Regret Quote by Nathaniel Hawthorne

“There's a feeling of shame that is more painful than any other in life; it's the shame felt by the victim who is forced…

— Sándor Márai

“I wonder whether certain dreadful events, of the sort this picture is full of, are not so incalculably rich in the possibilities of moral…

— James Agee

“Now the spectacle was before him in its glory, and as he looked out on it he felt shy, old-fashioned, inadequate: a mere grey…

— Edith Wharton

“...he was so horribly unhuman, that one shuddered to think that tender women and fair children must, of necessity, confess to fellowship of kind…

— Marcus Clarke

“Comfort came in and stood with an appearance of guilt and shame. Her head bent, her eyes soaked with tears, her hands and legs,…

— Michael Bassey Johnson

“Inviting fellow human beings to experience beauty teases their souls and allows them, albeit briefly, to see a picture of how things ought to…

— Gabe Lyons

“Gods work! Silence so great it hurts your ears, colour so bright it hurts your staring eyes. A vicious ruined class of man could…

— Sebastian Barry

“There were no mad flashings of the eye, no lunatic grimace passed over his face. He was not out of his mind, which was…

— Patrick Süskind

“Well, you know that was the worst of it - this suspicion of their not being inhuman. It would come slowly to one. They…

— Joseph Conrad

“For the first time, also, I felt what the duties of a creator toward his creature were, and that i ought to render him…

— Mary Shelley

“Our bodies made us shiver in fear and disgust. We looked in the mirror and prepared ourselves to be horrified.”

— Merri Lisa Johnson

“The reaction came when he realized the waste and extravagance involved. He somtimes looked back with awe at the carnivals of affection he had…

— F. Scott Fitzgerald