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
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
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
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
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
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
“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
“It’s always the same. When you come out of it and take a look around, the sight of wounds that you have… — Ken Bruen Copy Share Image
For my omniscience paid I toll In infinite remorse of soul. All sin was of my sinning, all Atoning mine, and mine… — Edna St. Vincent Millay Copy Share Image
In short, the foundation of the Kingdom of God is based upon harmony and love, oneness, relationship and union, not upon differences,… — Abdu'l-Bahá Copy Share Image
“As he made his way back to his home on the Dijver, along the canals, beside the calm waters, Borluut felt his… — Georges Rodenbach Copy Share Image
“He rubbed his thumb over the smoothness of her cheek, thinking she was the most beautiful woman he’d ever known. “You don’t… — Rhyannon Byrd Copy Share Image
From this outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“How did I learn empathy? I learned it while suffering. How did I learn about karma? Because it came back to me… — Donna Lynn Hope Copy Share Image
I am worried by the Blessed Virgin’s messages to Lucy of Fatima. This persistence of Mary about the dangers which menace the… — Pope Pius XII Copy Share Image
“I looked in vain for LaRoue, my cruelty toward her now in me like a splinter, where it would sit for years… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
Shun delays, they breed remorse;Take thy time while time is lent thee;Creeping snails have weakest force,Fly their fault lest thou repent thee.Good… — Robert Southwell Copy Share Image
Trust is about keeping commitments, but in many instances, circumstances change and organizations therefore shed commitments, things such as retiree medical benefits,… — Jeffrey Pfeffer Copy Share Image
I looked back at some of my earlier published stories with genuine horror and remorse. I got thinking, How many extant copies… — Richard Russo Copy Share Image
“I no longer look to my abusers with any expectation– of remorse, or apology or restitution or restoration or relationship. I’m at… — Christina Enevoldsen Copy Share Image
As pills that are outwardly fair, gilt, and rolled in sugar, but within are full of bitterness, even so lustful pleasure is… — Daniel Cawdry Copy Share Image
Revenge is fever in our own blood, to be cured only by letting the blood of another; but the remedy too often… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
“Hopefully we don’t end up as someone else’s dinner.” For a moment I feel a stab of remorse for the lamb: born… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
Each river is different, but they all eventually lead to the ocean. No matter what we’re doing or when, or whether it… — Chris Prentiss Copy Share Image
Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an… — Monica Johnson Copy Share Image
“How I suffered when I had to preach to you those pious lies that I detest in my heart. What remorse your… — Jean Meslier Copy Share Image
What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts,… — Walt Whitman Copy Share Image
By retaliating our sufferings on the heads of those we love, we get rid of a present uneasiness and incur lasting remorse.… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
“If I had been psychopathic enough to feel no remorse or religious enough to believe in redemption through a divine outside agency,… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
“And so there’s a struggle, or a contest, I guess you could say, all the time, it seems to me. And remorse,… — Elizabeth Strout Copy Share Image
Melancholy and remorse form the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality; we run aground sooner… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
The fear of your own solitude, of its vast surface and its infinity… Remorse is the voice of solitude. And what does… — Emile M. Cioran Copy Share Image
“How could he have abandoned—no, shoved away the most important person in the world to him? The one person in the world… — Rachel Haimowitz Copy Share Image
So do the dark in soul expire, Or live like scorpion girt by fire; So writhes the mind remorse hath riven, Unfit… — Lord Byron Copy Share Image
Men who stand in the highest ranks of society seldom hear of their faults; if by any accident an opprobrious clamour reaches… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
If each man or woman could understand that every other human life is as full of sorrows, or joys, or base temptations,… — William Allen White Copy Share Image
The awakenings of remorse, virtuous shame and indignation, the glow of moral approbation if they do not lead to action, grow less… — Anna Letitia Barbauld Copy Share Image
“I was weeping because Richard Parker had left me so unceremoniously. What a terrible thing it is to botch a farewell...it's important… — Yann Martel Copy Share Image
