of my life, and there are things that I've done that are good, and I'm proud of them. There are things that I'm really not proud of, and that they, you have to look at me with a perspective, and I try really hard to do that, to keep from thinking I'm cool and ever so smart.

The only thing worse than an active conscience is one that's retroactive.

I don't want to forgive myself. That's why I hate psychoanalysis I think if you're guilty of something you should live with it. Get rid of it - how can you get rid of a real guilt? I think people should live with it, face up to it.

The No. 1 thing you should know about me: I've always tried to put God first in my life, and I'm the first to admit I often have failed because I'm too proud and too stubborn.

Listen, not all of us are proud of what we say or do at times.

I have done so many things in my life," she said to the mirror. "Evil things, perhaps. But never unattentively, never wastefully...was I wrong?

It is better to feel repentance, than to be able to define it.

I should have been much more responsible in how I handled myself and for that am sorry.

I have not been the witness I wanted to be.

All blame is a waste of time. No matter how much fault you find with another, and regardless of how much you blame him, it will not change you. The only thing blame does is to keep the focus off you when you are looking for external reasons to explain your unhappiness or frustration. You may succeed in making another feel guilty about something by blaming him, but you won't succeed in changing whatever it is about you that is making you unhappy.

My pride and immaturity caused me to make things more of a struggle than they had to be. I can always blame others or circumstances, but the truth was that my own sinful pride led to more stress than anything else.

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?

I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.

I have offended God and mankind because my work didn't reach the quality it should have.

Every one goes astray, but the least imprudent are they who repent the soonest.

I'm a grown man. You know, I've been in a lot of scrapes, but I never felt like I got so - there are probably a lot of things I should have done that I didn't do.

My wife said to me... you never understood what we were going through back home, did you? And I didn't. And I have to confess that.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

Where I didn't have the maturity and the compassion to consider other people's needs, I did a lot of damage.

I've done a lot of things in my life that I'm not proud of.