Crime is redeemed by remorse, but not by a blow of the axe or slipknot. Blood has to be washed by tears… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse. — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Remorse is not for the elderly. When it comes to them it is not purging or uplifting, but merely degrading and wretched,… — Christopher Isherwood Copy Share Image
So farewell hope, and with hope farewell fear,Farewell remorse: all good to me is lost;Evil,be thou my good. — John Milton Copy Share Image
There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without… — Gilbert Parker Copy Share Image
“Feeling guilty is not a substitute for loving somebody; it only is an indicator that you have failed to love somebody.” — Clifford Cohen Copy Share Image
Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences. — Francois de La Rochefoucauld Copy Share Image
“,There is never a moonlight night but wicked ideas in evil souls writhe like serpents in nests, and charitable ones sprout lilies… — Italo Calvino 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
“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
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
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 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
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
“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
I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that… — Suzanne Collins Copy Share Image
And this is what I want you to understand, that good, real good, was born out of your father's remorse. Sometimes, I… — Khaled Hosseini Copy Share Image
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each… — Robert Louis Stevenson Copy Share Image
“Holy shadows of the dead, I am not to blame for your cruel and bitter fate, but the accursed rivalry which brought… — Alexander the Great Copy Share Image
“I know how soon youth would fade and bloom perish, if, in the cup of bliss offered, but one dreg of shame,… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“You have to understand that only the very worst end up here: the ones whose anger made them kill, and who felt… — John Connolly Copy Share Image
“A child cannot quarrel with its elders, as I had done, cannot give its furious feelings uncontrolled play, as I had given… — Charlotte Brontë Copy Share Image
“Truly there are different kinds of pain. But the most agonizing is the pain of regret, for which there is no lasting… — Richelle E. Goodrich Copy Share Image
Legalistic remorse says, "I broke God's rules," while real repentance says, "I broke God's heart." — Timothy Keller Copy Share Image
A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil… — Carlos Castaneda Copy Share Image
I'm not perfect, I make mistakes. And I hurt people. But when I say that I am sorry, I mean it. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In luck or out the toil has left its mark: That old perplexity an empty purse, Or the day's vanity, the night's… — William Butler Yeats Copy Share Image
“The last confession he heard was from a young hysterical girl who seemed to him to be making up a chain of… — Morley Callaghan Copy Share Image
“I would rather hurt myself than be hurt by someone else, and so I took up this practice with a sense of… — Alice Hoffman Copy Share Image
Yes, I do have remorse, but I'm not even sure myself whether it is as profound as it should be. I've always… — Jeffrey Dahmer Copy Share Image
I had always wanted to run my own show and focus solely on the writing, and that's what 'Survivor's Remorse' has been… — Mike O'Malley Copy Share Image
“A bouquet yellow like remorse Hurts my view The cage The wheel The vile ennui of all mankind And no one no… — Hélène Baronne d’Oettingen Copy Share Image
Well the first thing I'd say is that I'm not sure exactly what I'm supposed to do to show my remorse other… — Jayson Blair Copy Share Image
“She had shared his sheets, and, in nightmares of remorse, he had shared her body, waking with drastic regret, feeling as soiled… — Barry Hannah Copy Share Image
Forgiveness is possible even when there is no restitution, no remorse on the part of the perpetrator. — Virginia H. Pearce Copy Share Image
“He [Muffat] experienced a sense of pleasure mingled with remorse, the sort of pleasure peculiar to those Catholics whom the fear of… — Émile Zola Copy Share Image
I didn't feel any remorse or sympathy if I injured a rival. I went over the top a few times but I… — Peter Storey Copy Share Image
You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the… — Khalil Gibran Copy Share Image
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