Best Remorse Wisdom

263 Remorse quotes by 210 unique authors

A Strange melancholy pervades me to which I hesitate to give the grave and beautiful name of sorrow. The idea of sorrow has always appealed… — Francoise Sagan
A character is defined by the kinds of challenges he cannot walk away from. And by those he has walked away from that cause him… — Arthur Miller
One morning, in cool blood, I slipped a noose about its neck and hung it to the limb of a tree; — hung it with… — Edgar Allan Poe
She'd absolutely adored the library_an entire building where anyone could take things they didn't own and feel no remorse about it. — Ally Carter
When we wallow in guilt, remorse, and shame over real or imagined sins of the past, we are disdaining God's gift of grace. — Brennan Manning
To a man whose mind is free there is something even more intolerable in the sufferings of animals than in the sufferings of man. For… — Romain Rolland
Remorse has no place in a warrior's mind... A war is like a game of chess, Nicholaa. Every battle is like a well-thought-out move on… — Julie Garwood
I am sorry," I whispered. "I am sorry for all of the ways that I failed you. I am sorry that I was not there… — John Connolly
I had learned to dwell with pleasure as a beloved daydream on the thought of the separation of these elements. If each I told myself… — Robert Louis Stevenson
Sometimes a woman's love of being loved gets the better of her conscience, and though she is agonized at the thought of treating a man… — Thomas Hardy
It’s your one last chance,” said Harry, “it’s all you’ve got left. . . .I’ve seen what you’ll be otherwise. . . . Be a… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
Polluted by crimes, and torn by the bitterest remorse, where can I find rest but in death? — Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley
I wish you to know that you have been the last dream of my soul...Since I knew you, I have been troubled by a remorse… — Charles Dickens
The sea can bind us to her many moods, whispering to us by the subtle token of a shadow or a gleam upon the waves,… — H P Lovecraft
So I make no effort to hide my pain. I don’t ever put it all on display like this—but for today and all the rest… — Ann Aguirre
Remorse is the poison of life. — Charlotte Bronte
What’s that poem again?” Will, who had been twirling his empty teacup around his fingers, stood up straight and declaimed: “Each spake words of high… — Cassandra Clare
The critical question about regret is whether experience led to growth and new learning. Some people seem to keep on making the same mistakes, while… — Mary Catherine Bateson
In my terms, I settled for the realities of life, and submitted to its necessities: if this, then that, and so the years passed. In… — Julian Barnes
I am often accused of interfering in the private lives of citizens. Yes, if I did not, had I not done that, we wouldn't be… — Lee Kuan Yew
And no, it wasn't shame I now felt, or guilt, but something rarer in my life and stronger than both: remorse. A feeling which is… — Julian Barnes
I search his eyes for the slightest sign of anything, fear, remorse, anger. But there's only the same look of amusement that ended our last… — Suzanne Collins
I am told that the proximity of punishment arouses real repentance in the criminal and sometimes awakens a feeling of genuine remorse in the most… — Fyodor Dostoevsky
Piscary killed people, but he didn’t have the concept of pity or remorse. It would be like telling a shark he was a bad fish… — Kim Harrison
From the outer edge of his life, looking back, there was only one remorse, and that was only that he wished to go on living. — Ray Bradbury

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