Regret Quote by Graham Greene Download Open image ““In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.”” — Graham Greene ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 2.6 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Regret
“The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.” — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Guilt ripped into her like a rusty, serrated knife. It took up residence in her soul, settling in and getting comfortable so it could… — G.S. Jennsen Copy Share Image
“Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.” — R. William Bennett Copy Share Image
“Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
“It is well for the unfortunate to be resigned, but for the guilty there is no peace. The agonies of remorse poison the luxury… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
“she did understand the corrosive nature of guilt. It could destroy from the inside, worrying at your mind until you submitted.” — Lisa Hartley Copy Share Image
“His death was something she felt she would never get over, and this, coupled with the guilt that she was responsible for it, put… — Robert Bryndza Copy Share Image
“No one is sorry for how they’ve treated you. They will only show remorse after you gain the power to ruin their lives.” — PK Kasirim Copy Share Image
“It was my fault, she sobbed, and it was true, no one could deny it, but it is also true, if this brings her… — José Saramago Copy Share Image
“What is cowardice in the young is wisdom in the old, but all the same one can be ashamed of wisdom.” — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Despair is the price one pays for setting oneself an impossible aim. It is, one is told, the unforgivable sin, but it is a… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“Knowledge was the great thing--not abstract knowledge in which Dr. Forester had been so rich, the theories which lead one enticingly on with their… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
With Your great schemes, You ruin our happiness like a harvester ruins a mouse's nest: I hate You, God, I hate You as though… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He had thought that home was something one possessed, but the things one had possessed were cursed with change; it was what one didn't… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
Perhaps the comparison is closer to the Chinese cook who leaves hardly any part of a duck unserved. — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“He said, ‘Oh god, help her. Damn me, I deserve it, but let her live forever.’ This was the love he should have felt… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
“A police photograph is like a passport photograph: the intelligence which casts a veil over the crude common shape is never recorded by the… — Graham Greene Copy Share Image
You'll seldom experience regret for anything that you've done. It is what you haven't done that will torment you. The message, therefore, is clear.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Never fight on the wrong side; you might win but the burden of guilt is more than a loss. — Lilian Salan Copy Share Image
“As parents who make every effort we can to raise our children in loving security, we do not need to feel more guilt than… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
The only regret I have in my career, is my managers wanted a big payday, and I wanted four or five more fights before… — Gerry Cooney Copy Share Image
I have no regrets in my life. I think that everything happens to you for a reason. The hard times that you go through… — Rita Mero Copy Share Image
When the Lord Jesus Christ became my surety . . . He went to Calvary's cross, and all my guilt was charged against Him.… — Henry Allen Ironside Copy Share Image
“Even in the miserable guilt we feel over our beastlike insensitivity, the glory of God shines. If God were not gloriously desirable, why would… — John Piper Copy Share Image
“For those filled with regret, perhaps the most needful exercise of proactivity is to realize that past mistakes are also out there in the… — Stephen R. Covey Copy Share Image
I would rather regret the things that I have done than the things that I have not. — Lucille Ball Copy Share Image
One of the things I regret about not putting in that book or I think it's there but I didn't really elaborate on it,… — Brad Warner Copy Share Image
Having no regrets is very unrealistic. Everyone has that awkward or embarrassing moment they wish they could take back. — Jayden Hayes Copy Share Image
I always had a sort of niggling regret that we didn't come do stuff in America. — Noel Fielding Copy Share Image