Quotes about Remorse (245 quotes)

Remorse is the pain of sin. Votes: 5

Theodore Parker

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Remorse begets reform. Votes: 4

William Cowper

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Remorse weeps tears of blood. Votes: 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Votes: 4

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton

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Remorse-Regret that one waited so long to do it. Votes: 4

H. L. Mencken

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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. Votes: 4

William C. Bryant

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Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed for the better. Votes: 4

Joseph Joubert

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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of the brave! Votes: 4

Walter Scott

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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy, It is the poison tree, that pierced to the inmost, Weeps only tears of poison. Votes: 4

Samuel Taylor Coleridge

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Remorse is memory awake. Votes: 3

Emily Dickinson

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Repentance is accepted remorse. Votes: 3

Sophie Swetchine

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Remorse turns us against ourselves. Votes: 3

Nicolas Chamfort

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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. Votes: 3

George A. Moore

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Remorse is the poison of life. Votes: 3

Charlotte Bronte

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Remorse is the fruit of crime. Votes: 3

Juvenal

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One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. Votes: 3

Ogden Nash

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Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. Votes: 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse for what is done is useless. Votes: 3

Philo

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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid. Votes: 3

William Cowper

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Remorse is violent dyspepsia of the mind. Votes: 3

Ogden Nash

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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. Votes: 3

Ogden Nash

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Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. Votes: 3

Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton

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Remorse presupposes enough self-forgetfulness to feel the pain ofothers. Votes: 3

Helen Prejean

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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. Votes: 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Of all means to regeneration, Remorse is surely the most wasteful. Votes: 3

E. M. Forster

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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. Votes: 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. Votes: 3

William C. Bryant

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Remorse shows the difference between a cruel person and one that is not. Votes: 3

Federico Chini

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Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. Votes: 3

Winifred Holtby

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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all. Votes: 3

Honore de Balzac

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Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything. Votes: 3

Henry Miller

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Remorse is cureless--the Disease Not even God--can heal-- For 'tis His institution--and The Adequate of Hell Votes: 3

Emily Dickinson

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Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? Votes: 3

Charles Manson

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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. Votes: 3

Jean Rostand

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Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. Votes: 3

Honore de Balzac

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There's a difference between remorse and repentance. Remorse is being sorry for being caught. Repentance is being sorry enough to stop. Votes: 3

Greg Laurie

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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. Votes: 3

Gilbert Parker

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Remorse.-- Never yield to remorse, but at once tell yourself: remorse would simply mean adding to the first act of stupidity a second. Votes: 3

Friedrich Nietzsche

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Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having a contrite heart. Votes: 3

Charles R. Swindoll

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Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. [Fr., Le remords s'endort durant un destin prospere et s'aigrit dans l'adversite.] Votes: 3

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism of conduct. Votes: 3

William Carlos Williams

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Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is when you feel bad about who you are. Votes: 3

David D. Burns

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Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates his vigor and takes up too much of his attention. Votes: 3

Jeremy Collier

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Remorse, the fatal egg by pleasure laid, In every bosom where her nest is made, Hatched by the beams of truth, denies him rest, And proves a raging scorpion in his breast. Votes: 3

William Cowper

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Remorse is extremely useful for a generation which has in fact dirtied its hands but for the next generation you cannot ask, for instance, young Germans today to feel guilty about Hitlerism. Votes: 3

Pascal Bruckner

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The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinityâ¦ Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does this whispering voice say? Everything in us that is not human anymore. Votes: 3

Emile M. Cioran

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Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on the board. Once it begins, there shouldn't be any emotion involved whatsoever. Votes: 3

Julie Garwood

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Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences of sin. Remorse and regret cannot compensate for sin....though sins can be forgiven immediately - the consequences can last a lifetime Votes: 3

Edwin Louis Cole

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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even be defined, Because everything is not gold that glisters and everything is not a tear that glistens, And one man's remorse is another man's reminiscence" Votes: 3

Ogden Nash

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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done, to wish you could look back on kindness to someone you love, instead of on unkindness - that is a very terrible thing. Votes: 3

Enid Blyton

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He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked companion was that Cowardice which invariably drew him back, with her tremulous gripe, just when the other impulse had hurried him to the verge of a disclosure. Votes: 3

Nathaniel Hawthorne

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Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. Votes: 2

William Shakespeare

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True remorse is never just a regret over consequences; it is a regret over motive. Votes: 2

Mignon McLaughlin

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To be left alone, and face to face with my own crime, had been just retribution. Votes: 2

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. Votes: 2

Juvenal

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There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. Votes: 2

Benjamin Disraeli

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There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he receives a sting in his soul. Votes: 2

John Tillotson

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The greatest chastisement that a man may receive who hath outraged another, is to have done the outrage; and there is no man who is so rudely punished as he that is subject to the whip of his own repentance. Votes: 2

