Remorse, Repentance Quotes

Do you think if a man sincerely repents on what he done wrong... that he might get to go back to the time that was happiest for him... and live there forever? Could that be what heaven's like?

Am I sorry for what I did? Well, are you? There's not a day goes by I don't feel regret. Not because I'm in here or because you think I should. I look back on the way I was then. A young... stupid kid who committed that terrible crime. I wanna talk to him. I wanna try and talk some sense to him, tell him the way things are. But I can't. That kid's long gone. This old man is all that's left. I gotta live with that. Rehabilitated? It's just a bullshit word.

— What are you?
— I am what you made me! I lived the life that you preached, but never dared practice. I am everything, that you were too afraid to be. But I was trying... I was trying... so hard... to be a better man.

I'm getting to my knees. I'm praying, praying. Lord is my shepherd and so forth and so on. I'm sorry for all the bad shit I've done and people I've tramped on. And I hope they forgive me... and I'll never do it again, that's for sure.

— I’ll be quite honest with you. I’m torn between breaking your neck here and throwing you down the stairs. Have you any idea what it’s like in jail? Course you don’t. Tell me, did it give you pleasure to think of me inside?
— No.
— But you did nothing about it.
— No.
— Do you think I assaulted your cousin?
— No.
— Did you think it then?
— Yes, yes and no. I wasn’t certain.
— And what’s made you so certain now?
— Growing up.
— Growing up?
— I was thirteen.
— How old do you have to be before you know the difference between right and wrong? Do you have to be eighteen before you can own up to a lie? There are soldiers of eighteen old enough to be left to die on the side of the road! Did you know that?
— Yes.
— Five years ago you didn’t care about telling the truth. You and all your family, you just assumed that for all my education, I was still a little better than a servant, still not to be trusted. Thanks to you, they were able to close ranks and throw me to the fucking wolves.