Regret Quote by Iris Murdoch

“Guilt, did I say? In what consists ours, unless in the opinion of an ill-judging world?”

— Matthew Gregory Lewis

“It's not the innocence that made him so certain. It's the arrogance of his guilt.”

— Katherine Stone

“Sometimes I doubt that anyone with a philosophical turn of mind is fit to judge anyone. He never comprehends the concept of guilt.”

— Jack Henry Abbott

“I am not exactly wallowing in guilt at the moment, but guilt is guilt.It doesn't go away. It can't be nullified.”

— J.D. Salinger

“But guilt is about as useful as regret, since neither do anything to set things right.”

— Ken Lange

“I didn't even try to explain to him what I was seeing, the fine spreading web through which we had all tugged one another…

— Tana French

“But, the thing about guilt is, no one can take away for you; you have to unpack it yourself.”

— Andrea Randall

“The only guilt of the victims, he thought, had been that they accepted it as guilt.”

— Ayn Rand

“There wasn’t a bit of innocence or purity in him. He was sinful and cynical. Unapologetic. He cared nothing for the world. He just…

— Joanna Chambers

“Only afterward did the guilt set in--the guilt that for a few minutes he let himself stop feeling guilty.”

— Tiffany Reisz

“I never acted out of guilt, I just couldn't live in a world where you don't exist.”

— Edward in New Moon

“It was slowly dawning on me that innocence is a protection. They knew very well, better than I, how harsh the world is. And…

— Lou Ann Walker