Remorse Quotes

263 quotes by 216 authors

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
Questions for the lord, why he don't like me, guard my soul, Though my life was hard with no remorse. — Tupac Shakur
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
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
Remorse sleeps during a prosperous period but wakes up in adversity. — Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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
I would far rather feel remorse than know how to define it. — Thomas a Kempis
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
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
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
Good God, if our civilization were to sober up for a couple of days it'd die of remorse on the third. — Malcolm Lowry
Th abuse of greatness is when it disjoins remorse from power. — William Shakespeare
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
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
Melancholy and remorse forms the deep leaden keel which enables us to sail into the wind of reality. — Cyril Connolly
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
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
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
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
Rare is the man who suffers no remorse as he passes from the state of confidant to that of rival. — Honore de Balzac

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