History Quotes / MyGodWhatHaveIDone

-->-- ''WesternAnimation/ToyStory''

-->-- '''[[spoiler: [[BigBad Eren]] [[WoobieDestroyerOfWorlds Yeager]]]]''', ''Manga/AttackOnTitan''

->''"Wh... Why...? Why don't you guys stop me?! [[NoHoldsBarredBeatdown She's gonna die if I keep hitting her!]] [[WhatTheHellHero My God, how can you just sit there and watch while I'm trying to kill her?!]] WHAT KIND OF PARENTS ARE YOU?!? [...] When I got to be president... I thought our lives were better because everyone looked so happy. It was like the whole family was glowing with happiness... but it was all a lie! None of it was real at all! [[{{Greed}} We let ourselves be blinded by greed!]] That's what the glow was... it was plain old greed, burning inside us! [[HeelRealization We're evil! Mom, Dad, everyone... AND SO AM I!]]"''
-->-- '''[[CloudCuckooLander Mako]] [[BreakTheCutie Mankanshoku]]''' calling out her family for not stopping her fight with her best friend Ryuko, ''Anime/KillLaKill''

-->-- '''Music/TalkingHeads''', [[Music/RemainInLight "Once in a Lifetime"]]

-->-- '''SherlockHolmes''', ''Fanfic/AStudyInRegret''

->''"The anger...It was on me like lightning...Master Vodo...what I have done?"''

->''"What have I done... I've killed da little wabbit..."''

-> '''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!

-> ''"I've seen worlds bathed in The Makers' flames. Their denizens fading without so much as a whimper. Entire planetary systems born and raised in the time that it takes your mortal hearts to beat once. Yet all throughout, my own heart, devoid of emotion, of empathy. I have felt.... NOTHING. A million, million lives wasted. Had they all held within them your tenacity, had they all loved life as you do?" ''
-->-- '''Algalon the Observer''', ''VideoGame/WorldOfWarcraft''

->Everything that we've done, the lives we've taken...if there is a god, may he have mercy on us all.
-->-- '''Brian Virgil''', ''VideoGame/Fallout4''

->'''What's that?'''
->Can you hear something... whispering? You try to close your ears as you stumble back to your ship. You shiver, and it feels like a thousand snakes wriggling their mirror-bodies just under your skin. What have the Neathers done? What have ''you'' done?

->''"No, wait! [[spoiler:Emperor Rudolf!]] Were you truly my father? Then I've just... Oh, gods... What have I done? Aah... '''AAAAAAAUGH!'''"''
-->-- '''Alm''', ''[[VideoGame/FireEmblemGaiden Fire Emblem Echoes: Shadows of Valentia]]''

->''"No! I DIDN'T KILL HER! T'WAS AN ACCIDENT!"''
-->--'''The Highwayman''', ''Videogame/DarkestDungeon''

->''"Such devastation... This was ''not'' my intention..."''
-->--'''Gaius van Vaelsar''', ''VideoGame/FinalFantasyXIV''

->''"Erasing a Palace essentially means forcing the owner to [[HeelFaceBrainwashing have a change of heart]]. However, even though their warped wants disappear, the crimes they committed remain... Kamoshida will be unable to bear the weight of those crimes, and he'll confess them himself!"''
-->-- '''Morgana''', ''VideoGame/Persona5''

->''I used the knife.''
->''I saved a child.''
->''I won a war.''
->''God forgive me.''

''No... that's wrong, isn't it?\\

''Another dark tally for your list, Cricket Green.''\\

->''"Your greatest gift to me... and I'm killing him. I must already be dead."''

[[folder: Anime & Manga]]
->''"[[SayMyName ALLLLLL!]] Dammit, this can't be happening! [[BigNo Nooooooo!]] He's gone, what have I done?!"''

-->-- '''[[WellIntentionedExtremist Damon]]''' in ''Anime/PokemonTheMovieBlackAndWhite'' when he realizes that his plan will destroy the world.

[[folder: Comic Books]]

->Before beginning [[ApocalypticLog this latest chapter]], I reread my journals. The first entry I wrote after the war is in a childlike scrawl and reads simply "what have I done?" What have I done? That is the question I must answer. I have loosed the [[EldritchAbomination Tygers]] upon the world. I have swept away the old order. I have cast down the towers of the cities of men... and laid the foundation stones of the [[WorldOfChaos New Jerusalem]].

[[folder: Fan Works]]

-> ''"Please don't die, Watson, come back, [[KilledOffForReal you can't die]]! Oh God, no, [[ItsAllMyFault this is all my fault]]... I'm sorry, Watson, I'm so sorry, please, Watson, come back! [[TearJerker Come back]]..."''

-> ''"It's all my fault [[spoiler: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 [[spoiler:socialize with those animals]] and they ran away and [[BewareTheNiceOnes I lost my temper!]] '''OH HOW COULD I HAVE BEEN SO CRUEL?!'''"''

[[folder: Film - Animated]]

->''...Johnny. It's Johnny! That's my son! ([[OhCrap suddenly]] [[HeelRealization remembers]] [[IHaveNoSon what happened earlier]]) ...My son.''

