I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses. — William Makepeace Thackeray Copy Share Image
I am a cemetery abhorred by the moon, In which long worms crawl like remorse. — Charles Baudelaire Copy Share Image
On the throne, one has many worries; and remorse is the one that weighs the least. — Jean Racine Copy Share Image
We had some port, and drank damnation to the play and eternal remorse to the author. — James Boswell Copy Share Image
“I kissed him with the entirety of my remorse and the promise to be better.” — Maurene Goo Copy Share Image
“She who follows another’s course, finds a sure path to her own remorse.” — John Kramer Copy Share Image
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good. — John Milton Copy Share Image
“Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
“Feeling guilty is not a substitute for loving somebody; it only is an indicator that you have failed to love somebody.” — Clifford Cohen Copy Share Image
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“,There is never a moonlight night but wicked ideas in evil souls writhe like serpents in nests, and charitable ones sprout lilies… — Italo Calvino Copy Share Image
“Looking back, my greatest regret is not that I didn't love them enough (to the brink of insanity and back again), but… — Bailey Vincent Copy Share Image
“Remorse went out of fashion around the same time that “Stop feeling guilty,” and “You’re too hard on yourself,” and “You need… — Gail Godwin Copy Share Image
“Perhaps it was just that, born in Scotland, you were hanselled with remorse, set up with shares in Calvin against your coming… — William McIlvanney Copy Share Image
There's been fifty-million people that died since Sharon Tate died and I got everybody in Santa Claus land chasing me, trying to… — Charles Manson Copy Share Image
Situations in life often permit no delay; and when we cannot determine the course which is certainly best, we must follow the… — Rene Descartes Copy Share Image
I saw the various museum displays including scenes of torture while feeling heartfelt remorse and sorrow over the great pain and suffering… — Junichiro Koizumi Copy Share Image
Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either… — Jennifer Worth Copy Share Image
Oh what remorse we shall feel at the end of our lives, when we look back upon the great number of instructions… — Saint Francis de Sales Copy Share Image
Temptation can be tormenting, but remember: The torment of temptation to sin is nothing to compare with the torment of the consequences… — Edwin Louis Cole Copy Share Image
Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Just imagine the existence of a man - let us call him A - who has left youth far behind, and of… — Leo Tolstoy Copy Share Image
And could I look upon her without compassion, seeing her punishment in the ruin she was, in her profound unfitness for this… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
“Nicholas wanted to scream until his throat bled. Or tear apart a wall of concrete with his bare hands. Anything – anything… — Angela B. Wade Copy Share Image
“The purpose was, that I would go to Biddy, that I would show her how humbled and repentant I came back, that… — Charles Dickens Copy Share Image
As every flower fades and as all youth departs, so life at every stage, so every virtue, so our grasp of truth… — Hermann Hesse Copy Share Image
“There's something I never told you about that decision I made four years ago...I've never felt a middle ground between acceptance and… — Tammara Webber Copy Share Image
You must squeeze out of yourself every sensation, every thought, every image, - mercilessly, without reserve and without remorse: you must search… — Joseph Conrad Copy Share Image
