Lisa Unger Quotes

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

The extent of one man's guilt may be defined by how much of it is experienced by the party he injured.

I wrote an apology for the harm I'd caused, but I also knew that an apology could never undo any of it.

If I got a beating for something, I usually deserved it.

I've learned a lot from the investigations and the trial. It's all my fault.

We all do the wrong thing. And then we have to wake up the next morning and live with the fact that we have done things that are wrong.

Perhaps this is just punishment for those who have been heartless, to understand only when nothing can be undone.

But [your crime] will be there, one hundred times denied, always there, dragging itself behind you. Then you will finally know that you have committed your life with one throw of the die, once and for all, and there is nothing you can do but tug our crime along until your death. Such is the law, just and unjust, of repentance. Then we will see what will become of your young pride.

Perhaps nothing ud be a lesson to us if it didn't come too late. It's well we should feel as life's a reckoning we can't make twice over; there's no real making amends in this world, any more nor you can mend a wrong subtraction by doing your addition right.

My actions and reactions, and the way I treated certain scenarios, were way out of line, so I deserved some punishment.

A word that has been said may be unsaid-it is but air. But when a deed is done, it cannot be undone, nor can our thoughts reach out to all the mischiefs that may follow.

Thoughts can be revised. Deeds cannot.

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

Once you take a life, that's it. I don't even deserve to be here.

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.

Of course I have regrets; I'm not stupid.

When God hands you a gift, he also hands you a whip; and the whip is intended for self-flagellation solely.

I was probably a terrible husband, but I pride myself on being a good dad.

There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.

You wont hear anything from me that says I didn't kill David. I did kill him.

I've gone through that with my mother and father and here I was in a similar situation. I've wronged her and I've wronged the family. Because when these things happen, it doesn't just happen to you, it happens to the people around you and the family.

Their mothers had finally caught up to them and been proven right. There were consequences after all but they were the consequences to things you didn't even know you'd done.

When I got the money, the whole burden descended on me, and the realization of what I had done. And it led me then to make the further step, a change of loyalties.

I have many regrets, and I'm sure everyone does. The stupid things you do, you regret... if you have any sense, and if you don't regret them, maybe you're stupid.

I'll probably be punished for hard living.