Remorse Quotes
263 quotes by 216 authors
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Childhood: the period of human life intermediate between the idiocy of infancy and the folly of youth - two removes from the sin of manhood…
— Ambrose Bierce
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Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse.
— Tupac Shakur
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A warrior doesn't know remorse for anything he has done, because to isolate one's acts as being mean, or ugly, or evil is to place…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Whenever a warrior decides to do something, he must go all the way, but he must take responsibility for what he does. No matter what…
— Carlos Castaneda
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Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Sometimes when we're feeling sad, it's important just to feel the sadness. Like a snake shedding its skin, old feelings of remorse and regret and…
— Marianne Williamson
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I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it.
— Thomas a Kempis
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When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not only by the…
— Cyril Connolly
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In the depths of every heart, there is a tomb and a dungeon, though the lights, the music, and revelry above may cause us to…
— Nathaniel Hawthorne
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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 clarified Satan.
— Ambrose Bierce
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Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third.
— Malcolm Lowry
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Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power.
— William Shakespeare
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It is not the conscience which raises a blush, for a man may sincerely regret some slight fault committed in solitude, or he may suffer…
— Charles Darwin
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What a devil art thou, Poverty! How many desires - how many aspirations after goodness and truth - how many noble thoughts, loving wishes toward…
— Walt Whitman
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Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality.
— Cyril Connolly
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It is only because man believes himself to be free, not because he is free, that he experiences remorse and pricks of conscience.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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You cannot lay remorse upon the innocent nor lift it from the heart of the guilty. Unbidden shall it call in the night, that men…
— Khalil Gibran
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When such as I cast out remorse; So great a sweetness flows into the breast; We must laugh and we must sing, We are blest…
— William Butler Yeats
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It isn't the experience of today that drives men mad. It is the remorse for something that happened yesterday, and the dread of what tomorrow…
— Robert Jones Burdette
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Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival.
— Honore de Balzac
Who Wrote These Remorse Quotes
216 authors contributed a total of 263 Remorse Quotes, led by these top contributors: