Henry Fonda Quotes

Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.

I carry lots of guilt.

Guilt is a supreme waste of time and energy.

Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.

Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.

A man is sorry to be honest for nothing.

Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.

How blunt are all the arrows of thy quiver in comparison with those of guilt.

Nothing is more wretched than the mind of a man conscious of guilt.

How like herrings and onions our vices are in the morning after we have committed them.

I feel terrible about it. Part of it is the horror of what happened and part of it is my guilt about being a part of it.

Your people invented guilt, but my people perfected it.

I'm not actually sure if guilt is an emotion.

I have never done anything which I feel guilty about or wish I had not done it.

I'm ashamed of what I did.

I am sadly afraid that I must have done some wicked thing.

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.

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

Guilt: the gift that keeps on giving.

I'd feel guilty just doing gags.

I apologize for nothing.

I have no apologies.

It's a horrible thing to realize what you've done.

I didn't have anything to apologize for.

Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.