Men become cannibals of their own hearts; remorse, regret, and restless impatience usurp the place of more wholesome feeling: every thing seems… — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley Copy Share Image
“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine… — Leif Enger Copy Share Image
The nation wept tears of remorse for their leader: the tear-gas accomplished what was expected. — Minimaks Copy Share Image
Any pleasure that would keep you from Christ is a sinful pleasure that will doubtless cause you anguish, heartache, tears and remorse. — John R. Rice Copy Share Image
Remorse is sorrow over being caught and the pain of consequences that follow. Repentance is not being concerned for ourselves but having… — Charles R. Swindoll Copy Share Image
“Manos was an artist at manipulating people’s lives and turning everything to his advantage. He had no conscience and no remorse...” — Angel Sefer Copy Share Image
Remorse of conscience is like an old wound; a man is in no condition to fight under such circumstances. The pain abates… — Jeremy Collier Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
“Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
I still feel pangs of remorse over an insidious habit I've had since I was a teenager. About three times a week,… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time,… — Anthony Liccione Copy Share Image
I think for Laura [Bush] it was kind of a sense of remorse because she is very close to the girls. They're… — George W. Bush Copy Share Image
“The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
“Regret and remorse represent a constant tension in our inner architecture and an ongoing interaction between self-knowledge and moral growth. ("Island of… — Erik Pevernagie Copy Share Image
Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
Lord, protect our decisions, because making Decision is a way of praying. Give us the courage after our doubts, to be able… — Paulo Coelho Copy Share Image
“is it just me or does it seem like the gods have a vendetta against us?" Hector "They want us dead" Aricles… — Sherrilyn Kenyon Copy Share Image
“A man can wish to slink away from many things in life, and he may even succeed, so that life’s favored one… — Søren Kierkegaard Copy Share Image
If we consider what happens in conversation, in reveries, in remorse, in times of passion, in surprises, in the instructions of dreams,… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow… — Francoise Sagan Copy Share Image
We pledge our loyalty; we affirm our determination to be of good courage; we declare, sometimes even publicly, that come what may… — Gordon B. Hinckley Copy Share Image
“Here the first of the things that happened, happened. The first of the things important enough to notice and to remember afterward,… — Cornell Woolrich Copy Share Image
“Lionel was filled with awful remorse. He asked where had Thomas been last seen, and the boy told him he was headed… — L. Joseph Shosty Copy Share Image
Remorse is impotence; it will sin again. Only repentance is strong - it can end everything. — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. — Ally Carter Copy Share Image
Guilt doesn't help. What should fill in for it? Remorse. Remorse is when you feel bad about what you did. Guilt is… — David D. Burns Copy Share Image
The greatest regret is being what others would want you to be rather than being yourself. — Shannon L Alder Copy Share Image
Remorse is the punishment of crime; repentance, its expiation. The former appertains to a tormented conscience; the latter to a soul changed… — Joseph Joubert Copy Share Image
“Guilt is the source of sorrows, the avenging fiend that follows us behind with whips and stings.” — Nicholas Rowe Copy Share Image
“His lack of remorse and boundaries should have been a red flag to me, but it sort of made me want to… — Monica Alexander Copy Share Image
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… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
“As we shall see below, without that tinge of moral remorse, however, there would have been no catharsis, and therefore no surviving… — Gil Bailie Copy Share Image
The difference between anger and deep remorse - remorse is much fatter. It's a deeper feeling altogether. Anger is too easy an… — John Hurt Copy Share Image
We've developed a very complex filing system for existence. We see things in terms of good or bad. We feel happiness, joy,… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
I lose respect for people that don't apologize or show remorse for something wrong that they've done to me. It shows how… — Sonya Parker Copy Share Image
All futurity seems teeming with endless destruction never to be repelled; Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage. — William Blake Copy Share Image
Christianity has enriched the erotic meal with the appetizer of curiosity and spoiled it with the dessert of remorse. — Karl Kraus Copy Share Image
Our repentances are generally not so much a concern and remorse for the harm we have done, as a fear of the… — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
Is there not a sort of remorse that precedes sin? Was it remorse at the very fact that I existed? — Yukio Mishima Copy Share Image