Seneca the Younger

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Sharp and fell remorse, the offspring of my sin! Why do you, O God, lacerate my heart so late? Why, O boding cries, that scream so close to me,--why do I listen to you now, and never heard you before? Votes: 2

Pietro Metastasio

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There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter weariness and prostration of spirit, a sickness of heart and mind, a bitter longing to lie down and die. Votes: 2

Mary Elizabeth Braddon

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Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean. Votes: 2

Aldous Huxley

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I don't have a seller's remorse about how I've lived. Votes: 1

Kevin Costner

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I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. Votes: 1

Thomas a Kempis

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I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. Votes: 1

Ogden Nash

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On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. Votes: 1

Jean Racine

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Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? Votes: 1

Ivan Turgenev

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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. Votes: 1

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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Permanent remorse about failing to do your human duty, in my opinion, can be worse than losing your life. Votes: 1

Miep Gies

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. Votes: 1

Lucius Annaeus Seneca

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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. Votes: 1

Malcolm Lowry

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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse. Votes: 1

Tom Peters

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In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the names of their masters. Votes: 1

Eduardo Galeano

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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood and three from the remorse of age. Votes: 1

Ambrose Bierce

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Psychopaths view any social exchange as a 'feeding opportunity,' a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only one winner. Their motives are to manipulate and take, ruthlessly and without remorse. Votes: 1

Robert D. Hare

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Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause a difference. However, repentance is different. Repentance is an admission of, hatred of, and turning away from sin before God. Votes: 1

Monica Johnson

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Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us to feel fully the conviction of our sins. He knows the depths of our remorse. He can then direct what we must do to qualify for forgiveness. Votes: 1

Henry B. Eyring

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Repentance is accepted remorse." Votes: 0

Sophie Swetchine

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I wealthiest am when richest in remorse. Votes: 0

Robert Southwell

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nothing may be more selfish than remorse ... Votes: 0

Margaret Deland

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The real affliction of old age is remorse. Votes: 0

Cesare Pavese

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It is the bungled crime that brings remorse. Votes: 0

P. G. Wodehouse

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Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. Votes: 0

William Blake

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What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse. Votes: 0

Epictetus

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Remember. Observe, assess and act. No hesitation. No remorse. Votes: 0

Steven Ramirez

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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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Guilt, remorse. It's what separates us from the animals. Votes: 0

Arthur Mitchell

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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. Votes: 0

Anita Loos

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There is no remorse like the remorse of Chess Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse. Votes: 0

Umar

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Every crime will bring remorse to the man who committed it Votes: 0

Juvenal

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There are no second chances in life, except to feel remorse. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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I take my chances. I can't cling to remorse or regret. Votes: 0

Mary Chapin Carpenter

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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty. Votes: 0

Lyn Nofziger

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An eye on future doesn't let you reap repose and hence remorse. Votes: 0

Junaid e Mustafa

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No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts. Votes: 0

Don Henley

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The Sniper must not be susceptible to emotions such as anxiety and remorse, Votes: 0

Craig Roberts

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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. Votes: 0

Karl Kraus

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Only true remorse and "Will you forgive me?" can press the reset button. Votes: 0

Andy Andrews

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Despair doth strike as deep a furrow in the brain as mischief or remorse. Votes: 0

Bryan Procter

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Repentance, as we know, is basically not moaning and remorse, but turning and change. Votes: 0

J. I. Packer

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Bashfulness may sometimes exclude pleasure, but seldom opens any avenue to sorrow or remorse. Votes: 0

Samuel Johnson

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I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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Feeling no remorse must be a blessing when all you have are your memories Votes: 0

Jon Ronson

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A jury could very well conclude that this is a case of buyer's remorse. Votes: 0

Ken Buck

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The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. Votes: 0

William Shakespeare

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Shakespeare alternated between musical surrenders to social prestige and magnificent fits of poetic remorse. Votes: 0

Laura Riding

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And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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My tidiness, and my untidiness, are full of regret and remorse and complex feelings. Votes: 0

Natalia Ginzburg

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Without guilt or remorse, shame was an empty emotion. Indeed, shame would not be shame. Votes: 0

Sylvain Reynard

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Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." Votes: 0

Timothy Keller

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The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected. Votes: 0

Minimaks

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I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse. Votes: 0

Charles Baudelaire

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Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal. Votes: 0

Rene Char

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Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. Votes: 0

Charlotte Bronte

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Make mistakes often without remorse or fear. You will gain experience and will be a winner. Votes: 0

Debasish Mridha

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We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. Votes: 0

James Boswell

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Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator. Votes: 0

Virginia H. Pearce

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Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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We [Muslims] have to be above you. You [Americans] have to be subdued. No regrets. No remorse. Votes: 0

Zacarias Moussaoui

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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. Votes: 0

