William Shakespeare on Repentance
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“And wet his grave with my repentant tears.”
“Under your good correction, I have seen, When, after execution judgment hath Repented o'er his doom.”
“Well, I'll repent, and that suddenly, while I am in some liking; I shall be out of heart shortly, and then I shall have no strength to repent.”
“What then? what rests? Try what repentance can: what can it not? Yet what can it when one cannot repent? O wretched state! O bosom black as death! O limed soul, that struggling to be free Art more engag'd!”