My God, What Have I Done?/Quotes

"The awful daring of a moment's surrender

which an age of prudence can never retract."

—T. S. Eliot, The Waste Land

"Oh sister, what hae I done to thee?
Hae I done this dreadful thing to thee?

Hae I done this dreadful thing to thee?

All doon by the bonnie banks o'Fordie, oh"

—The Bandit, "Bonnie Banks o'Fordie"

"I've created a monster!"

—Dr. Frankenstein, Frankenstein

"I didn't come to this country...to do something like this."

—Klaus, Hyakujitsu no Bara (OVA)

"Regrets are illuminations come too late."

—Joseph Campbell, The Hero With A Thousand Faces

"What have I done...I've killed da wabbit..."

—Elmer Fudd, Looney Tunes "What's Opera Doc"

"Harry sat there frozen, his life in ruins, feeling the absolute fool, and wishing wretchedly that he had made any other choices for any other reasons but the ones he had. That he had done something, anything differently before it had been too late to turn back."

—Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

"And you may ask yourself
Am I right? Am I wrong?
And you may say to yourself

My God, what have I done?"

—Talking Heads, Once in a Lifetime

What have I done?
What have I done?
How could I...

...Be so blind?"

—Jack, The Nightmare Before Christmas

"What have I done?
Though I did not pull the trigger, I built the gun

That he holds in his hand..."

—Dr. Thomas Light, "Father Of Death"

"And there is one blazing moment in which you finally understand that there was no dragon. That there was no Vader. That there was only you. Only Anakin Skywalker."

—Revenge of the Sith (novelization)

"What have I done?
Sweet Jesus, what have I done?

Become a thief in the night"

—Jean Valjean, Les Misérables (the musical)

"Then Joseph took Mary
All on his right knee:
"Oh, what have I done, Lord?

Have mercy on me."

—"The Cherry Tree Carol, Child Ballad 54"

"It had been Tenn who'd pulled the trigger. He had sent the beam that killed at least a billion people, maybe more [...] How could a man live knowing that he, personally, had dropped the curtain on more people at once than anybody had ever done before? How could he live with all those ghosts?"

—Tenn Graneet, Head Gunner on the Death Star

"It's all my fault those animals came in like that…I still can't believe I did that. I don't know why that happened, everyone, I just wanted to socialize with those animals and they ran away and I lost my temper! OH HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO CRUEL?!"

—Fluttershy, My Little Pony Friendship Is Magic After The Gala.

"Good God, what have we done?"

—Howard, The Big Bang Theory

"Oh my god, what have I done?
Do it again.
All I wanted was a little fun.
Do it again."

Shepard: Every time we talked about this before, you defended the genophage. Hell, I had to talk you into saving Maelon's data! How could you change your mind now?

Mordin: I MADE A MISTAKE! I made a mistake. Focused on big picture. Big picture made of little pictures. Too many variables! Can't hide behind statistics, can't ignore new data. My responsibility!

—Mass Effect 3