Best Remorse Lines
263 Remorse quotes by 210 unique authors
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Abandon all remorse; On horror's head horrors accumulate.
— William Shakespeare
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They [corporations] feel neither shame, remorse, gratitude, nor goodwill.
— William Hazlitt
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High minds, of native pride and force, Most deeply feel thy pangs, Remorse; Fear, for their scourge, means villains have, Thou art the torturer of…
— Walter Scott
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Not sharp revenge, nor hell itself can find, A fiercer torment than a guilty mind, Which day and night doth dreadfully accuse, Condemns the wretch,…
— John Dryden
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Man, wretched man, whene'er he stoops to sin, Feels, with the act, a strong remorse within.
— Juvenal
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Remorse is as the heart in which it grows; If that be gentle, it drops balmy dews Of true repentance; but if proud and gloomy,…
— Samuel Taylor Coleridge
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Wickedness is a wonderfully diligent architect of misery, of shame, accompanied with terror, and commotion, and remorse, and endless perturbation.
— Plutarch
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There is no man that is knowingly wicked but is guilty to himself; and there is no man that carries guilt about him but he…
— John Tillotson
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There is "a mental fatigue which is a spurious kind of remorse, and has all the anguish of the nobler feeling. It is an utter…
— Mary Elizabeth Braddon
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Remorse is memory awake.
— Emily Dickinson
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Remorse is impotence, impotence which sins again. Repentance alone is powerful; it ends all.
— Honore de Balzac
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Corporate bodies are more corrupt and profligate than individuals, because they have more power to do mischief, and are less amenable to disgrace or punishment.…
— William Hazlitt
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I mean that it is more natural for me to be wicked than virtuous, when I do a bad act, and I've done many, I…
— Louisa May Alcott
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Remorse, the fatal egg that pleasure laid.
— William Cowper
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There is a sacredness in tears. They are not the mark of weakness, but of power. They speak more eloquently than ten thousand tongues. They…
— Washington Irving
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Christian morality prefers remorse to precede lust, and then lust not to follow.
— Karl Kraus
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Show business is the best possible therapy for remorse.
— Anita Loos
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Remorse for what? You people have done everything in the world to me. Doesn't that give me equal right?
— Charles Manson
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There is no refuge from memory and remorse in this world. The spirits of our foolish deeds haunt us, with or without repentance.
— Gilbert Parker
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Mastery is great, but even that is not enough. You have to be able to change course without a bead of sweat, or remorse.
— Tom Peters
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Repentance is not so much remorse for what we have done as the fear of the consequences.
— Francois de La Rochefoucauld
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Never feel remorse for what you have thought about your wife; she has thought much worse things about you.
— Jean Rostand
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Remorse sleeps during prosperity but awakes bitter consciousness during adversity.
— Jean-Jacques Rousseau
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Each life is unique. But for all, repentance will surely include passing through the portal of humble prayer. Our Father in Heaven can allow us…
— Henry B. Eyring
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Remorse is a virtue in that it is a stirrer up of the emotions but it is a folly to accept it is a criticism…
— William Carlos Williams
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