Guilt and Remorse Quotes

Blood will have blood.

Phychical pain is more easily borne than physical; and if I had my choice between a bad conscience and a bad tooth, I should choose the former.

You make a deal. You figure out how much sin you can live with.

I burned down our house, and that put a strain on our family.

I have sinned terribly, and I do not know what punishment awaits me.

All things truly wicked start from an innocence.

O how the darkness do crowd up, one against the other, in ye hearts! What fear ye more that what ye have wroughten?

It is easy to kill when you don't see your victim.

There were definitely times when I regretted ever being Batman.

Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death?

It was my duty to shoot the enemy, and I don't regret it. My regrets are for the people I couldn't save: Marines, soldiers, buddies. I'm not naive, and I don't romanticize war. The worst moments of my life have come as a SEAL. But I can stand before God with a clear conscience about doing my job.

Conscience ... seldom comes to a man's aid while he is in the zenith of health and revelling in pomp and luxury upon illgotten spoils. It is generally the last act of his life, and it comes too late to be of much service to others here, or to himself hereafter.

As a son and as a father, there are still various things that I haven't done as well as I should have - that's my dilemma and regret.

I'm not a blokey bloke. I don't take myself too seriously. But that doesn't stop me being a bad person sometimes and doing things I regret. Such as having a child with someone you've split up with, then falling in love and wanting to spend the rest of your life with someone else. That's quite difficult.

Sara could commit adultery at one end and weep for her sins at the other, and enjoy both operations at once.

Yet who would have thought the old man to have had so much blood in him? - Lady Macbeth