Friedrich Durrenmatt Quotes

I want to say again to the American people how profoundly sorry I am for what I said and did to trigger these events and the great burden they have imposed on the Congress and the American people.

Griffin Bell later apologized to me for that decision.

I cannot take back one word or action; the past does not change for anyone.

Avoid what will require an apology.

I deeply regret any harm, or any perceived harm, that I may have done to anyone by any behaviour of mine.

I regret what happened. I saw no other possibility to achieve my goal. It was not hooliganism.

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 apologise to people when I need to.

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

I am better able to retract what I did not say than what I did.

You can say the opposite of something you've said but you can't do the opposite of something you've done.

I said what I said, but I shouldn’t have said it.

When you make a mistake—a big mistake, you’re going to have to apologize—a lot!

I apologized for my mistakes.

If you had special powers, it wouldn't be all fun and games. There would be regrets for things you've done.

It's easy to make mistakes. It's living with the consequences of them that's the hardest.

Do your duty today and repent tomorrow.

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

From thinking proceeds speaking; thence to acting is often but a single step. But how irrevocable and tremendous!

'As you have made your bed, so you must lie on it'; which again is simply a lie. If I have made my bed uncomfortable, please God I will make it again.

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?

There's no question that I've done wrong. I take full responsibility for having done wrong. I will regret for the rest of my life the pain and the harm that I've caused to others. But I did not break the law.

In my divorce, I stood up and said to my ex-wife, 'Hey, I messed up. This had nothing to do with you. I didn't understand what marriage was. I cheated. I was wrong. We couldn't fix it; it got worse. I stepped away because I didn't want it to get any worse. You're the mother of my kids - I don't want to hate you.'