T. S. Eliot Quotes

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

True penitence condemns to silence. What a man is ready to recall he would be willing to repeat.

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.

If I had killed Crow off I can think of least six novels I would never have written, 400,000 words' worth of very necessary experience.

Begin thus from the first act, and proceed; and, in conclusion, at the ill which thou hast done, be troubled, and rejoice for the good.

Mistakes you can learn from; sins stay with you forever.

Sin carries in it its own misery.

It was not the path I was to take. Because of my deeds, I will never know peace again.

We know that we've done and said things that hurt people. Inflicting pain on others wasn't the goal, but it was one of the outcomes. We wish it weren't so, and regret that hurt.

Sister, I won't ask for forgiveness, my sins are all I have.

There is not, perhaps, to a mind well instructed, a more painful occurrence, than the death of one we have injured without reparation.

How is it right to slip free of an old skin and walk away from the scene of the crime? We came, we saw, we took away and we left behind, we must be allowed our anguish and our regrets.

Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime

Nothing spoils a confession like repentance.

Only the dead can be forgiven; But when I think of that my tongue's a stone.

Sometimes the sins you haven't committed are all you have left to hold onto.

I am not sorry for my crime.

Mercy should make us ashamed, wrath afraid to sin.

Words will not be able to ever express how sorry I am for this, and I have profound regret and sorrow for the multitude of mistakes and harm I have caused.

To truly repent of a big thing, you have to go into it with your heart open and force yourself to deal with it at that level and to apologize to God.

I hope when I'm on my deathbed, people forgive me, because there is a lot to forgive.

To admit regret is to understand that we are fallible - that there are powers beyond us. To admit regret is to lose control not only of a difficult past but of the very story we tell about our present. To admit sincere and abiding regret is one of our greatest but unspoken contemporary sins.