Remorse Quotes
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war. (Quote by - Abu Abbas)
Remorse weeps tears of blood. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
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. (Quote by - John Tillotson)
Remorse begets reform. (Quote by - William Cowper)
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. (Quote by - Jean Racine)
Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse. (Quote by - Anita Loos)
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? (Quote by - Metastasio)
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. (Quote by - Seneca)
Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right? (Quote by - Charles Manson)
Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell. (Quote by - George A. Moore)
It is better to be affected with a true penitent sorrow for sin than to be able to resolve the most difficult cases about it. (Quote by - Thomas a Kempis)
Farewell, remorse: all good to me is lost; Evil, be thou my good. (Quote by - John Milton)
There is anguish in the recollection that we have not adequately appreciated the affection of those whom we have loved and lost. (Quote by - Benjamin Disraeli)
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. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
I cannot show remorse because I do not believe I am guilty. (Quote by - Lyn Nofziger)
Remorse is the pain of sin. (Quote by - Theodore Parker)
I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. (Quote by - William Makepeace Thackeray)
One of those terrible moments when the wheel of passion stands suddenly still. (Quote by - Edward George Earle Lytton Bulwer-Lytton)
Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you. (Quote by - Jean Rostand)
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? (Quote by - Richard Russo)
One man's remorse is another man's reminiscence. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. (Quote by - Karl Kraus)
Remorse is a man's dread prerogative, and is the natural accompaniment of his constitution as a knowing, voluntary agent, left in trust with his own welfare and that of others. Remorse, if we exclude the notion of responsibility, is an enigma in human nature never to be explained. (Quote by - Isaac Taylor)
Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue. (Quote by - Edward G. Bulwer-Lytton)
Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of the person that I now see is 100 percent politician, I think he's sorry he got caught. (Quote by - Monica Lewinsky)
Remorse is impotent; it will repeat its faults. Repentance only is a true force; it puts an end to everything. (Quote by - Honore de Balzac)
Remorse sleeps in the atmosphere of prosperity. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. (Quote by - Malcolm Lowry)
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase are fruits of innocence and blessedness. (Quote by - William Cullen Bryant)
Remorse goes to sleep during a prosperous period and wakes up in adversity. (Quote by - Jean-Jacques Rousseau)
I am afraid to think what I have done; look on it again I dare not. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity. (Quote by - Jean Jacques Rousseau)
So writhes the mind remorse hath riven. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
To consume an honest soul with remorse is the greatest of all crimes. (Quote by - Mlle. Clarion)
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. (Quote by - Martin Mull)
We can prostrate ourselves in the dust when we have committed a fault, but it is not best to remain there. (Quote by - Francois August Rene de Chateaubriand)
Not even for an hour can you bear to be alone, nor can you advantageously apply your leisure time, but you endeavor, a fugitive and wanderer, to escape from yourself, now vainly seeking to banish remorse by wine, and now by sleep; but the gloomy companion presses on you, and pursues you as you fly. (Quote by - Horace)
Judgment hath bred a kind of remorse in me. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
Who among us has the strength to oppose petty egoism, those petty good feelings, pity and remorse? (Quote by - Ivan Turgenev)
Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch, and still the charge renews. (Quote by - John Dryden)
Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
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. (Quote by - Samuel Taylor Coleridge)
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. (Quote by - Ambrose Bierce)
Remorse is the fruit of crime. (Quote by - Juvenal)
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. (Quote by - Francois de La Rochefoucauld)
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit for earth, undoom'd for heaven, Darkness above, despair beneath, Around it flame, within it death. (Quote by - Lord Byron)
Repentance is accepted remorse. (Quote by - Anne Sophie Swetchine)
Remorse is regret that one waited so long to do it. (Quote by - Henry Louis Mencken)
Remorse turns us against ourselves. (Quote by - Sebastien-Roch-Nicolas de Chamfort)
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. (Quote by - Thomas Kempis)
I think remorse ought to stop biting the consciences that feed it. (Quote by - Ogden Nash)
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. (Quote by - Mary Elizabeth Braddon)
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. (Quote by - James Ellis)
Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within. (Quote by - Juvenal)
There is no person so severely punished, as those who subject themselves to the whip of their own remorse. (Quote by - Lucius Annaeus Seneca)
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. (Quote by - Joseph Joubert)
If thou dost slander her and torture me, Never pray more; abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate; Do deeds to make heaven weep, all earth amazed; For nothing canst thou to damnation add Greater than that. (Quote by - William Shakespeare)
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance. (Quote by - Gilbert Parker)
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! (Quote by - Sir Walter Scott)
To be left alone And face to face with my own crime, had been Just retribution. (Quote by - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow)
