Best Remorse Proverbs
263 Remorse quotes by 210 unique authors
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I shall possess this woman; I shall steal her from the husband who profanes her: I will even dare ravish her from the God whom…
— Pierre Choderlos de Laclos
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Remorse is a terrible thing to bear, Pam, one of the worst of all punishments in this life. To wish undone something you have done,…
— Enid Blyton
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Now that lilacs are in bloom She has a bowl of lilacs in her room And twists one in her fingers while she talks. "Ah,…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Whoever heard of a midwife as a literary heroine? Yet midwifery is the very stuff of drama. Every child is conceived either in love or…
— Jennifer Worth
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Take every gain without showing remorse about missed profits, because an eel may escape sooner than you think.
— James de la Vega
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Be gful to the man who cares nothing for your remorse. You are his equal.
— Rene Char
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Remorse-Regret that one waited so long to do it.
— H. L. Mencken
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For perpetrators, when they apologize and experience remorse, it gives them a chance to reclaim their own humanity. Some rise to the moral challenge. Others…
— Pumla Gobodo-Madikizela
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For my own part I would as soon be descended from that heroic little monkey, who braved his dreaded enemy in order to save the…
— Charles Darwin
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Every journalist who is not too stupid or too full of himself to notice what is going on knows that what he does is morally…
— Janet Malcolm
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There is no telling to what extremes of cruelty and ruthlessness a man will go when he is freed from the fears, hesitations, doubts and…
— Eric Hoffer
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Regret is not a proactive feeling. It is situated in disappointment, sorrow, even remorse. It merely wishes things were different without an act to cause…
— Monica Johnson
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In the Age of the Almighty Computer, drones are the perfect warriors. They kill without remorse, obey without kidding around, and they never reveal the…
— Eduardo Galeano
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Where does guilt and punishment lie, and are we not more expressive over remorse or guilt when other people see the badness in us?
— Joel Edgerton
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Remorse is a violent dyspepsia of the mind.
— Ogden Nash
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I do not feel remorse. Everybody makes mistakes in war.
— Abu Abbas
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Remorse: beholding heaven and feeling hell.
— George A. Moore
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It really is a day job, and it also seems to have virtually disappeared-with no remorse, really. It gives me more time to paint.
— Martin Mull
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It is not the experience of today that drives us mad; it is remorse or bitterness for something which happened yesterday and the dread of…
— Anais Nin
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All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will…
— Ernest Hemingway
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BRANDY, n. A cordial composed of 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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Don't fear failure so much that you refuse to try new things. The saddest summary of a life contains three descriptions: could have, might have,…
— Elbert Hubbard
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We all have ghosts, remorse, dreams, things we love and hate. One day something in life - a word, a phrase, something in a book,…
— Arturo Pérez-Reverte
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I think remorse has the world's highest mortality rate
— Alexander Fennis
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Cheating is like eating fast food. You do it, you enjoy it, and then you end up feeling like shit.
— Ritu Ghatourey
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