Michael Vick Quotes

There are no words to express my sorrow and regret for the pain I have caused others by words and actions. To the people I have hurt, I am truly sorry.

My role in Palin is something that there's not a day that has gone by that I don't have regret about.

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.

I had to go to jail, which was probably the most humbling thing I've ever had to deal with in my life.

I don't talk about these things if I haven't lived them, and I've hurt people in my life. It's something I still have to think about when I sleep at night.

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

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

I don't hold any regrets whatsoever about my life besides hurting people I loved.

I felt ashamed for what I had done. I don't have any excuses. I did what I did. I take full responsibility for myself and my actions. I wouldn't pawn this off on anybody. I'm sorry it happened. And I hurt people.

When you're going off to prison for the rest of your life, a lot of people do feel the need to explain themselves to all the people they have known.

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.

All of us have made mistakes in our lives, but only some of us have had to pay for the mistakes. [By going to jail.]

None but the guilty know the withering pains of repentance.

Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart.

You do what you do and you pay for your sins and there's no such thing as what might have been.

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

Repentant tears wash out the stain of guilt.

I never did anything I'm really ashamed of.

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

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.

I've made far too many mistakes. That's the way I feel.

Is it really so difficult to tell a good action from a bad one? I think one usually knows right away or a moment afterward, in a horrid flash of regret.

No matter how many times you say you're sorry, somebody is not going to hear you.

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

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.