Remorse Quotes

“Given in love. Defiled by remorse.”

— Tracy Anne Warren

He who sows evil reaps remorse.

— Arabic Proverb

Remorse is the poison of life.

— Charlotte Bronte

Remorse is the fruit of crime.

— Juvenal

Remorse is the echo of a lost virtue.

— Anonymous

“Repentance is a shower for a soul.”

— Tamerlan Kuzgov

Remorse is memory awake.

— Emily Dickinson

I have survivor's remorse.

— Maverick Carter

Desperate remorse swallows the present in a quenchless rage.

— William Blake

“The passion fades, the remorse is eternal.”

— Lin Yutang

I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.

— Abu Abbas

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

— Anonymous

What is learned without pleasure is forgotten without remorse.

— Epictetus

Avoidance of sin is lighter than the pain of remorse.

— Umar

“Guilt is the idiot cousin of remorse,” Scythe Faraday had been fond of saying.”

— Neal Shusterman

“Ingratitude is poison to the soul remorse is part of the diagnosis.”

— Vasilios Karpos

“You can embark on new and steeper versions of your old sin, you know, and cry tears doing it that are genuine…

— Leif Enger

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

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

— Juvenal

“Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.”

— R. William Bennett

For my part, I believe that remorse is the least active of all a man's moral senses,--the very easiest to be deadened…

— William Makepeace Thackeray

It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of…

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat,…

— Tom Peters

Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness…

— Joel Edgerton

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

“Regret and remorse” is a dialectic issue about what has been done, about what should have been done and about what should…

— Erik Pevernagie

Jehovah, Allah, the Trinity, Jesus, Buddha, are names for a great variety of human virtues, human mystical experiences, human remorses, human compensatory…

— Aldous Huxley

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

“The skeletons of the past must not hold back the dream of a new life, even though fear and regret, guilt and…

— Erik Pevernagie

“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

“The paint is drying, and time is dying. The pain is crying, lying on my back, trying to get back the time,…

— Anthony Liccione

Guilt at least has a purpose; it tells us we've violated some ethical code. Ditto for remorse. Those feelings are educational; they…

— Anonymous

“He undressed, lay down, put out the light. Two names he whispered into his pillow, the few chaste northern syllables that meant…

— Thomas Mann

There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears,…

— Eric Hoffer

“Imagine the thoughts of serial killer and mutilator Jeffrey Dahmer when he ended up in prison. He felt great remorse, which he…

— Roy Ratcliff

“Chimerical words, the words were written, Some are wasted; some are still on the page, Tattered words, the words were written, Some…

— Nishikant

The world teaches birth control. Tragically, many of our sisters subscribe to its pills and practices when they could easily provide earthly…

— Ezra Taft Benson

“Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse that I thought would never reproach me again, and have heard…

— Charles Dickens

Our nation was born in genocide when it embraced the doctrine that the original American, the Indian, was an inferior race. ...…

— Martin Luther King, Jr

I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've…

— Louisa May Alcott