Remorse quotes

“Sometimes my life feels like a deadly balancing act, when I feel slamming up against what I should do, impulsive reactions racing to solutions miles ahead of my brain. When I look at my day, I realize that most of it was spend cleaning up the damage of the day before. In that life I don't have a future, all I have is distraction and remorse.”
Charlie Hunnam - Jackson 'Jax' Teller

“How can you be sure what will do harm to another man? Personally, I know of only two real evils in life: Remorse and sickness. And happiness is the absence of those two evils.”
Vyacheslav Tikhonov - Prince Andrei Bolkonsky

“Never look behind, only ahead.”
Milla Jovovich - Joan of Arc

“People think that Hell is fire and brimstone and the Devil poking you in the butt with a pitchfork, but it's not. Hell is when you should have walked away, but you didn't.”
Gary Leonard Oldman - Jack Grimaldi

“- Chief Justice Fargo: The blind lady.
- Judge Dredd: Who is she, sir?
- Chief Justice Fargo: Justice before your time. We should never have taken justice out of her hands.”
Max von Sydow - Judge Fargo
Sylvester Stallone - Judge Dredd

“Six weeks ago, I spoke harshly to a patient and she committed suicide. Right in front of me. Perhaps she would have done this anyway. That's what my colleagues say. But I don't know.”
Bruce Willis - Bill Capa

“I've become what I despise. I cheated my profession, cheated myself, I cheated basketball. There's two words I didn't think would ever come out of my mouth, I didn't think I'd ever be able to say... I quit.”
Nick Nolte - Pete Bell

“I haven't killed anybody since 1984. Goddamn his soul to burn for eternity in fucking hell for making me get my handsdirty.”
Christopher Walken - Vincenzo Coccotti

“- Benny Pearl: I hope you're happy with what you have done to her. You just stay the hell away from my sister.
- Sam: No....
- Benny Pearl: You want to know why everyone laughs at you, Sam? Because you're an idiot. You're a first-class moron.”

Aidan Quinn - Benny Pearl
Johnny Depp - Sam

“I'll never know why Early Grayce became a killer. I don't know why any of them did. When I looked into his eyes I felt nothing, nothing. That day I learned that any one of us is capable of taking another human life. But I also learned there is a difference between us and them: it's feeling remorse. Dealing with guilt. Confronting a conscience....” (continue)(continue reading)
David Duchovny - Brian Kessler

“- Rehab Leader: Khaila, what is it? What's wrong?
- Khaila Richards: I killed him.
- Rehab Leader: What?
- Khaila Richards: My baby. I killed my baby. I threw him in the trash can.”

Velma Austin - Rehab Leader
Halle Berry - Khaila Richards

“- Raoul Silva: No remorse. Just as I had imagined.
- M: Regret is unprofessional.”
Javier Bardem - Silva
Dame Judi Dench - M

“You're so afraid that someone's gonna get something that you never had. It's what makes you mean. And you know something, Dwight? One of these days, all of that meanness is gonna snap back and slap you right in the face.”
Ellen Barkin - Caroline

“You're giving too much of yourself away, mate.”

Ben Kingsley - Don Logan

“I'm sorry I was so rude before... but... it's difficult for me... to... express myself... when I am on the verge of... exploding in my pants.”
Adam Sandler - Dave Buznik

“- Mike Wallace: Do you wish you hadn't come forward? Do you wish you hadn't blown the whistle?
- Jeffrey Wigand: There are times when I wish I hadn't done it. There are times when I feel compelled to do it. If you asked me would I do it again, do I think it's worth it? Yeah, I think it's worth it.”

Christopher Plummer - Mike Wallace
Russell Crowe - Jeffrey Wigand

- Dr. Berger: It hurts to be mad at him, doesn't it?
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: God, I loved him. It's not fair. You just do one wrong thing, and...
- Dr. Berger: And what was the one wrong thing you did? You know. You know.
- Conrad "Con" Jarrett: I hung on. I stayed with the boat.
- Dr. Berger: Exactly.

Judd Hirsch - Berger
Timothy Hutton - Conrad

“- John Hull: Gerry, I sold drugs, I've watched people die, and I didn't do nothing. I killed people. You lied to me.
- Carver: They lied to me, John. How naive can you get, man? What, what, are you so stupid you can't see that? You think I like this? Huh? John, I'm sorry. Huh? It's all shit, you know. It's all bullshit. You know that. I know that.”
Laurence Fishburne - John Hull
Charles Martin Smith - Carver

“Of all the things I regret I did, the ones I didn't are the ones I mourn the most.”
Shirley Knight - Ann Butterfield

“Men for the most part can mend their ways only after they have made a mistake.”
Donnie Yen - Jin Ke

“There's no one who knows your life better than a brother that's near your age. He knows who you are and what you are better than anyone on earth. My brother and I said some unforgivable things the last time we met, but I'm trying to put that behind me... and this trip is a hard swallow of my pride. I just hope I'm not too late... a brother's a...” (continue)(continue reading)
Richard Farnsworth - Alvin

What do you want me to do, start crying like a little baby? "Oh, I'm so sorry I killed the little girl". Well, fuck you, and fuck her! Go ahead! Put me outta my fucking misery! Pull the fucking trigger!

James Gandolfini - Eddie Poole

You know what the last thing I said to him was? I said "You're as bad as the people that built this place". Which wasn't true. Billy was just...young.

Sam Neill - Dr. Alan Grant

“Rose left me with a riddle I have not yet resolved: how we judge those that hurt us and show no remorse.”
Jessica Lange - Ginny Cook Smith

“I'm sorry I prayed for you. I am! I never thought it'd be possible to be sorry for a thing like that! But I apologize to myself for all the times I got down on my knees and begged to God to bring you home safe!”

Kimberly Williams-Paisley - Karen Collier