Cyril Connolly

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Imagination though it cannot wipe out the sting of remorse can instruct the mind in its proper uses. Votes: 0

William Carlos Williams

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The sinner does not feel any remorse over his sins, that is because his heart is already dead Votes: 0

Ibn Qayyim Al-Jawziyya

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My trigger finger itching, positioned at your dome, one twitch and it's on. No remorse or second thoughts. Votes: 0

Snoop Dogg

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Repentance must be something more than mere remorse for sins: it comprehends a change of nature befitting heaven. Votes: 0

Lew Wallace

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I'm easily frightened, and I've also come to realize that old Catholic guilt or remorse is easily stimulated. Votes: 0

Billy Collins

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Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think. Votes: 0

James De La Vega

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Pride ruined the angels, Their shame them restores; And the joy that is sweetest Lurks in stings of remorse. Votes: 0

Ralph Waldo Emerson

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Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. Votes: 0

Karl Kraus

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There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. Votes: 0

Seneca the Elder

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Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? Votes: 0

Yukio Mishima

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All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. Votes: 0

William Blake

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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation. Votes: 0

Plutarch

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There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. Votes: 0

James Ellis

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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. Votes: 0

Honore de Balzac

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Yesterday is but a memory, Tomorrow an uncharted course, So live today so it will be a memory without remorse. Votes: 0

Edgar Cayce

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Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse. Votes: 0

Tupac Shakur

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All who suffer are full of hatred; all who live drag a remorse: the dead alone have broken their chains. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The acts we engage in for appeasment today, we will have to remedy at far greater cost and remorse tomorrow. Votes: 0

Winston Churchill

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There is no remorse like a remorse of chess. It is a curse upon man. There is no happiness in chess. Votes: 0

H. G. Wells

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Obligations, hatreds, injuries; what did I expect my memories to be? I was forgetting remorse. Now I have a complete past. Votes: 0

Jean Anouilh

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'Oh, poor, poor fellow!' said Mrs. Elliot with a remorse that was sincere, though her congratulations would not have been. Votes: 0

E. M. Forster

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So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good. Votes: 0

John Milton

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I did not want to be taken for a fool-the typical French reason for performing the worst of deeds without remorse. Votes: 0

Jules Amedee Barbey d'Aurevilly

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...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse. Votes: 0

Charles Darwin

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I certainly didn't emerge from prison regretting anything I ever wrote, nor did I feel remorse for my crime in the least. Votes: 0

Jim Goad

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Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility. Votes: 0

Radhanath Swami

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Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. Votes: 0

John R. Rice

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Thousands of animals (now billions) are butchered every day without a shadow of remorse. It cries vengeance upon all the human race. Votes: 0

Romain Rolland

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There is never enough time to say our last word-the last word of our love, of our desire, faith, remorse, submission, revolt. Votes: 0

Joseph Conrad

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She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. Votes: 0

Ally Carter

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Every fresh act of sin lessens fear and remorse, hardens our hearts, blunts the edge of our conscience, and increases our evil inclination. Votes: 0

J. C. Ryle

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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience. Votes: 0

Friedrich Nietzsche

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In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's remorse. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace. Votes: 0

Brennan Manning

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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed on one part thunder-and-lightning, one part remorse, two parts bloody murder, one part death-hell-and-the-grave and four parts clarified Satan. Votes: 0

Ambrose Bierce

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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us? Votes: 0

Joel Edgerton

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It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint. Votes: 0

Martin Mull

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Good steel bends, but never breaks. Good steel stays always sharp and ready. Good steel feels no pain, no pity, and above all, no remorse Votes: 0

Joe Abercrombie

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Religion indeed enlightens, terrifies, subdues; it gives faith, it inflicts remorse, it inspires resolutions, it draws tears, it inflames devotion, but only for the occasion. Votes: 0

John Henry Newman

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And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think about something else Votes: 0

Aldous Huxley

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Every self-respecting act of persuasion must find appeal to curiosity, then to vanity, and lastly to kindness or remorse. Isabella looked down and slowly nodded. Votes: 0

Carlos Ruiz Zafon

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From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. Votes: 0

Ray Bradbury

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I was seized by remorse and the sense of guilt, which hurried me away to a hell of intense tortures as no language can describe Votes: 0

Mary Shelley

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I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I never broke anyone's leg. Votes: 0

Peter Storey

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A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him remorse. Votes: 0

Arthur Miller

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Be quiet! Anyone can spit in my face, and call me a criminal and a prostitute. But no one has the right to judge my remorse. Votes: 0

Jean-Paul Sartre

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Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears but not by blood. Votes: 0

Victor Hugo

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The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an escape for my money. Votes: 0

John Hurt

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Relationships are blessings, but they need the manure of love, respect and devotion. A little more would raise expectations and a little less would bring remorse. Votes: 0

