deep regret Quotes

Guilt is the very nerve of sorrow.

I do not forgive myself for being born. It is as if creeping into this world, I had profaned a mystery, betrayed some momentous pledge, committed a fault of nameless gravity.

Remorse weeps tears of blood.

To all those who have suffered as a consequence of our troubled past I extend my sincere thoughts and deep sympathy. With the benefit of historical hindsight we can all see things which we would wish had been done differently or not at all.

To regret deeply is to live afresh.

What if I’ve forgotten the most important thing? What if somewhere inside me there is a dark limbo where all the truly important memories are heaped and slowly turning into mud?...the thought fills me with an almost unbearable sorrow.

Sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. It's what you say when you spill a cup of coffee or throw a gutter ball when you're bowling with the girls in the league. True sorrow is as rare as true love.

The day will come, however, when they will truly know the Unification Church and me. The day will come when the truth will be known and the message of love will be taught. On that day, their regret will be deep.

It doesn't matter whether I'm judged criminal. I have a great feeling of guilt - I have a feeling that I ran after Hitler like a wildfire without reason. If I can sacrifice my life to make something good, I'd gladly do it.

It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it.

I want to express our grieve and condolences to the families of two hostages: one American, Dr. Warren Weinstein and an Italian Giovanni LaPorto who were tragically killed in a U.S. counterterrorism operation.

While Turing was dealt with under the law of the time, and we can't put the clock back, his treatment was of course utterly unfair, and I am pleased to have the chance to say how deeply sorry I and we all are for what happened to him.

Repentance can become a very, very deep phenomenon in you if you understand the responsibility. Then even a small thing, if it becomes a repentance-- not just verbal, not just on the surface; if it goes deep to the roots, if you repent from the roots; if your whole being shakes and trembles and cries, and tears come out; not only out of your eyes but out of every cell of your body, then repentance can become a transfiguration.

My dear sir, it haunted me for the rest of my life.

Regret, already sogging me down, burst its dam. It seeped into my legs, it pooled in my heart.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

I don't want to end up losing my soul.

For a moment, my heart aches for him. I should never have asked him to join me here; I should never have asked him to cross.

No nostalgia runs deeper than that for something one has never known and now cannot obtain.

True repentance is no light matter. It is a thorough change of heart about sin, a change showing itself in godly sorrow and humiliation - in heartfelt confession before the throne of grace - in a complete breaking off from sinful habits, and an abiding hatred of all sin. Such repentance is the inseparable companion of saving faith in Christ.

Real repentance means coming not only to be sorry for the consequences of sin but to hate sin itself.

Regret... when it comes to you, I have oceans of it.

What a fool I was, not to tear my heart out on the day when I resolved to revenge myself!

Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.

A month's salary, deep regret, the telephone number of some foul rehab clinic and my lance was free.