Anguish Quote by Mary Shelley

“The agonies of remorse poison the luxury there is otherwise sometimes found in the excess of grief.”

— Mary Shelley

“No rest, no peace. Incessant torture of remorse.”

— Charles Dickens

“Where we are from there is no remorse because action has a logical motive and always results in the best outcome for the given…

— Matt Haig

“It is a shame for anyone to be well-known for righteousness. It is a great disgrace to feel distress at the injustice of the…

— Omar Khayyám

“There is no suffering, except remorse, so fatal as that which comes from the consciousness of strangled ambition, blasted hope, stifled aspiration. To be…

— Orison Swett Marden

“In her view when a thing was done, it was done: remorse died with the act.”

— Graham Greene

“Remorse is a heavy burden, but in its weight, it has great power to awaken men's souls.”

— R. William Bennett

“Sorrow for a wrong was better than nothing...but no amount of after-the-fact sorrow could ever atone for joy taken in destruction...”

— Stephen King

“For many years I've been ashamed, mortally ashamed, of having been, even with the best intentions, even at many removes, a murderer in my…

— Albert Camus

“Guilt is a feeble emotion. It surrenders too easily”

— Deborah McKinlay

“And so there’s a struggle, or a contest, I guess you could say, all the time, it seems to me. And remorse, well, to…

— Elizabeth Strout

“The passion fades, the remorse is eternal.”

— Lin Yutang