11 Movie Quotes about Remorse (Sound Clips)

Last updated on: August 8, 2025

Memorable quotes about remorse, selected from famous or less known movies and other sources by Movie-Sounds.org's visitors, accompanied by short mp3 and wav audio samples.

1 But then, on the other hand, 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 as Joe Fox in You've Got Mail

2 It doesn't feel pity or remorse or fear. And it absolutely will not stop. Ever! Until you are dead.

Michael Biehn as Kyle Reese in The Terminator

3 A survivor... unclouded by conscience, remorse or delusions of morality.

Ian Holm as Ash in Alien (1979)

4 The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.

James Mason as Brutus in Julius Caesar (1953)

5 And an amazing thing happened. I was able, for the first time to say the exact thing I wanted to say at the exact moment I wanted to say it. And of course, afterwards I felt terrible just as you said I would.

Meg Ryan as Kathleen Kelly in You've Got Mail

6 Dude, what's wrong? Are you suffering from buyer's remorse or something? -God, no, nothing like that.

Stacey Dash as Dionne Davenport in Clueless (1995)

7 Recently I've felt remorse. Being a killer is like being a star in the sky. It shines briefly, then goes forever.

Quote from The Green Jade Statuette (1977)

8 Tell you one thing, though. Never saw a rich man who didn't wind up with a guilty conscience.

Quote from Tombstone (1993)

9 Something about human nature. It happens all the time. Men show up and confess to crimes they committed five, ten, twenty years ago. -No kidding? -Sure. All of a sudden they get a conscience. Starts to get them down and a kind of corrosion sets in.

Cornel Wilde as Griff Marat in Shockproof (1949)

10 One has to pay in other ways than money. -What sort of ways, Sir Thomas? -I should fancy in remorse, in suffering, in... Well, in the consciousness of degradation.

Quote from The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945)