Shilpa Sandesh

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Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems better than that which is. Votes: 0

Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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It's your one last chance," said Harry, "it's all you've got left. . . .I've seen what you'll be otherwise. . . . Be a man . . . try . . . Try for some remorse. . . . Votes: 0

J. K. Rowling

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We would willingly, and without remorse, sacrifice not only the present moment, but all the interval (no matter how long) that separates us from any favorite object. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy, pain, loss, guilt and remorse. Votes: 0

Frederick Lindemann, 1st Viscount Cherwell

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It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow may disclose. Votes: 0

Robert Jones Burdette

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Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other than to say that I'm remorseful. Votes: 0

Jayson Blair

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Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they manufacture wisdom. But regret-regret is useless. Votes: 0

Daniel Smith

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To die is only to be as we were before we were born; yet no one feels any remorse, or regret, or repugnance, in contemplating this last idea. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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We can always get along better by reason and love of truth than by worry of conscience and remorse...we should strive to keep worry from our life. Votes: 0

Baruch Spinoza

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Now I have shed my first blood. I feel no qualms, no pride, no remorse. There is only a weary indifference that will follow me throughout the war. Votes: 0

Audie Murphy

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He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of hell spurs on to commit sin. Votes: 0

Emile Zola

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I'll do anything to stop my son running out into the street. I'll take a bullet for him. He's hit me a few times. He shows no remorse afterward. Votes: 0

Farrah Fawcett

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Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the harm we may have brought upon ourselves. Votes: 0

Francois de La Rochefoucauld

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I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering inflicted on South Koreans by Japan's colonial rule, Votes: 0

Junichiro Koizumi

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That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until they formed a distinctive pattern, a design for living. Votes: 0

Margaret Millar

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It is futile to debate on what is wrong and right with people whose remorse is not their punishment, nor is it reasonable to care about their promise and criticism. Votes: 0

Khem Veasna

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Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always wondered myself why I don't feel more remorse. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Dahmer

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Rejoicing is the essence of genuine worship. A sad face (apart from remorse for sin or regret concerning the pain of others) is an affront to a gracious and generous God. Votes: 0

Max Anders

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You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men may wake and gaze upon themselves. Votes: 0

Khalil Gibran

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You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed without doubt, remorse, or blame. You alone are responsible. Votes: 0

Mike Livingston

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A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place an unwarranted importance on the self. Votes: 0

Carlos Castaneda

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Besides the pleasure, there is always remorse, from the indulgence of our passions; and, after all, what have you men to fear from all this; the world excuses, and notoriety ennobles you? Votes: 0

Alexandre Dumas

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For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened when wakened, and in some never wakened at all. Votes: 0

William Makepeace Thackeray

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At the end of the day, every child has learned the Lesson of Spin: Almost every wrong action can be stripped of consequences, along with the need for feelings of guilt and remorse. Votes: 0

Bill O'Reilly

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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest by everything, Everything we look upon is blessed. Votes: 0

William Butler Yeats

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There's been fifty-million people that died since Sharon Tate died and I got everybody in Santa Claus land chasing me, trying to make me feel remorse for one psychotic episode of (Tex) Watson. Votes: 0

Charles Manson

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When we lose our individual independence in the corporateness of a mass movement, we find a new freedom â freedom to hate, bully, lie, torture, murder and betray without shame and remorse. Votes: 0

Eric Hoffer

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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment. They feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill. Votes: 0

William Hazlitt

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It's important in life to conclude things properly. Only then can you let go. Otherwise you are left with words you should have said but never did, and your heart is heavy with remorse. Votes: 0

Yann Martel

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I have no remorse. As to whether recollection of my deeds makes me feel ashamed, I will tell you. Thinking back to all the details is not at all unpleasant. I rather enjoy it. Votes: 0

Peter Kurten

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As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is no sooner hatched but remorse is at hand, ready to supplant her. Votes: 0

Daniel Cawdry

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Yet only when we come to understand, in the light of the Cross, the evil we are capable of, and have even been a part of, can we experience true remorse and true repentance. Votes: 0

Pope Francis

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Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits, pension obligations, and even employees without much remorse or maybe even hesitation. Votes: 0

Jeffrey Pfeffer

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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear. Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most hardened heart; I am told this is due to fear." Votes: 0

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

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I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies might there be, who owns them, and do they keep their doors locked? Votes: 0

Richard Russo

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The fruition of what is unlawful must be followed by remorse. The core sticks in the throat after the apple is eaten, and the sated appetite loathes the interdicted pleasure for which innocence was bartered. Votes: 0

Jane Porter

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For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others of course don't care, and they continue acting with contempt. Votes: 0

Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela

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Quotes about Remorse

No remorse (46 quotes)

Remorse And Guilt (50 quotes)

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