“The abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.” — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
“...it's better to wake up amid the pangs of desire than amid those of remorse.” — Amin Maalouf Copy Share Image
Dread remorse when you are tempted to err, Miss Eyre; remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte Copy Share Image
No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts. — Don Henley Copy Share Image
And how shall you punish those whose remorse is already greater than their misdeeds? — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The urging of that word, judgment, hath bred a kind of remorse in me. — William Shakespeare Copy Share Image
Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow. — Karl Kraus 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
Regret or remorse of the wrong we have done should be in a positive spirit of changing, turning towards God with humility. — Radhanath Swami Copy Share Image
“Shame is the fruit of my vanities, and remorse, and the clearest knowledge of how the world's delight is a brief dream.” — Petrarch Copy Share Image
“The Punisher: If there are no consequences to your mistakes...there are no reason not to make them...” — Fred Van Lente Copy Share Image
I may be hurt because of what you did, but the time will come that you will feel the same. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
And so, resisting the temptation to wallow in artistic remorse, I prefer to leave both well and ill alone and to think… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
We're not used to seeing any videogames character express sentiments like fear, uncertainty or remorse. — Rhianna Pratchett Copy Share Image
There is no heart without remorse, no life without some misfortune, no one but what is something stained with sin. — James Ellis Copy Share Image
“He was the person all of us should be, but most of us aren't. And if I could have taken his place… — Trish Doller 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
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
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
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
“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
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
“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
“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
“An inexhaustible capacity to engage in sin is what makes human beings capable of living a virtuous life. To err is human;… — Kilroy J. Oldster Copy Share Image
I have come to think that life is a far more limited thing than those in the midst of its maelstorm realize.… — Haruki Murakami 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
“With the first jolt he was in daylight; they had left the gateways of King’s Cross, and were under blue sky. Tunnels… — E.M. Forster Copy Share Image
I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from… — Pierre Choderlos de Laclos Copy Share Image
Regret follows harsh words and only forgiveness can ease the pain of remorse. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Regret is a sad harsh feeling. When you know you could of save something. — Anurag Prakash Ray Copy Share Image
Remorse is virtue's root; its fair increase is fruits of innocence and blessedness. — William C. Bryant Copy Share Image
Remorse ... is one of the many afflictions for which time finds a cure. — Winifred Holtby Copy Share Image
Guilt is a gift from Allah warning you that what you are doing is violating your soul — Nouman Ali Khan Copy Share Image
