“His brains were coming out of his ears when I left him. I am not sorry. My conscious [sic] doesn't bother me. I sleep sound and have sweet dreams.”— Carl Panzram, www-rohan.sdsu.edu
“…hurry up and bring on your electric chair I want to leave here and take a nose-dive into the next world just to see if that one is as lousy as is this ball of mud and meanness. I am sorry for only two things. These two things are I am sorry that I have mistreated some few animals in my life-time an…”— Carl Panzram, amazon.com
“We're all scared. You hid in that ditch because you think there's still hope. But Blithe, the only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. And the sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll be able to function as a soldier is supposed to function. Without mercy. Without compassi…”— E. Max Frye, George Luz, Rick Gomez, imdb.com
“I was living a life of a lie. I really was. And I was doing a lot of things, like I said, that hurt a lot of people. And stripping away denial and rationalization you start coming to the truth of who you really are and that can be very ugly. But then again, when you face it and you start conquering…”— Tiger Woods, reuters.com
“Is that the purpose of remorse, to keep you from repeating mistakes?”— Melissa Rosenberg, Scott Reynolds, Dexter Morgan, Michael C. Hall, imdb.com
“I should never have done this. I should have left this alone. I'll never learn. I brought this upon myself. I'll never learn. This is on me. This is on me.”— Sam Esmail, Elliot Alderson, Rami Malek, imdb.com
“I need you to listen to me, 'cause it might be the last time I ever get to talk to you. I haven't been a good enough father. You're fourteen. You have no idea how terrifying that is. So I've tried to control what you do and who you see, because I wanted to keep you safe, and I wanted you to go off t…”— Edward Allen Bernero, Ben McBride, Jason Wiles, imdb.com
“You told Danny to watch his temper. What else did you worry about? Danny said you had a puppy, but he died. Your son is ill, and he needs help. The truth is, the only thing Danny isn't capable of is remorse. He feels nothing. The son you were trying to protect...is a sociopath.”— Debra J. Fisher, Erica Messer, imdb.com
“You know the biggest difference between me and Mr. Pope? Damon made his bones being the smartest guy on the street. I made mine being the deadliest. Don't cross me, Jackson. I have no remorse killing you or any of the Sons.”— Peter Elkoff, Kurt Sutter, August Marks, Billy Brown, imdb.com
“Like I said, we're a society of stalkers. We're all guilty. We all look. We all think things we're ashamed of. The only difference is, Tyler, you got caught.”— Thomas Higgins, Hannah Baker, Katherine Langford, imdb.com
“I am so satisfied with the cause in which I have engaged, that my only regret is, that I have not more lives than one to offer in its service.”— Nathan Hale, amazon.com
“So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear, Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good.”— John Milton, amazon.com
“Regrets came up and asked me if I’d like to own them. Declined them for the most part but took a few just so I wouldn’t leave this relationship empty handed.”— Steve Toltz, amazon.com
“Memories always win, and with them comes a demon that is even more terrifying than melancholy: remorse.”— Paulo Coelho, amazon.com
“I must warn you that when you finally have the pleasure of saying the thing you mean to say at the moment you mean to say it, remorse inevitably follows.”— Tom Hanks, imdb.com
“Chronic remorse is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrong-doing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean.”— Aldous Huxley, amazon.com
“Guilt and remorse are retrospective by definition and exempt the guilty party from any redeeming act of expiation or creative renewal.”— Marshall McLuhan, amazon.com