-> ''"What've I done? This is a nightmare... and [[ItsAllMyFault it's all my fault]]. Now because of me, we lost Alex."

[[folder: Film - Live-Action]]

->''"[[ThirdActMisunderstanding I see]] [[NotWhatItLooksLike your mind]]. You will take the Ring to [[BigBad Sauron]]! You will betray us! You go to your death and the death of us all! [[NotHimself Curse you! Curse you, and all the Halflings!]]"''\\

-->-- '''[[LovableTraitor Boromir]]''', ''Film/TheLordOfTheRingsTheFellowshipOfTheRing''

[[ArsonMurderAndJaywalking I can't count the strangers with whom]] [[SugarWiki/FunnyMoments I have showered!]]"''

->'''Sir Nigel:''' You've betrayed your country. You've passed untold numbers of secrets to Moscow, and endangered the lives of British men and women. And I'd say you've weakened NATO, perhaps irretrievably. [[TheReasonYouSuckSpeech Just you, and your schoolboy politics, and your idiotically conceited faith in your own importance]].

[[folder: Literature]]
->''[[HumanSacrifice I used the knife.]]''
->''[[PapaWolf I saved a child.]]''
->''[[HopelessWar I won a war.]]''
->''[[KillTheOnesYouLove God forgive me.]]''

Hae I done [[MoralEventHorizon this dreadful thing]] to thee?\\

->The pain of [[HorrorHunger the Hunger]] is nothing compared to [[WhatHaveIBecome the Horror]]. The howling, shrieking agony that comes from knowing [[OurZombiesAreDifferent you are not just dead, but truly in Hell]]. I try to scream, but all that comes out is a low, wheezing moan, like wind rushing down the pipe organ I play at our church.

->''"It had been Tenn who'd [[EarthShatteringKaboom 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?"''

->Something is not right. I am used to hearing [[EldritchAbomination the Muse's]] voice in my head on occasion But now suddenly I hear whispers. The murmuring voices of beasts. The echoing howls of lost souls. This is not right at all. It is almost as though my Muse is contacting others. Ghouls from another world. The more I listen, the more I am convinced it is NOT my imagination. My head throbs. [[EyeScream My right eye burns]]. I heard my Muse say something...\\
"[[LeakingCanOfEvil The door is open...]]"\\

->"I told him not to go to that chat room again. I told him..." Her lip quivered suddenly. "I told him not to talk to his father about [[PuppeteerParasite Yeerks]]. Told him not to..." Her voice was strangled. She gritted her teeth and squeezed out the last few words. "[[InnocenceLost I told that little boy not to trust his father]]."
->[[TearsOfRemorse There were tears running down her face]]. I guess they were running down my face, too. One of the things Cassie and I share is that we trust our parents, unlike some people, I guess.

[[folder: Live-Action]]

'''[[spoiler: Fitz]]''': [[HeelRealization I wanted to do those things; it felt natural. I think that I'm a bad person.]]

->''(Chloe wakes up naked in Lucifer's penthouse after a night drinking and [[WhatDidIDoLastNight draws the wrong conclusion]])''

[[folder: Machinima]]

[[folder: Music]]

[[TropeNamers My God, what have I done?]]"

[[folder: Theatre]]

[[folder: Video Games]]

->Can you hear something... whispering? You try to close your ears as you stumble back to your ship. You shiver, and it feels like a thousand snakes wriggling their mirror-bodies just under your skin. What have the [[TheRevolutionWillNotBeCivilized Neathers]] done? [[YouBastard What have]] ''[[YouBastard you]]'' [[YouBastard done]]?

->''"No, wait! [[spoiler:Emperor Rudolf!]] Were you truly my father? [[{{Patricide}} Then I've just...]] Oh, gods... What have I done? [[HeroicBSOD Aah...]] '''[[HeroicBSOD AAAAAAAUGH!]]'''"''

[[folder: Web Video]]

'''Piccolo:''' '''[[SarcasmMode "OH, I'VE MADE A TERRIBLE MISTAKE!!"]]''' ''That's you.''
-->-- ''WebVideo/DragonBallZAbridged'' after [[WhatTheHellHero Piccolo calls out on Goku's]] BatmanGambit regarding Gohan

[[folder: Western Animation]]

->''[[TearJerker "What have I done...]] [[IronicEcho I've killed]] [[GoneHorriblyRight da little wabbit..."]]''

->''[[BigNo NOOOOO!]] I've taken a life. I've killed a man. My people. My city. What have I done?! AAAAAAAARGH!''

->''"[[TheLostLenore Your]] greatest gift to me... and I'm killing him. I must already be dead."''

[[folder: Real Life]]

->''[[TearJerker "What have I done...]] [[IronicEcho I've killed da little wabbit..."]]''

->''I remembered the line from the Hindu scripture, the Literature/BhagavadGita. Vishnu is trying to persuade the Prince that he should do his duty and to impress him takes on his multi-armed form and says, "Now I am become Death, the destroyer of worlds." I suppose we all thought that, one way or another.''
-->-- '''UsefulNotes/RobertOppenheimer''', reminiscing about the first atomic bomb test