“Everyone may agree upon the diagnosis, but not everyone may consent to the therapy. Indeed, for healing, things have to be sacrificed… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Something bordering on nausea, something like remorse—was that it, then?—began to grip me and seemed to define itself ever more clearly the… — André Aciman Copy Share Image
When I think of the person that I thought was Bill Clinton, I think he had genuine remorse. When I think of… — Monica Lewinsky Copy Share Image
Beneath the skin, there is fear. Pain. Remorse. Yearning. Desire. A fierce longing for power. All of this. We are joined. It… — Libba Bray Copy Share Image
You must assume full responsibility for choosing to pursue power. Know that you alone have chosen to be tested, and then proceed… — Mike Livingston Copy Share Image
He had been driven hither by the impulse of that Remorse which dogged him everywhere, and whose own sister and closely linked… — Nathaniel Hawthorne Copy Share Image
When you lie, I am your guilt. When you cheat, I am your conscience. When you deny, I am your truth. When… — Ian Willis Copy Share Image
“Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind, But it is very difficult to treat because it cannot even be defined, Because… — Ogden Nash Copy Share Image
“Guilt is not an intrinsically helpful emotion for future decision-making. And often the spiral of guilt and shame can lead criminals to… — Sascha Rothchild Copy Share Image
Mystery fiction is, after all, a substitute for tranquilizers, strong drink, and bad, if diverting, companions. One slips into bed ... onto… — Mary Cantwell Copy Share Image
The memory of that event has only just come back to me, now doubly painful: regret for a vanished past and, above… — Jean-Dominique Bauby Copy Share Image
“The theatre is a tragic place, full of endings and partings and heartbreak. You dedicate yourself passionately to something, to a project,… — Iris Murdoch Copy Share Image
“As I sat, a train of reflection occurred to me, which led me to consider the effects of what I was now… — Mary Shelley Copy Share Image
“Don’t run from me,” he repeated. “I can’t protect you if I’m not there.” Her eyes shimmered with unshed tears, but she… — Cheryl Yeko Copy Share Image
“Somehow the fact that only three or four hundred years ago these skeletons had been men with their way to make in… — Virginia Woolf Copy Share Image
Yes, God loves you this very day and always. He is not waiting to love you until you have overcome your weaknesses… — Dieter F. Uchtdorf Copy Share Image
WL’s [White Liberals] think all the world’s problems can be fixed without any cost to themselves. We don’t believe that. There’s a… — Paul Farmer Copy Share Image
If we always take the path of least resistance, if we embrace inertia, if we never leap, if we never accept accountability… — Allison Winn Scotch Copy Share Image
“Any meaning of life derives from amiably accepting our anonymous role in the singular order of the universe. Such gracious reception of… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
The only hope you have is to accept the fact that you're already dead. The sooner you accept that, the sooner you'll… — Ronald Speirs Copy Share Image
My ambition was to embrace those general qualities that Ernest Hemingway, a former newspaperman, once said should be present in all good… — Pete Hamill Copy Share Image
That's what a conscience is made of, scar tissue ... Little strips and pieces of remorse sewn together year by year until… — Margaret Millar Copy Share Image
Hemingway is great in that alone of living writers he has saturated his work with the memory of physical pleasure, with sunshine… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Remorse, etymologically, is the action of biting again: that's what the feeling does to you. Imagine the strength of the bite when… — Julian Barnes Copy Share Image
Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he… — Janet Malcolm Copy Share Image
On that first day when we look back, either happily or with remorse, to the stony ways over which we have traveled,… — Myrtle Reed Copy Share Image
“Ferranti's thoughts had been his. As before he had understood his remorse so now he understood the mental chains that had imprisoned… — Elizabeth Goudge Copy Share Image
“How did I become this monster…this creature that feasts on the blood of innocents? I stare at my bloodstained dress and feel… — Rhiannon Frater Copy Share Image
“I don't feed on humans. It's a choice I made years ago. I'm only weaker physically. The urge is still there. I… — Stefan Salvatore - Vampire Diaries Copy Share Image
“Remorse overwhelmed the old man. He had indeed been foolish to agree to allow this game to dictate the outcome of their… — Dennis B. Boyer Copy Share Image
Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does.… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
“I can reprint it. And... I was thinking about staying in Virginia permanently after Ellie is back on her feet." The remorse… — Samantha Young Copy Share Image
“Avoid people who hurt from an impulse. I mean people who have this tendency to relish their capacity to hurt the good… — Janvier Chouteu-Chando Copy Share Image
“Fritz was melancholic by nature, and could tolerate his own gloom. I do not think this is so with you, who are… — John Christopher Copy Share Image
For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the… — Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela Copy Share Image
Until we have finally accepted the fact that there is nothing we can do to change the past, our feelings of regret… — Jim Rohn Copy Share Image
I’ve come to believe that the most dangerous man in the world is the one who feels no remorse. The one who… — Tahereh Mafi Copy Share Image
If your decision-making is improved on the ground, certainly you'll be less likely to make the kind of errors that will linger… — Amishi Jha Copy Share Image
Psychopaths view any social exchange as a ‘feeding opportunity,’ a contest or a test of wills in which there can be only… — Robert D. Hare Copy Share Image